🌶️ Hot Fudge Sunday for 2024-10-06
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💸 + 🍎 Indeed. Someone else (allegedly) decided not to participate.
https://www.techmeme.com/240927/p27#a240927p27
🤪 Wacky Wednesday for 2024-10-02
Each Wednesday I go through dozens of Slack communities.
I then select the most interesting shared links.
This will always be a safe for work list. 🙈
https://mastodon.social/@jed/113188486301399132
https://social.panic.com/@cabel/113194508320034780
https://hub.jhu.edu/magazine/2024/summer/bacteria-bonnie-bassler/
https://www.sapiens.org/archaeology/archaeology-dogs/
🔙 Throwback Thursday for 2024-10-03
21 years ago, WordPress was released and would go on to power hundreds of millions of websites. In fact, WordPress powered my own blog(s) and personal websites for many years before I migrated to headless CMS alternatives.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WordPress
In the years since, WordPress usage has grown considerably as has Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com and other related companies offering WordPress services. And lately… things are getting a bit more dramatic.
https://www.techmeme.com/241002/p38#a241002p38
✅ Final Thoughts Friday for 2024-10-04
Travel changes this week mean I am still updating my AI Field Day 5 delegate notes that sit in my drafts pile to be published. Due to the travel changes, I also missed out on Monktoberfest (again!) but I am thankful for the amazing organizers that helped me find a way to give back in my absence.
Two big numbers stories that caught me eye this week:
For perspective, 3.8 Tbps is Terabits per second per second (i.e. trillions)… and is equivalent of fully saturating a 32 port 100G Ethernet LAN switch with traffic… and then adding even more traffic on top… but now, imagine that traffic flowing over the Internet to one place every second. My math might be off but that’s like sending two dozen compressed text copies of Wikipedia… every second… or if you double-side printed the compressed text copies of Wikipedia as wartime payload… that would be like three Iowa-class battleships firing those Wikipedias — every second. 🤯
I’ve written about Poolside before and $500M is a staggering Series B raise for the very precise focus their leadership has shared publicly. 🤯
https://www.techmeme.com/241004/p14#a241004p14
https://www.techmeme.com/241002/p26#a241002p26
🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2024-10-05
By Friday, everything seems to be reaching the peak of getting news turned in before a deadline or dread-line. It sometimes seems like we reach a fever pitch in news coverage throughout the week.
Peak 🏔️ vs. Peek 👀
Then there is a trope, cliché, or bromide about slow news days and the quietly mentioned news updates sent on a Friday — to try and sneak it past wider coverage. Or, in a nutshell, peak patronizing publishing.
In that spirit, here are a few stories that you might have missed on the slow news of a Friday.
Insert Let's See Who This Really Is Meme
https://www.techmeme.com/241004/p15#a241004p15
Insert Ceiling Cat Meme
https://www.techmeme.com/241004/p19#a241004p19
Insert We're All Trying To Find The Guy Who Did This Meme
https://www.techmeme.com/241004/p4#a241004p4
Insert That Wasn't Me, That Was Patricia Meme
https://www.techmeme.com/241004/p2#a241004p2
Insert Anthony Adams Rubbing Hands Meme
https://www.techmeme.com/241004/p17#a241004p17
