Musings on Fermi's Paradox, Learning, Evolution

In the words of wikipedia, Fermi’s paradox:The Fermi paradox is the discrepancy between the lack of conclusive evidence of advanced extraterrestrial life and the apparently high likelihood of its…

Destroying Viruses with Far UV light

Once feelings and reasoning calmed down a little bit after the COVID pandemic, one is left with the knowledge that we’re doing a pretty poor job with the accelerating evolution of Viruses. Why…

m3u8, HLS, clear key encryption, iPhones...oh my!

Azure Media Services is EOLIf you visit their online presence as a pristine (and naive) user, you don’t even get a hint on the fact that Azure Media Services is being discontinued. We were using said…

AI as an attempt to play the endgame of capitalism

Today I saw a video from Rick Beato, whom I follow for his interview with interesting musicians, and his takes at checking out Spotify’s top-ten streaming charts.Tl;Dr; The video will present you with…

Men that burn the planet

I came across this post by Christian Stöcker.I am extremely tired by the oil industry. They’re killing us by killing the planet.An industry that bought Tram companies in US cities in order to close…

React blunders: close over objects

To recap the last post - one issue this combination of components faces is that the asynchronous upload method closed over functions which in turn closed over state that gets stale over time.There is…

React blunders: Stale, staler, Function components

Lately I’ve seen a few posts that have critiqued react for being a pretty complex thing. After having worked intensely with react for more than 5 years I would certainly attest to the honeymoon being…

Handling Server-Sent Events with javascript

Now that we’re sending out events, I could point you to the Mozilla pages that explain how the EventSource instance is to be used and call it a day. However, in the year 2023 I don’t find the use of…

Server-Sent Events with dotnet 7

Server-Sent Events (SSE) is an interesting extension of a HTTP response that generalizes rules on how to send responses down an open connection to the client and a javascript API on how to consume…