Boredom

Dan McKinley wrote a great blog post about choosing boring technology. It’s worth reading, but the tl;dr is that by adopting new and exciting technology you introduce additional risk and instability, which limits your ability to innovate on your product. I agree with pretty much everything he said. There’s another dimension to the boredom question …

The Problem With Democracy

The problem with democracy is that the people of a country lose the right to consider themselves independent of government policies. If a government does or says awful things then the people of the democracy have to bear responsibility. Citizens of totalitarian regimes can’t really be held responsible for what their governments do. I don’t …

Streaming royalties: taking over, but what are the details

So TechCrunch posted that Kobalt, a company who collects digital music publishing revenue for artists has announced that Spotify revenue has overtaken iTunes revenue by 13% in Europe. That’s interesting, not surprising given the trends but is missing answers to a few key questions: What are the overall revenues – does this represent an overall …

This is what an insurgent looks like

This is happening one state away from me: Pretty scary stuff. I guess at least Americans are bearing arms to overthrow (in their mind) tyrannical government not just shooting at each other out of fear, anger or greed. It shows some holes in many citizens’ view of the social contract though.

Malaysian Chicken Curry

I really miss Indonesian, Singaporean and Malaysian food. It basically doesn’t exist in the Bay Area. I started reading Bee’s Rasa Malaysia blog for recipes. I think I originally found it looking for a rendang recipe but subscribed. It’s actually a little disappointing because it’s largely Thai or Chinese recipes, and too many competitions and …