It’s so weird that even with this World Cup’s expanded field, China and India still didn’t qualify, despite having the world’s largest populations by far.
Maybe football isn’t historically as important for them, at least within their own countries?
We were lucky to catch Elim Chan’s debut at SF Symphony last Fri after she was named the next music director, and it was really special. She said she felt humbled and grateful at taking on the role, and she exuded a really direct, open, youthful energy.
She conducted La Mer, one of my favorite orchestral pieces, and one I’ve probably heard the SF Symphony play a dozen times. She also conducted Sascha Cooke, a long time collaborator of MTT’s, and they had a pretty emotional passing-the-torch moment in his memory. Everyone felt his presence, and his blessing, so strongly.
No one can replace MTT, of course, and I’m still pretty heartbroken that we couldn’t keep Esa-Pekka, but Chan seems poised to bring on a new era. Can’t wait for the 27-28 season!
The Great Supply Chain Security Paradox:
“every open source lib is getting owned! wait at least a week to patch, let other people find the supply chain breaches before you”
“AI is reversing all these patches, the window to exploit is down to just hours now, patch your shit immediately!”
🧐
(Credit to James Wilson and Brad Arkin. Threat intel feeds may be the answer, eg Sentinel One, Checkmarx, Socket, etc. Somehow we came full circle back around to antivirus!)
Scott Werner: The Wizard With the Very Defensible Pond
There was once a wizard who lived beside a pond. It was a small pond. The sort of pond that probably gets called a “water feature” on a Zillow listing by a real estate agent who really knows their euphemisms…
My Google account is heaven@gmail (long story), so I get a steady trickle of emails from people writing to God. Some of them are real winners.
Consider the world’s simplest database:
#!/bin/bash db_set () { echo "$1,$2" >> database } db_get () { grep "^$1," database | sed -e "s/^$1,//" | tail -n 1 }
– Designing Data-Intensive Applications, 2nd edition, Martin Kleppmann and Chris Riccomini
I’ve been a daily coffee drinker for decades, and I’m taking a break for a month right now. No real reason, just trying it.
Halfway through, not much to report. One mild headache early on. No noticeable difference in energy. (I’m pretty insensitive to caffeine.)
I definitely still miss it though!