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interesting reads to consider.

• leave the lights on by elizabeth dunn (liz) & jiaying zhao (jz)
• huge numbers: a story of counting ambitiously, from 4 1/2 to fish 7 by richard elwes
• speed: how it explains the world by vaclav smil
• debt: the first 5000 years by david graeber
• a people's history of the united states by howard zinn

from the net

the internet is a big place. anything of interest will be linked.

• reticulum network

  cryptography-based networking stack for building local and wide-area networks with readily available hardware.

• introducing meerkat

  an experiment in global consensus

• rayfish

  your own private network. no servers, no setup.

• cwtch

  privacy preserving messaging

• 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).

latest posts

rants, raves, and musings from woodland people.

• AI finds a way2026-08-20

  AI agents go for the goal

• inference and you2026-08-04 2026-08-16

  walk blindly into the future with LLM output

• simulacra and simulation in cinema2026-07-14

  mind bending films

• own your domain2026-07-03

  why you should buy and control your own domain name

• dude, where's my asset?2026-06-27

  tracking IT assets for fun and regulation

• scientia potentia est2026-06-18

  could your organization be leaving knowledge on the table when it should be in the base?

• it's DNS, stupid!2026-06-12

  fight the urge to redesign DNS

• welcome to the woods2026-06-11

  mind your step