Author Archives: Bojan Bjelić
Encounter: Kevin Kelly – 103 Bits of Advice I Wish I Had Known
Book review: Slaughterhouse-Five
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. My rating: 5 of 5 stars A strange, emotional journey through lifetime of an anti-hero, describing his (and Vonnegut’s) experience of WW2. The experience is further elaborated by the time jumps to different life defining events he is experiencing. Death is inevitable, but horrors of war and meaningless violence are …
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Book review: The Kaiju Preservation Society
The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi My rating: 5 of 5 stars A fun book, very positive and entertaining. View all my reviews
Book review: Walkaway
Walkaway by Cory Doctorow My rating: 4 of 5 stars Interesting ideas, inconsistent writing. Probably very hard to read for non-technical (IT) people. View all my reviews
Encounter: datasette
An open source multi-tool for exploring and publishing data Datasette is a tool for exploring and publishing data. It helps people take data of any shape or size and publish that as an interactive, explorable website and accompanying API.
Encounter: dynamicland.org
I’ve seen this before, and find it truly inspiring and innovative, so I wanted to log it here. “A communal computer.”
Current stream of thought: revenues vs. market cap
The financials here make absolutely no sense to me, and this is only an example of the current state of (US) economy? Zoom market cap is currently close to $107 billion, and it announced on July 18. 2021 that it’s acquiring Five9 for $14.7 billion in stock. Meanwhile, Zoom reported net income of $7.6 million …
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ArchiveBox: Open-source self-hosted web archiving.
https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox ArchiveBox is a powerful, self-hosted internet archiving solution to collect, save, and view sites you want to preserve offline. You can set it up as a command-line tool, web app, and desktop app (alpha), on Linux, macOS, and Windows. You can feed it URLs one at a time, or schedule regular imports from browser …
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