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Daniel Caesar returned to Tiny Desk this week 😌
Also worth revisiting his first appearance from 2018: https://youtu.be/PBKa-AAy_vo
Hidden in storage, a University of Utah research associate happened upon the only known copy of this ‘revolutionary’ software
Stories like this revitalize my love for computing PLUS it’s great seeing the Flux research group highlighted 🫶.
One way to tell a weak engineer in a discussion thread about some problem is to see who is bringing in specific facts about how the system currently works, and who is making purely general recommendations that could apply to any system. If their messages could all be public tweets, they’re probably not adding much value.
A cool reminder that Let’s Encrypt, Divvi Up, and Prossimo are all run by the same org.