links, etc Extracting the Essential Simplicity of the Internet | Communications of the ACM a tribute to worse is better engineering and studied underspecification. seriously though, a little bit of retrospective analysis on the beauty in the simplicity of the internet’s “design”. the underspecification and ability to work over any link type really was a master stroke.
links, etc “No matter how you cut it, you’ve got to own Cisco” (2000) - The Big Picture there’s so much to love, learn, laugh, and cry at, in this article (my attempt at a riff on the old cisco, “changing the way the world lives, learns, works and plays” tagline). i joined cisco in late 2000 and never saw those initial options issued to me upon signing up become worth anything....
links, etc Crypto Winter 2022 Cost Bitcoin ($BTC) Holders More Than Cash archive.is link at its most basic, crypto does resemble a cult. i supposed that at this point in the arc of capitalism it shouldn’t be surprising to me that we have a financialization cults. i don’t know if this has ever really been a thing before. i suspect the evangelical prosperity gospel comes reasonably close here. either way, this bit was particularly on point:...
links, etc New York’s Most Inventive Pizzas Are Cooked Up at Pop-Ups - The New York Times these folks are living the dream. the pizza pop ups dream to be specific. but what i really want to know is … where’s the roccbox? i mean i see the greatest pizza peel in the pictures, but no love for the roccbox or the dome? i mean the roccbox got the whole portable pizza oven party started....