bookmarks

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-13194733

We’re Optimizing Ourselves to Death

…with dots… https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/11/from-1-to-1000000.html

„If you’re on an older version of Android, we recommend you install Firefox Mobile, which supports Android 5.0 and above as of the time of writing. Why does installing Firefox help? For an Android phone’s built-in browser, the list of trusted root certificates comes from the operating system – which is out of date on…

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/09/science/what-makes-sand-soft.html

This text about akka.io is very readable and gives a good motiviation on why to use actor based programming models like akka.io. https://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/current/typed/guide/actors-motivation.html  

Ab Februar 2021 gibt es noch drei Jahre Wartung, dann endet der Support bei on-premises Installationen. https://www.atlassian.com/de/migration/journey-to-cloud  

A Just and Sustainable Internet for All

„10 years ago, interaction with web pages was basically about submitting a long form to the backend and performing simple rendering to the frontend. Apps have evolved to be more real-time: modifying a single form field can automatically trigger a save to the backend, „likes“ to some content can be reflected in real time to…

Another bookmark for myself. Would it make sense to use Akka over RabbitMQ? https://www.rabbitmq.com/getstarted.html „Now when do you use RabbitMQ with Akka? When you need to have the guarantee that your message is delivered to the remote actor. Note that as RabbitMQ uses an at-least-once delivery, your receiving actor must be idempotent or have a…