Read, Heard and Watched - 4

My content-helper tool is in progress; so far it only gets my recently (-7 days) saved tracks from Spotify and drops them out in the markdown used below, but it’s a start.

Read 📜

Books 📖

• [Ender’s Saga #3: Xenocide][xeno] (finished)
  • I was losing interest but pushed through to the end. There’s a lot of squabbling/in-fighting between characters and I think that just got tedious for me.

Articles 📰

• PostgreSQL vs Redis vs Memcached performance
  • PostgreSQL performing pretty well. An interesting note in the comments about the network as well.
• Upgrade your Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL database, Part 1: Comparing upgrade approaches and Part 2
  • I may need to do the replication method at some stage in the future so it’s handy having this reference.

Heard 👂

Podcasts 🎤

• Go Time: Don’t forget about memory management
  • I always find these discussions of how things are operating at a lower level to be interesting, even if they’re not always applicable to anything I’m doing.
• The Changelog: Building software for yourself
  • Inspiring that this person has built their own language and surrounding ecosystem.

Music 🎵

• Dire, Dire Docks (Super Mario 64) by GENTLE LOVE
• Coming Home to Luncheon by Lena Raine
• Farewell by Lena Raine
• Joy of Remembrance by Lena Raine
• Mistake by Orax
• Losing Grip by CRT_HEAD
• Breakdown by Droid Bishop
• HALOHEAD by KUNZITE, Ratatat
• Aquatic Ambiance (Donkey Kong Country) by GENTLE LOVE
• Wallwalker by Maserati
• King’s Filth by Le Matos
• Machine Guns and Peacock Feathers - Carpenter Brut Remix by Ulver, Carpenter Brut
• Prism by Dugo
• Attack Ships On Fire by London Elektricity
• Deckard Returns by Chrome Canyon
• Pursuer by Sound of Ceres

Watched 👀

Movies 🎬

• Lady Bird
  • Half coming-of-age story, half love-letter to Sacramento. I enjoyed it.