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- Open Source Quality Institutes · ongoing by Tim Bray
Bray correctly framing that Open-Source software has been hugely beneficial to all but that the XZ attach shows a clear weakness. A weakness he suggests government could help…
- Global Sensor Bandwidth · ongoing by Tim Bray
I had not heard about this new Sony Alpha9 III nor had I heard of the term "global shutter". These things advertise that they read all the pixels off the sensor at once. So, no…
- On C2PA · ongoing by Tim Bray
This article caught my eye for three reasons: Leica, Digital Signatures, and Tim Bray. Many have commented and worried about how we can trust any photos in the future now that…
- ongoing by Tim Bray · Fediverse Governance
- Easy Cameras — ongoing by Tim Bray
When I carry my Leica Q2 I’m reminded of this — it is just much faster to grab it and get a shot than my iPhone. Also, the photo is immensely better.
- Amazon Q4 2022 Financials • ongoing by Tim Bray
Bray used to work at AWS, and is not a financial analyst, but is a very smart developer. Amazon as a whole isn’t really very profitable. Its retail sector loses money, and that…
- Privacy Is OK
- Protect Me From What I Want • ongoing by Tim Bray
Bray offers an optimisic perspective on using algorithms to display content to people, however with a very huge caveat. I have added the bold. An algorithm is not intrinsically…
- Just Don’t
This essay from Bray totally resonated with me. And I catch myself using "just" plenty enough as well, in cases that are not helpful. "Just install Foo, and then configure your…
- Field-Value Automata
Great essay, really for programmers, on optimizing a specific high-volume use case. When I introduced Quamina , I described the core trick: You prepare an arbitrary JSON blob for…
- Get Computer Glasses
I've had to wear reading glasses for a couple of years now when I work on the computer. I thought the only variant with computer glasses was blocking blue light, but Bray…
- Lock-in and Multi-Cloud
Bray does a great job highlighting the various approaches to cloud and lock-in. I was curious if his thinking mirrored mine, and it does, with some nuance. You can decide you’re…
- URI-based Integration — ongoing by Tim Bray
Bray was involved in the creation of AWS Lambda, and I love this story about the use of URI's in the system. But to be honest, all of that comes more or less for free once you…
- Amazon Q1 2021 — ongoing by Tim Bray
Blogger and Engineer Tim Bray playing stock analyst in his spare time. His perspective is notable as he is the high-profile engineer that left AWS due to labor matters. Amazon’s…
- ongoing by Tim Bray · Recent Code
I like how reading this you can hear how clearly Bray loves the act of coding. Old-school it may be, but I’m learning cool new Java things like postmodern switch because IntelliJ…
- Jassy Talking Points - Tim Bray
I’m a fan of Tim Bray's writing and while so much was written about Andy Jassy taking over at the helm of Amazon I enjoyed reading Bray's perspective. He highlighted one point I…
- Workflows in AWS and GCP — Tim Bray
Tim Bray is probably one of the most authoritative people there are to write on the new Google Cloud Workflows. He designed much of AWS Step Functions after all. This is a good…
- ongoing by Tim Bray · Not an Amazon Problem
- Meta Blog —Tim Bray
Last week I linked to Bray's post on leaving Amazon . Here he reflects on what he saw on his blog from his. But aren’t blogs dead? Um, nope. For every discipline-with-depth that I…
- ongoing by Tim Bray · Bye, Amazon
I have followed Tim Bray’s blog for years. I enjoy his writing, and have also enjoyed the things he has shared about AWS services he has been working on since joining Amazon. It…
- ongoing by Tim Bray · Eventing Facets
The table at the end of this is a great resource to find an eventing system that meets the needs of your solution.
- ongoing by Tim Bray · Go Creeping In
I can echo this observation as well, Go seems to be making slow but steady progress and winning over many engineers as they build solutions.
- ongoing by Tim Bray · On SQS
Bray knows a lot about writing great software, and I like his rounded view on queues. The proportion of services I work on where queues are absolutely necessary rounds to 100%.…
- ongoing by Tim Bray · Tech Office Sketches
State of the technology company environments from Tim Bray.
- Oil Fail - ongoing by Tim Bray
Interesting post that reminded me of Sustainable Energy Without the Hot Air , a book my book club read a while back. Both that one and this Oil Fail book sound interesting.
- ongoing by Tim Bray · SF-5: Serverless Bills?
