Science fiction is not the only genre I read. I enjoy other types of fiction. Nor do I only read fiction. In fact, I would say that I have a habit of alternating one fiction book with one non-fiction book. It is often the non-fiction books that I enjoy the most, but I do believe …
An opinion essay. I am not a licensed investment advisor. Why I’m looking beyond the U.S. market As a European looks at the world today, there are really only two nations threatening territorial expansion at the expense of the sovereignty of European nations: Russia and the United States. As a Canadian, that list shortens to …
Galicia Destination 1: Galicia Galicia is an autonomous region of Spain, which maintains it’s own language (Galiza) and culture. Galicia is known for its Celtic heritage and historic ties to the Gallaeci people. Bagpipes, known in Galicia as the “gaita galega,” are a central symbol of Galician culture and identity, with roots tracing back to …
I am writing a page to document how my tech stack has evolved recently. I will continue to update this page as the process continues to document the reasons why I am updating my tech stack and the choices I have made along the way. I know it is rather silly to enumerate my entire …
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I think a lot of people fail to understand the business model of modern large food retailers. It is the same model in Canada, the USA, in Europe, anywhere. In Canada, large food retailers are extremely consolidated. Similarly, the global CPG (Consumer Packaged Goods) landscape is also extremely consolidated. The contemporary food retailer business model …
We’re living through the Enshittocene, the Great Enshittening, a time in which the services that matter to us, that we rely on, are turning into giant piles of shit. It’s frustrating. Demoralizing. Even terrifying.
How I changed my mind about Ukraine.
The mandate of the Art House Film Club is to break free from the recommendation algorithms and content crafted to reach a specific target market. This club will foster community around films that will challenge you, show you what is possible on film, and introduce you to film makers that will set you on a journey of discovery that might otherwise not be possible. The club will be hosting regular viewing parties in Toronto and providing links to watch online and post comments on the films we recommend.
To rent or buy? There are a lot of articles published recently, but here is a comparison of the two options from my personal experience.
Identity and Access Management (IAM) always requires some type of password store or database.
The majority of IAM cases are handled by simple key-value password stores.
Even when more powerful and fine-grained relational databases are employed, SQL joins are complex and slow, and the results are often cached in simple key-value stores in memory anyways.
Graph databases are a novel solution to this problem, providing the elegance of relational databases without the complex and slow SQL joins that make caching necessary.
