linear text objects

occasionally, i read a book (it's become a lost art). interesting reads.

• speed: how it explains the world by vaclav smil
• debt: the first 5000 years by david graeber

from around the internet

the internet is a big place. when i find anything of interest i will link to it.

• dependency cooldowns

  a practical guide to configuring dependency cooldowns across package managers like uv, pip, npm, and cargo to defend against supply chain attacks.

• flat datacenter networks at scale

  james hamilton's article traces how amazon (AWS) replaced the traditional hierarchical fat-tree datacenter network with a random-graph topology called RNG (resilient network graphs).

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