Read, Learn, Improve - 28th Aug
Pavan Yara
Tech Consultant | Principal Solution Architect | Private & Public Clouds | Data security | Low Code & No Code Platforms
My weekly dose of interesting reads and personal recommendations:
Tech
Why your website should be under 14kb in size:
Most web servers TCP slow start algorithm starts by sending 10 TCP packets. The maximum size of a TCP packet is 1500 bytes. This maximum is not set by the TCP specification, it comes from the ethernet standard. Each TCP packet uses 40 bytes in its header — 16 bytes for IP and an additional 24 bytes for TCP. That leaves 1460 bytes per TCP packet. 10 x 1460 = 14600 bytes or roughly 14kB!
So if you can fit your website — or the critical parts of it — into 14kB, you can save visitors a lot of time — the time it takes for one round trip between them and your website's server.
Are we looking at phasing out?of free-tier programs by SaaS companies now?
1. #Slack’s free plan change is causing an exodus. via zulip blog post
Alternatives/Equivalents to #heroku offering similar benefits:
Serving Netflix Video Traffic at 400Gb/s and Beyond
with Free BSD (OS), Nginx (webserver). Video served via asynchronous sendfile(2) and encrypted using kTLS.
More info (PDF): https://nabstreamingsummit.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/2022-Streaming-Summit-Netflix.pdf
AI Generated Blog Thumbnails
Don McKenzie replaced all his 100+ blog thumbnails using DALL·E 2 for $45: here’s what he learned at https://deephaven.io/blog/2022/08/08/AI-generated-blog-thumbnails/
Here's a fun way to design the next iPhone.
https://neal.fun/design-the-next-iphone/
Open-source maps for everyone, powered by Headway and OpenStreetMap
Non-Tech
On Corp Speak:
Traditional writing strives to elicit feeling. Preferably strong, complex cocktails of sadness, joy, fear, disgust, lust, Schadenfreude, ennui, that feeling when someone cancels plans you didn’t want to do anyway. Really anything that speaks to the human experience. The stronger and more complex the feeling, the better.
Corporate language strives to limit feeling to a pre-approved range. It’s aiming for a nice La Croix of neutral, mildly positive feeling.
It's a good read at https://goodreason.substack.com/p/on-corpspeak
领英推荐
What I learned from Prof. Sanjay Bakshi’s Behavioral Economics Course at FLAME University by Jana Vembunarayanan
Mihaly says our conscious brain has the capacity to process at most 126 bits of information per second. To understand what another person is saying we must process 40 bits of information each second. So, our conscious brain has limited processing capacity.
More: https://janav.wordpress.com/2022/08/07/what-i-learned-from-prof-sanjay-bakshis-behavioral-economics-course-at-flame-university/
One kitchen, hundreds of internet restaurants
Prashant Baid wrote about a mad rabbit hole that led him to a FSSAI licensee in Bangalore, running about 200 different (fake) restaurant brands from one single cloud kitchen.
Read details at https://peabee.substack.com/p/17-one-kitchen-hundreds-of-internet
Three rare and powerful skills by Morgan Housel
1. Understanding how people justify their beliefs in a way that makes you respect their delusions.
We are all prisoners to our past, products of our generation, and influenced by who we’ve met and what we’ve experienced, most of which has been out of our control. Some are worse than others, and some are more aware of their blindspots. But everyone has a firmly held belief that an equally smart and informed person disagrees with.
2. Quitting while you’re ahead, or at least before you’ve had too much.
?People don’t like leaving opportunities on the table, and it’s counterintuitive to realize that you’ll likely end up with more than those whose appetite for more is insatiable.
3. Getting to the point.
Perhaps the most critical communication skill. Be brief. Use as few words as possible to say what you need, and everyone will appreciate it.
Poor communicators ramble. Good communicators leave out unnecessary details. Great communicators treat words as the scarcest commodity.
More: https://www.collaborativefund.com/blog/rare-skills/
Quote
“I’ll give you some life advice,” I said. “The first piece is: Listen and listen intently when you’re being spoken to about something. The second: Take the high road. When presented with frustration or anger or discontentment with a situation or a person, don’t reduce yourself to that level. Don’t get into a conflict in that moment. You’ll feel better about yourself for it.” Well, to my surprise, this created a near frenzy in the room. The students were aghast. I was surprised by the reaction, so I said: “Tell me more about why that seems like bad advice to you.” “I believe I should stand up for myself!” said one student. “I’m not saying you shouldn’t stand up for yourself,” I said. “I’m just saying, in the heat of the moment, walk away from it.”
~Gunn’s Golden Rules: Life’s Little Lessons for Making It Work
Karma:
?From Manish Pandit's blog post-
The theory of karma holds that whatever was the nature of your connection with somebody, in whatever form they may so have been embodied at that time or now, the essence of that connection will operate in this life. You have recourse to two principal actions. This post will deal with the first: The worship of Smarahara or Shiva.
Smara hara (Shiva) takes away your memories… He helps to forget… so that is why Shiva gives renunciation.. u can easily forget the accumulated memories of previous lifetimes.
Smara Hara (Shiva) takes away memories no doubt but He also burns the karma associated and encoded by the lower three chakras of Muladhara, Swadhisthana and Manipura, each of which encode the fundamentals of Greed, Sex and Lust and Food. The depiction of Shiva is at the cremation ground and there is a esoteric reason for that particular portrayal.
Memories of who you are cause you to identify with “you”… Shiva starts that process of annihilation of those memories, since you are none other than what you “remember” yourself to be, worship of Shiva can transform ” you” by a progressive destruction of those memories in His Smashana.
Full blog post:
https://mmpandit.wordpress.com/2016/08/27/shiva-smarahara-destroyer-of-memories/