In the middle of my doctorate I had a mini-crisis of "I'm not smart enough and I'm never going to manage this", got mononucleosis, and decided the cure was the US equivalent (the USA Rail Pass: https://www.amtrak.com/tickets/departure-rail-pass.html).

I spent weeks and weeks traveling around the US. The Amtrak system is much maligned but you get to move at a slow pace and see the country and meet people (some of which you would prefer to have not met).

I highly recommend doing it if you want to get a sense of the scale and diversity of the US.

During this trip, at the recommendation of a friend, I read (or tried to read) a number of "American classic" books which I would finish and then leave on the train for someone else to read. Catch in the Rye, Huckleberry Finn, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Great Gatsby, ... The only book I couldn't finish was, ironically, On The Road which I found utterly tedious.

I have an Apricot with the little LCD display on the keyboard. Six membrane keys just under the LCD and each of those keys has an LED in the bottom left corner.

I love the gorgeous keycaps of their portable.

I've tried this with my own blog posts from blog.jgc.org and the result was... not good. It basically wrote something that read like a parody.

Ah, bummer. Not totally surprising though.

I agree. It's very clearly a research prototype and they are talking about getting it working to do body composition.

I am here but I retired from being CTO of Cloudflare in March 2025 [1] and the current CTO is Dane Knecht (dknecht here). What advantage does decoupling Cloudflare Containers from Cloudflare Workers have?

[1] https://blog.cloudflare.com/three-chapters-at-cloudflare-pro...

Speaking from personal experience, I already know exactly what I’m getting with containers. Same with Postgres.

No per-request billing, portable devops - easier multicloud, known semantics (env variables, entrypoint, websocket lifecycle).

Not sure if it's the only blocker, but I wanted to use containers with UDP/SRT.

quick piece of feedback, the workers architecture is a little bit annoying when converting from Lambda but hooking up to cloudflare MCP solves 90% of the issues

there's absolutely nothing positive we want to encourage copying from AWS's architectural approach to anything.

I'm pretty sure I heard your groan from all the way over here in Nashville. ;)

It's blog.jgc.org and you should read it if you like a mixture of electronics, programming, history of computing and just plain randomness.

More great on screen code moments (I haven't got round to Superman III, yet): https://behind-the-screens.tv But Superman III is not just REM statements.

Oh, it’s been a long time since I’ve watched the movie. Unlike I&II it does not bear rewatching, so I’m going by a memory of watching this for the first time in the 80s, probably on TV.

Waiting for him to get around to Jumpin' Jack Flash.

It was 100% not Excel: https://blog.jgc.org/2023/07/unfortunately-kelly-rowland-cou...

Also, we're really close to the 24 year anniversary of "Dilemma": https://hollawhenyougetthis.com

for regular people spreadsheet program -> excel.