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Skopje is going to get a commuter rail service! Zelenikovo - Skopje! This year! The tracks are being repaired. That bit - from Minister of Transport Aleksandar Nikoloski - might be true. The problem is that to run a train service you,...
By and large, digital systems consist of two different parts: data and information. This website, takuti.me, for example, is composed of a combination of numbers, text, images, and links. They exist in the digital world as data, which...
The NHS is preparing to close nearly all of its Open Source repositories. Throughout my time working for the UK Government - in GDS, NHSX, i.AI, and others - I championed Open Source. I spoke to dozens of departments about it, wrote...
Experimenting
Vincent launching Build with Micro.blog of course gave me a gazillion ideas. First out, a bookshelf for my Bear blog. ✏️
Because of continental drift, the ground beneath your feet has occupied a different position on the Earth over the ages. Paleolatitude is a tool that shows the latitude of every location on earth was since… More
Communications of the ACM had a fascinating post about how NASA built Artemis II’s fault tolerant computer. 3 fascinating excerpts. (1) Eight modules with several back up scenarios: “Orion utilizes two Vehicle Management Computers, each...
Comics Curmudgeon readers! Do you love this blog and yearn for a novel written by its creator? Well, good news: Josh Fruhlinger's The Enthusiast is that novel! It's even about newspaper comic strips, partly. Check it out! The Phantom,...
This is gonna sound old man and “back in my day” but I genuinely long for the days of brevity. I remember not that long ago when you’d read a post, doc, or pull request and it would be like a few sentences or paragraphs, and that would...