Lego's new Architecture Studio set (#21050) looks like a lot of fun. You can download a 400 MB PDF of the instruction booklet to see what you'll be getting into.
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Jun 20th: A great post from Ozan Onay on choosing the right solutions for the problem at hand. Distributed systems always seems like an exciting solution to any size of problem.
Lego's new Architecture Studio set (#21050) looks like a lot of fun. You can download a 400 MB PDF of the instruction booklet to see what you'll be getting into.
Found via jeffrey
Apr 1st: This review of Doom 3's source release is full of tons of interesting stuff, even for non-graphics programmers. [via waferbaby]
12 factor app says a lot of good things that i agree with, but the server-process model rule is odd. there doesn't seem to be an obvious reason why the php/apache/processes model is wrong, but it's not allowed. uh?
codahale on cap, harvest and yield. everyone designing distributed systems should read this
ooh, the why yachts are now really for sale. i'll take a dozen
nice piece from mark at joyent about the dangers of abstraction
it's true - sci-fi corridors are fascinating
an excellent description of the applied CAP theorem and thinking about systems design in terms of yield/harvest
cameron's house is for sale. car not included, presumably
some really nice bizarre building designs over on toxel today
frank lloyd wright lego is more than a little pretentious, but i kinda want it
super micro home - did i link this forever-ago? couldn't find it
high scalability seems like a reasonable collection of arch articles and details.
the new songdo city project looks really interesting - if you build a new city from scratch, can you improve on what we already have, or does it become a souless business park? [via jc]
angermann2 is my new favorite weblog. architecture, cartography and bold design.
random images from the flickr-stream: fractal architecture. anyone know where this it?
This is the personal website of Cal Henderson, Slack co-founder & CTO.
I give occasional talks, write code and sometimes articles.
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