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Really good article on complex systems:

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2017/10/23/education-in-complexity

A sad tale on how moving from smaller local schools to one large school outside of town has externalized costs to everyone in terms of commute time, increased pollution, and making impossible healthy options like walking or biking.

Encouraging to see our late night comedy performers held to higher standards than our *squints at notes* Supreme Court justices?

That said, here's a solid optimization. Compressing backtraces is a great idea, with the only caveat that it isn't a best practice so I'm torn on optimizing something I don't recommend.

https://github.com/mperham/sidekiq/issues/4270

It's encouraging when contributors struggle to find 1-2 allocations to remove from Sidekiq hot code paths. No low hanging fruit in that codebase. 😎

Just got a generic blackmail letter in the mail. Vague details like my age range, city I live in, etc. Looks like it's a nation-wide scam: https://withoutbullshit.com/blog/my-bitcoin-blackmail-experience-started-with-a-well-written-letter

From ‘Lies my Teacher Told Me’: “American Indian warfare absorbed 80% of the entire federal budget during Washington’s administration”

American followers, I hope everyone is preparing for the Climate Strike next Friday. Find a local event near you here:

https://actionnetwork.org/event_campaigns/us-climate-strikes

Watching “The Boys” for the first time. Love the premise so far. 🦸‍♂️

Update: it’s not perfect but it’s still an incredible value and makes biking up hills so much easier. 🚲 ⚡️

‘What’s global capitalism ever done for me? What am I supposed to be scared of in socialism, the free health care or the free college?’

https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/9/10/20859179/marianne-williamson-income-inequality-wealth-bastille-chaos-kara-swisher-recode-decode-podcast

Apple Watch is several times more powerful than a 1980s Cray supercomputer which cost millions of dollars. ⌚️

The Timbers have so many injuries that they can’t fill an 18 man roster tonight. No defenders on the bench, does not bode well. #rctid 🌲⚽️ 😳

Welcome to Sidekiq 6.0! https://www.mikeperham.com/2019/09/03/welcome-to-sidekiq-6.0/

This article misses one important point (to me): an email address should work for decades. I don’t want to run a server myself that long, nor do I trust a small startup to last that long. https://poolp.org/posts/2019-08-30/you-should-not-run-your-mail-server-because-mail-is-hard

Bought our first ebike. It’s incredibly cheap ($600) but looks like a decent city bike; we’ll see how well it holds up. https://bit.ly/2SqsBQ5

I just released Sidekiq 6, Sidekiq Pro 5 and Sidekiq Enterprise 2. 🎉🎩

https://github.com/mperham/sidekiq/blob/master/Changes.md#60

Will announce publicly on Monday so I can handle any bug reports this weekend.