A twitter call to say nice things about technology sparked interesting threads
Posted by jpluimers on 2022/05/27
A while ago [Archive.is] Adam Jacob on Twitter: “Let’s say nice things about technology today. I’ll start. If it wasn’t for @lkanies and @puppetize, there is no way we would have been able to adapt as an industry to the rise of the cloud. Quote tweet me with your own.” sparked some interesting threads.
First posts are below; click on them to see the full threads.
- [Archive.is] Alberto Ruiz on Twitter: “If it wasn’t for @firefox the web would have have a much harder time being the application delivery platform that enabled the cloud as a proposition (and arguably accelerated iPhone/Android)… “
- [Archive.is] Matthew S. Wilson on Twitter: “#OpenSource virtualization technology—from Xen to bochs to QEMU to KVM to Bhyve to crosvm to Firecracker to rust-vmm to Cloud Hypervisor to libkrun—radically transformed infrastructure resource management and increased isolation of workloads, giving rise to the cloud.… “
- [Archive.is] Alex Hidalgo on Twitter: “Virtualization is so common and at the bedrock of so much of our industry now, I think it’s sometimes overlooked for how incredibly magical it was when it first became feasible. Actually: it’s still magical today!… “
- [Archive.is] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers on Twitter: “Great memories of PDP-11, USCS p-code and the Z-machine. They were magic in their days too, but few realised back then how magical and how far reaching their effects would be.… “
- [Archive.is] Jeffrey Snover on Twitter: “The PDP-11 instruction set was like looking at the face of god. Its clarity was sublime. Working with it produced joy and an admiration of the beauty of greate engineering.… “
- [Archive.is] Cordelya is fully vaxxed but risk averse on Twitter: “Python (with some hardware support) makes it pretty easy to read environmental sensors and display the information on a screen so that low-level decisions regarding “is this classroom getting enough ventilation?” can be made in an informed way.… “
- [Archive.is] Ceej “IDEK” Silverio on Twitter: “The rust compiler, its error messages, clippy suggestions, and its integrations with editors via rust-analyzer are so, so good. “
- [Archive.is] Forrest Brazeal on Twitter: “PowerShell was the gateway drug that showed an entire generation of GUI-driven Microsoft IT Pros that they could automate things, too. PowerShell made point-and-click admins into DevOps engineers.… “
- [Archive.is] @jordansissel on Twitter: “Veewee and Vagrant changed the game on OS image creation… “
- [Archive.is] 🌈 eric sorenson 😷 on Twitter: “For me @markburgess_osl ‘s work on @cfengine was transformative and set the course of my career – and not only because it presented an entirely novel way of thinking about large-scale systems administration. It also gathered a community of like-minded folks who swapped …… “
- [Archive.is] Bjoern Michaelsen on Twitter: “git changed the way we stored source code for the better when almost everyone assumed there was nothing new or exciting to do in version control anymore.… “
- [Archive.is] Nicholas Cronquist on Twitter: “WSL2 is incredible. Windows w/ WSL2 is now my preferred development platform and I use it for both work and personal. All the benefits of Windows (drivers, working Bluetooth, supported for employees at most companies) and all the dev benefits of Linux and a posix compliant shell.… “
- [Archive.is] Krish Subramanian on Twitter: “If not for #OpenSource, AWS couldn’t have done cloud. There is no way the company across the lake would have licensed the software for the cloud then. AWS took advantage of #OpenSource and democratized software consumption for developers… “
- [Archive.is] half man half amusing on Twitter: “Writing a bash script to scrape megaCLI into graphite changed how I thought about monitoring, and saved my bacon multiple times at that job. That came right out of a @obfuscurity blog post about how easy getting data into graphite could be. So: bash, graphite, blogs, sharing.… “
- [Archive.is] Julian C. Dunn on Twitter: “Java. I know it’s a language people seem to love to hate. But not only has it had staying power, the JVM has become a well-understood runtime environment that hosts other languages like Kotlin too.… “
By now, more threads are likely to be found at the Quoted tweets (cannot be archived as it requires logon).
–jeroen
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