Happy Sunday, bibliophiles! I hope this week has treated you well. This week: I get more heated than I ever expected to be about Edvard Grieg, my middle school sad bastard music comes out of its cave, and, uh…what’s that? LOVE SHACK, BABY! More at 6. Enjoy this week’s songs! SUNDAY SONGS: 7/20/25 “Love Shack” […]| The Bookish Mutant
Driving towards a better future is hard. There is a fine line, when it comes to accessibility, between pushing people forward and pushing them away.| Frank Elavsky
There is a just-emerging conversation by big names in the field of visualization, proposing to rebrand from ‘visualization’ towards ‘data experiences.’ While I love this, folks either seem to be unaware or actively shifting the conversation from where we have been focusing the last few years: including people with disabilities. I hope we aren’t forgotten in this new turn for our field.| Frank Elavsky
We left part 1 having explored GF(2^8) and RAID 6, and asking the question "what does all this have to do with Erasure Codes?"| sthbrx.github.io
Erasure coding is an increasingly popular storage technology - allowing the same level of fault tolerance as replication with a significantly reduced storage footprint.| sthbrx.github.io