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by FigmentEngine 6y ago
I'm looking to do an interactive version, as well as a DSL for designing architectures and calculating their availability. Any other asks/feedback welcome!
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by FigmentEngine 6y ago
So one year after Moca was born, I've done a major update, going from A2 (16×20″) to A1 (24×36″). This change was down to AWS's relentless innovation creating more products. In the same time I have managed to change paper sizes, g
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A1 AWS Poster(moca.computingarchitectures.com)
2 points by FigmentEngine 6y ago|2 comments
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by FigmentEngine 6y ago
i don't have a mac - but a scroll bar does two things, allow scrolling and show scroll position. does the mouse cursor disappear when not being moved? does the text in a terminal disappear when not being edited? seems like dual functio
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by FigmentEngine 6y ago
that is a nonsense statement. "doing something" = "do it" if you mean, cant stop you considering it, then thats fair, but then the point has no value?
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by FigmentEngine 6y ago
here's a towel
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by FigmentEngine 6y ago
its the same in English: late 14c., from Old English byrddæg, "anniversary or celebration of one's birth" (at first usually a king or saint); see birth (n.) + day. Meaning "day on which one is born" is from 1570s. B
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by FigmentEngine 6y ago
Sounds like XProc 3.0 https://xproc.org/
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by FigmentEngine 6y ago
"microlithic" a micro service which bundles multiple responsibilites.
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by FigmentEngine 6y ago
related book on the alphabet by rosen https://www.npr.org/2015/02/07/384108640/alphabetical-tells-...
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by FigmentEngine 6y ago
I remember when there was an MSDOS tree command that was 512 bytes, same as a disk block at the time. I think it was written in assembly, and was from pc magazine or similar, can't remember the author. not saying this as "10k is a
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by FigmentEngine 6y ago
are you just splitting hairs now? :-)
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Show HN: "DeStack” see what's new for your stack (Terraform/cloudformation)(moca.computingarchitectures.com)
11 points by FigmentEngine 6y ago|0 comments
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by FigmentEngine 6y ago
Building something on AWS, and then keeping it up-to-date is hard. DeStack analyzes your stack, and gives you the updates that matter to your stack.
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Show HN: DeStack: An AWS Stack Deconstructor(moca.computingarchitectures.com)
1 points by FigmentEngine 6y ago|1 comments
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by FigmentEngine 6y ago
author here, happy to answer any questions..
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by FigmentEngine 6y ago
author here, thank you! homage to the K&R experience of showing something new, even if the subject matter is very different.
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by FigmentEngine 6y ago
author here, thank you! I tried to distill everything down to some kind of fundamental of computing architeture - hopefully the three (data, exec, move) make sense, I originally called them "data, compute, messaging" but the last
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by FigmentEngine 6y ago
author here, thank you! feedback very welcome! As you say taxonomies are hard, and applying them is somewhat difficult as well!
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by FigmentEngine 6y ago
even better resource, learn wardley mapping https://medium.com/wardleymaps how to use maps in business
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by FigmentEngine 6y ago
You should see his Emacs Tomb...
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by FigmentEngine 6y ago
my POC of this http://hyperion.figmentengine.com/
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by FigmentEngine 6y ago
I created an AWS poster, like the periodic table but for services: https://moca.computingarchitectures.com/en/~hello-world/ it was something to do after i left AWS, and also a way to test a model for computing i w
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Map of Computing Architectures (AWS)(moca.computingarchitectures.com)
2 points by FigmentEngine 6y ago|1 comments
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by FigmentEngine 6y ago
A visual map of AWS inspired by the periodic table. Places every service on a map made of area (data, compute, move) vs scope (human, data center, cloud)
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by FigmentEngine 6y ago
I built this https://moca.computingarchitectures.com/en/vendors/aws/ as well as visual representation https://moca.computingarchitectures.com/en/~hello-world/
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by FigmentEngine 6y ago
more technical detail here https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-16265-x
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Australia 'records fastest internet speed ever'(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by FigmentEngine 6y ago|1 comments
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by FigmentEngine 6y ago
agreed. i wanted to build something, and set myself a 90 (end of quarter) target. it really focused me on just doing what needed doing. my plan did not survive long, but i kept updating it to focus on what mattered. in the end i hit my abit
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by FigmentEngine 6y ago
its shown in the main photo at the top of the article?

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