Varnish was written from the ground up to be a high performance caching reverse proxy. (Caching Proxy Server). Varnish was designed as an HTTP accelerator. Varnish is focused exclusively on HTTP, unlike other proxy servers that often support FTP, SMTP, and other network protocols. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varnish_(software) open-source (more)

PartyKit is an open source deployment platform for AI agents, multiplayer and local-first apps, games and websites... It works well with popular collaboration frameworks and libraries. Y.js, Automerge, Replicache, XState, tldraw, TinyBase, they all Just Work. PartyKit integrates with your current setup. Plays nicely with Vercel, Netlify, AWS, Cloudflare, fly.io, or wherever you host your app. No big rewrite needed. Standards-based: WebSockets, Fetch, Request-Response, Wasm. https://www.partykit.io/ (more)

a written-document story-telling structure different from, say, the Amazon Meeting Memo or PR/FAQ (or a Pattern). “A good story structure contains a Situation, a Complication, a Question and an Answer: SCQA.” (more)

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle - Remote Controlled plane, drone, UAS (more)

Anduril Industries, Inc. is an American defense technology company that specializes in autonomous systems. It was cofounded in 2017 by inventor and entrepreneur Palmer Luckey and others.[3][4] Anduril aims to sell to the U.S. Department of Defense, including artificial intelligence and robotics. Anduril's major products include unmanned aerial systems (UAS) & counter-UAS (CUAS), semi-portable autonomous surveillance systems, and networked command and control software. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anduril_Industries

The Agile Product Development equivalent of Autonomy, Mastery, and Purpose? (more)

Garrett Petersen tweets: If school subjects (curriculum) aren't going to be actually useful, we might as well let the kids spend a decade playing cognitively demanding strategy video games. (more)

NetHack is an open source single-player roguelike video game, first released in 1987 and maintained by the NetHack DevTeam. The game is a fork of the 1984 game Hack, itself inspired by the 1980 game Rogue. The player takes the role of one of several pre-defined character classes to descend through multiple dungeon floors, fighting monsters and collecting treasure, to recover the "Amulet of Yendor" at the lowest floor and then escape... It is identified as one of the "major roguelikes" by John Harris.[8] Comparing it with Rogue, Engadget's Justin Olivetti wrote that it took its exploration aspect and "made it far richer with an encyclopedia of objects, a larger vocabulary, a wealth of pop culture mentions, and a puzzler's attitude."[9] In 2000, Salon described it as "one of the finest gaming experiences the computing world has to offer" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetHack (more)

Si Quan Ong: Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don’t Have All The Facts — Book Notes. Thinking in bets starts with recognizing that there are exactly two things that determine how our lives turn out: the quality of our decisions and luck. Learning to recognize the difference between the two is what thinking in bets is all about. (more)

“Put That There” is a voice and gesture interactive system implemented at the Architecture Machine Group at MIT. It allows a user to build and modify a graphical database on a large format video display. The goal of the research is a simple, conversational interface to sophisticated computer interaction. https://www.media.mit.edu/publications/put-that-there-voice-and-gesture-at-the-graphics-interface/ (more)

DWIM (do what I mean) computer systems attempt to anticipate what users intend to do, correcting trivial errors automatically rather than blindly executing users' explicit but potentially incorrect input. The term was coined by Warren Teitelman in his DWIM package for BBN Lisp, part of his PILOT system, sometime before 1966. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DWIM

EnCalming technology, aka calm tech

I hadn't realized that Mark Weiser, the honcho behind the "EnCalming Technology" meme, had died in 1999.

a bundle of code which involves AI and can take independent action (agency)

Calculus is the mathematical study of change, in the same way that geometry is the study of shape and algebra is the study of operations and their application to solving equations. It has two major branches, differential calculus (concerning rates of change and slopes of curves),[1] and integral calculus (concerning accumulation of quantities and the areas under and between curves);[2] these two branches are related to each other by the fundamental theorem of calculus. Both branches make use of the fundamental notions of convergence of infinite sequences and infinite series to a well-defined limit. Generally, modern calculus is considered to have been developed in the 17th century by Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibniz. Today, calculus has widespread uses in science, engineering and economics and can solve many problems that Algebra alone cannot. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calculus (mathematics)

gateway drugs to Engineering (more)

Mathematics is a field of study that discovers and organizes methods, theories, and theorems that are developed and proved for the needs of empirical sciences and mathematics itself. There are many areas of mathematics, which include number theory (the study of numbers), algebra (the study of formulas and related structures), geometry (the study of shapes and spaces that contain them), analysis (the study of continuous changes), and set theory (presently used as a foundation for all mathematics). Mathematics involves the description and manipulation of abstract objects that consist of either abstractions from nature or—in modern mathematics—purely abstract entities that are stipulated to have certain properties, called axioms. Mathematics uses pure reason to prove the properties of objects through proofs, which consist of a succession of applications of deductive rules to already established results. These results, called theorems, include previously proved theorems, axioms, and—in case of abstraction from nature—some basic properties that are considered true starting points of the theory under consideration. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematics

Intermediate Mathematics (more)

Alexander Grothendieck, later Alexandre Grothendieck in French (/ˈɡroʊtəndiːk/; German: [ˌalɛˈksandɐ ˈɡʁoːtn̩ˌdiːk] ⓘ; French: [ɡʁɔtɛndik]; 28 March 1928 – 13 November 2014), was a German-born French mathematician who became the leading figure in the creation of modern algebraic geometry.[7][8] His research extended the scope of the field and added elements of commutative algebra, homological algebra, sheaf theory, and category theory to its foundations, while his so-called "relative" perspective led to revolutionary advances in many areas of pure mathematics.[7][9] He is considered by many to be the greatest mathematician of the twentieth century. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Grothendieck

Matt Webb: Spinning up a new thing: Inanimate. I’m spinning up something new with a buddy and you can guess what it is by what I’ve been writing about recently. (more)