Archive: 2021
7 posts published in 2021
Blender on Lambda
Rendering Blender Scenes in AWS Lambda
I recently published TAS-PC, a producer-queue-consumer lambda terraform module. This was an intermediate step for creating a distributed rendering engine.
In this post I’d like to discuss some of the technical aspects of that work.
TAS PC
Terraform-AWS Serverless Producer-Consumer Module
I needed to setup some infrastructure in AWS but did not want to make modifications each time I needed them. What a better opportunity than this one to learn Terraform.
So I created a little module that sets up a small producer-consumer serverless (lambda-based) architecture, powered by a SQS queue.
Using Dependabot with Yarn 2
Not currently supported out of the box
A few weeks ago I migrated worklogger to TypeScript and yarn 2.
But this broke some things along the way.
AI "sidesteps" scientific method
Not really but still a breakthrough
There’s an article published in TheNewStack.io that is titled Machine Learning Algorithm Sidesteps the scientific method. While I do consider this to be clickbait, I still consider some truth behind it worth discussing.
Real privacy does not exist
Why the illusion of privacy is only an illusion
There was a particular gag I came across in a Youtube video. One where, from the point of view of a long-term future, an advance human race made fun of us for having expectations of privacy in our lives.
I brushed it away as a single joke at first, but it stuck with me. I think they might be right.
Type safety vs. unit tests
A debate of several years...
Can unit tests that assert type safety be enough to compete against strong-typed languages?
The Four-Hour Work-Week
I just finished reading Tim Ferriss’ 4-hour workweek book. To be honest, it’s not what I expected.