items dislodged from my reading queue of particular interest. first off - if you don’t have the morning paper in your RSS reader, you should. nerd bits slacker: fast distribution with lazy docker containers - what happens behind the scenes when you type docker run. i’ve scratched my head aplenty over the operation of AUFS and the complementary machinery around docker volumes. lots of dots get connected here. borg, omega, and kubernetes - the most recent ACM queue article from the borg crew re: container scheduling at the GOOG....

there’s a pernicious bug inside of instapaper that drives me absolutely bonkers. it is as follows. ...

in short, if you’re using a url shortener, don’t use it for important, private stuff. ...

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