what i've been reading (51)
Corporate values, seo, vision pro, and sleeping
Even Amazon can’t make sense of microservices (primary source)
We’re gonna break [the monolith] up and somehow find the engineering discipline we never had in the first place... Now you went from writing bad code to building bad infrastructure.
But, in the case that you forget everything else. Or in the case that we’ve got it wrong, let’s get one thing right. At least for the time being and while we can, let’s make them feel something… It’s all anyone remembers anyway.
Once you find that spot — the right set of features, the right flows, the right yesses and the right no's, you stop. That's v1. Once you find the balance, you aim to stay in balance. Adding more, but in a balanced way to maintain the form, to keep the center. To hold steady.
The net result is that the Vision Pro, at least in its current incarnation, does not come close to being the productivity tool I was so excited about last summer, when I wrote that I suspected the Vision Pro was “the future of the Mac”, and that’s even before getting to the limitations of Apple’s iOS-based operating system in terms of app capabilities and business models. That latter point, along with the limitations of eye-tracking as a default user-interface model, also makes me worry that new and better hardware won’t change this reality.
If you’re a regular reader of The Verge, you might have noticed some changes to our author bylines in recent months: they’re a lot longer, with more details, name-dropping, and quantifying our professional experiences. You can thank Google for that.
The forgotten medieval habit of ‘two sleeps’
In her testimony, Jane describes how just before the men arrived at their home, she and her mother had arisen from their first sleep of the evening. There was no further explanation – the interrupted sleep was just stated matter-of-factly, as if it were entirely unremarkable. "She referred to it as though it was utterly normal," says Ekirch.
Vesuvius Challenge Prizes Awarded
Scholars might call it a philosophical treatise. But it seems familiar to us, and we can’t escape the feeling that the first text we’ve uncovered is a 2000-year-old blog post about how to enjoy life.
Vision Pro: Why the eyes look weird (teardown)
It turns out that when the EyeSight displays your eyes, it isn’t just displaying a single video feed of your eyes; it’s showing a bunch of videos of your eyes. Exploring inside the glass shell, we found three layers for the front-facing display: a widening layer, a lenticular layer, and the OLED display itself.
Founder of Github is banned from Github
Banned from GitHub without any explanation. Guess I'm moving all my code to BitBucket.
Mini Room Behind Electrical Outlet
