Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.
Happy 10th Birthday, Bridgy!
Today marks 10 years to the day since I first launched Bridgy, my little IndieWeb side project to connect social networks and personal websites. Happy Birthday, Bridgy!
I’ve always loved the internet, but I’m not a Very Online person, exactly. I don’t really hang out there. I didn’t fall in love with the people, or the community; I fell in love with the network. The physical reality of packed switched routing, the awkward unlikely miracle of a bunch of computers – rocks we flattened and jammed lightning into – talking to each other. Interacting. Just a few at first, here and there, but gradually more and more, on long strings of copper underground and hung on wooden poles and finally across entire oceans, until they circled the globe in a single, all-encompassing internet. Kind of amazing. Continue reading
Confession: I didn’t learn either of the two reasons to use a bathroom vent until I was in my mid 20s or so. 🤷
…the total outcome of NATs is to increase the available address capacity in IPv4 from 4 billion endpoints (232) to some 1,000 trillion endpoints (250). …the usable address capacity in IPv6 is somewhere between 49 bits and 58 bits. This conclusion points to the observation that the overall carrying capacity of IPv6 is not all that different from that of a dense IPv4 deployment making highly efficient use of NATs.
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– Geoff Huston, IPv4 Address Markets (emphasis mine)
Threw in the towel on #AdventOfCode for the season. First time doing it, had a ball, and in silly languages too! Bash, SQL, Emacs Lisp, Prolog. But the volume got to be too much, especially during the holidays. Maybe 1/4 as much would have been perfect. Ah well!
Odd bit of lyrics from Do You Hear What I Hear?:
A Child, a Child shivers in the cold
Let us bring Him silver and gold
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