Chris F. Carroll @chrisfcarroll@qoto.org

Diagrams for software architecture is so passé, the future is moving gifs

There is no bug that cannot be made more difficult to debug by adding another layer of indirection

Small steps
https://www.wired.com/2001/10/slugbot-enemy-of-slugs/

TIL that the HTML spec has a section about forgiving base64.

https://infra.spec.whatwg.org/#forgiving-base64

Probably the funniest thing I've seen on microservices.

https://www.slideshare.net/jeppec/event-driven-architecture-integration-tech-event-2019#3

Are cosmic ray bit-flips common enough to make voting machines unfit for purpose? The smaller the electronics, the less energy a bit flip takes. Nice discussion of bitflip examples:
https://radiolab.org/podcast/bit-flip/transcript

Was the real value of OO that it was/is a good vehicle for Responsibility Driven Design?

It is easy to code Roles, Responsibilities, Collaboration and Contracts in OO languages.