Backlinks 2021-06-21 column, maintained by Roman Atachiants, is a “High-performance, columnar, in-memory store with bitmap indexing in Go”. Deciding how to store data in memory can be tricky, depending on requirements. Sometimes you don’t need a full Database, but want something more than just …

internet-in-a-box Internet-In-A-Box brings together quality content from Khan Academy, Wikipedia and more into a variety of inexpensive hotspot+harddrive packages. Code snippet managers Over at Macdrifter, Gabe looked at code snippet managers this week. At this point, I can’t really imagine using a standalone …

Gently Down the Stream Mitch Seymour’s Gently Down the Stream is an illustrated, children’s-book-style guide to Apache Kafka.

Backlinks 2021-06-17 Mitch Seymour’s Gently Down the Stream is an illustrated, children’s-book-style guide to Apache Kafka.

How big are emojis? In Bear plus snowflake equals polar bear, Andy Salerno gets into how many bytes various emoji take up, and the results can be surprising! Image mosaics with polyfoto shanedrabin/polyfoto lets you recreate an image with a collection of other images.

The Delta variant is a cause for concern UCSF Dept. of Medicine Chair Bob Wachter has a thread about the Delta variant of COVID-19 and how it seems to have as much an increase in infectiousness over Alpha as Alpha did over the original. He stresses the importance of getting vaxxed now.

Virtually all hospitalized Covid patients are unvaccinated Granted, this article about how nearly all hospitalized COVID-19 patients are unvaccinated contains no stats, the anecdotes they give are from hospital administrators who saw what things looked like at the worst and are now seeing the improvement. So you want …

Backlinks 2021-06-13 Ed2592 Press has a mini-book online So You Want to Write a Book that covers their Publishing process. It’s nice that they provide this sort of documentation for their authors. My Publishing For Tech book touches a bit on the difference between working with a traditional publisher and being …

The pretend code at developer.bbc.com is user-editable Via Hacker News, Andrew Taylor tweeted about something silly he did that still makes him laugh. He made the code on the BBC Developer Portal user-editable and it’s a really cool effect. Feels like you’re editing the stock photo.

Dealing with flat Earthers I find it hard to believe that people who believe the Earth is flat really exist in substantial numbers today, and yet here is someone who deals with them on a near-daily basis as they meet up at their mobile planetarium. Their thread on how they deal with them is great and likely applicable …