More thoughts on Serverless architectures, this time on costs. Bray's point is valid, the solution may have as much, if not more, impact on cost than the deployment model.
- ongoing by Tim Bray · SF-4: Serverless Latency?
Tim Bray's entire set of essays on Serverless are fabulous. He's incredible knowledgable in this domain. This one on latency I thought was particularly informative to help the…
- Tim Bray · Post-REST
Thoughts from Tim Bray on the points of evolution for API transports on the web. I like the depth of history Bray brings to this. 😎
- ongoing by Tim Bray · On Cash
I like Bray's perspective on cash here. I tend to still pay for most of my routine, small purchases with cash. I'd add to his list of reasons the fact that as we move from real…
- ongoing by Tim Bray · Unapocalyptic Software
I love this writeup by Tim Bray on what software development is actually like. It’s like this: You sit down to improve a piece of software, make a couple of changes, and…
- You Might Be Evil —Tim Bray
Tim Bray catching on a number of articles that I've also seen. When I read articles like this I can’t help but going back to the root of things and reminding everyone that there…
- ongoing by Tim Bray · Enlightenment Technology
A very complicated review of a book on the origins of our modern growth focus. This book sounds daunting to read, and I’m not a great reader. But the concepts and topic sound…
- ongoing by Tim Bray · Bye, Rune
A very nice and thoughtful write up from Tim Bray on his cat Rune that recently passed away.
- ongoing by Tim Bray · 2017 Camera News
- Geek Career Paths —Tim Bray “Suppose you’re doing technology, and like doing technology, and your career’s going well, and you find yourself wondering what you’re going to be doing in twenty years.”
- ongoing by Tim Bray · Validating State Machines
- ongoing by Tim Bray · On the Left
I have a problem lately: When I look in the mirror, I see a left-wing extremist. I’m uneasy about my strengthening belief that Free Enterprise is gonna ruin…
- Specifying JSON —Tim Bray “I find myself tasked with polishing and publishing a little custom JSON-encoded language. It’s harder than it ought to be.”
If it looks like a document, use XML. If it looks like an object, use JSON. It’s that simple. The essential difference isn’t simplicity/complexity or compact/verbose or…
- Tim Bray · “Photographer”?
Everyone takes pictures everywhere now, 24/7/365. So does “photographer”, in the amateur sense, still mean anything? I have pictures and questions that say it does.
- Serverlessness
But you do still have to have those arguments about operating systems, and how much memory, and the load-balancing setup, and how many servers in the rack. Except maybe…
- Modern Corporate English
These growths on English’s not-so-fair face are harvested from the hallways and meeting rooms of North American high-tech, which is after all renowned for its…
- ongoing by Tim Bray · Mobile Counter-theses
This is in response to 16 mobile theses by Benedict Evans of Andreesen Horowitz, a firm that’s central to Bay Area VC culture. I think the theses are about half wrong.
- re:Invent in Vegas
That was intense. AWS’s customers are great. But I wish I could like Vegas more. Size matters · There were 19,000 people, more or less, at the…
- Keybase.io - Tim Bray
Ive been fooling around with this for the last couple of days; you can find me at keybase.io/timbray. I think it might be pointing a useful way forward on private-by-default…
- Software in 2014 by Tim Bray
Were at an inflection point in the practice of constructing software. Our tools are good, our server developers are happy, but when it comes to building client-side software, we…
- Whos Watching You?
Worried about being watched? Me too. So whos doing it, and why, and what can they see, and what can you do about it?
- Dont Change Your Hair For Me
There are certain objects whose design is finished: the violin, the little black dress, the hammer, and nigiri sushi; complete unto their purpose. Certain aspects of the…
- A New HTTP Status Code for Legally-restricted Resources
This seems like a good idea to me. Would be useful to tell people when censorship is occurring as well. This document specifies an additional Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)…
- Reshaping
For the first time in years, I’m working on changing the look of this here blog. I’ve been bored with it in recent years, then Blaine Cook’s Beautiful Lines pushed me over the…
- Things about Blogging
In preparation for the event, I thought I’d jot down some helpful tips and tricks, and in no time at all I had more than twenty. I ran through them real fast in the hope of…
- What Android Is
- Three Mobile-Software Rules
These days, I spend quite a bit of time talking about how to write software for Android. I think three of the general rules are worth expanding on here because I’m increasingly…
- On Books
Until this month, I’d never even glanced at an e-book. Now I’ve read three and can’t stop thinking about where this is going.
- Tim Bray - Better Feed Reading