You type “good” and macOS helpfully pops up a thumbs-up emoji suggestion. You type “love” and a heart appears, uninvited, hovering over your cursor. Trying to get to the actual emoji you want to use…

This cartoon by Tom Toro is an absolute classic, and it really keeps growing on you. Indeed, for a teeny, tiny moment we had so much shareholder value!Three children sit around a small campfire in…

I have seen this quote go round here & there, and I simply want to recreate what appears to be a comment from Frank Wilhoit on a post from 2018, just in case it goes away for whatever reason (the blog…

I sort of sit in a bubble on Mastodon where most people are heavily opposed to the current incarnation of AI: LLM-based technology.I absolutely get it, while many would disagree, I share many values…

I saw today in a post that Carl Sagan’s Cosmos has been made available on archive.org.This show is about 45 years old and left a huge impression on me as a child. The narrator is Carl Sagan, to me one…

I am not ready yet to form coherent thoughts on AI, or rather, the subject has an almost unfortunate depth as companies with a near-infinite war chest are pouring billions upon billions of cash into…

Time to look at what may be by far the most exotic technology choice in ahead: The use of a graph database in the form of the gremlin endpoint provided by Cosmos.Graph view of Aspire-registered…

Let’s take a short break from looking at service replacements and marvel at the fun that is having good OpenTelemetry data.When we started ahead many years, OpenTelemetry didn’t exist yet. Aspire…

Time to look at the second messaging pattern. A message can have the notion of an event, where you want several systems to be notified.RabbitMQ’s approach here is to declare an Exchange. Every…

Sending messages between processes is an ubiquitous pattern that has been in use for many decades - as such, the available alternatives are plenty.In the past I have only heard good things about…