not all containers are made equal

So if you want to give another spin to your container knowledge, you know there are a few projects that relate to containers and are not just docker.

- https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/systemd-nspawn
- https://voidlinux.org/news/2017/12/advent-containers.html
- https://www.infoq.com/articles/containers-hypervisors-2019/
- https://github.com/p8952/bocker
- https://dev.to/napicella/containers-from-scratch-in-18-lines-of-code-3pmn
- https://ericchiang.github.io/post/containers-from-scratch/
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15608435
- https://www.ardanlabs.com/blog/2020/02/docker-images-part1-reducing-image-size.html

And here is a cool 'build-your-own-docker' talk

Larry Tesler RIP, Bert Sutherland RIP

Very sad week for our field. Two great great great pioneers on the computer science, human-computer-interface, and thought advancing concepts left the analogic world.

There are a bunch of stories in these HN links:

• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22361282
• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22370667

Transitive closure in k, and more

I found this gist on finding reachable nodes in a graph super entertaining. Every time I read on APL/J/K I feel this intense deep puzzle solving that heats my brain a little bit, but feels awesome when you arrive at the end. And it all makes sense there.

About 10 years ago I was having those feelings with the Shwartzian transform and JAPHs around the net.  Perl is the gateway drug.



Btw, if you want some more, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7Mt0GYHU9A or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzPd3umu78g .

spicing up your prompt

I've been using this very silly overloading of the prompt for some time, and even though it's dead simple, it gets to cheer me up sometimes.

On every emacs startup, and every 24 hours, you get  a different message on your prompt when 'm-x'.

Happy hacking,