What I read this week - 2024.11.17
A few articles I enjoyed reading this week - 2024.11.17

A few articles I enjoyed reading this past week.
This week's best article is a wild account of a woman who treated her own cancer with lab grown viruses.
This scientist treated her own cancer with viruses she grew in the lab
Virologist Beata Halassy says self-treatment worked and was a positive experience — but researchers warn that it is not something others should try.
During my teenage and college years I spent countless hours playing video games and LAN parties were always a highlight. This account of a purpose built LAN party room in this engineers house is a wonderful throwback.
LAN Party House
We built a(nother) house optimized for LAN Parties.
The Onion bought InfoWars. Nobody could have thought this would ever happen.
Here’s Why I Decided To Buy ‘InfoWars’
Today we celebrate a new addition to the Global Tetrahedron LLC family of brands. And let me say, I really do see it as a family. Much like family members, our brands are abstract nodes of wealth, interchangeable assets for their patriarch to absorb and discard according to the opaque whims of the market. And […]
The outbox pattern is one I have used many times in the past. Gunnar Morling goes deep into the pattern once again.
Revisiting the Outbox Pattern
Comparing the outbox pattern to alternatives like “listen-to-yourself” and 2-phase commit (2PC) transactions. What’s the best choice for data exchange flows between microservices?