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🔎Julia Evans🔍 Profile picture
@b0rk
May 26, 2020 • 7 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
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I bought "making comics" by Lynda Barry recently and I really love it. the back cover is this invitation to try drawing again Image
the book has a lot of wonderful drawing exercises that aren't about technical precision at all Image
she talks a lot about how the strange characters you draw can surprise you Image
and the main thing that comes through in the book is that she really loves drawings made by beginners Image
as soon as I read this book I drew a bunch of things and they were very charming and I loved them. (instead of feeling bad about being "bad" at drawing) Image
I was really surprised that the thing I needed to make details I liked wasn't to read "drawing on the right side of the brain" or learn to draw a hand or anything, I could just change my attitude and start drawing things i like immediately :) :) :)
you can buy making comics from the publisher here: drawnandquarterly.com/making-comics

I got my copy from their store in Montreal.

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Jan 4, 2022
why is it important that DNS distributes control? right now I have that countries can keep their DNS infrastructure (almost) entirely out of the US
I'm thinking about this because I've seen explanations that DNS is decentralized ten billion times but I don't think I've seen it broken down why that actually matters in practice
I guess another way of asking this is -- why do some organizations choose to operate their own authoritative DNS servers?
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Dec 10, 2021
A lot of my writing is fueled by my frustrations trying to learn things, like "Wait, all that impenetrable jargon and THAT'S all you were trying to say? Why didn't you just SAY SO?". So I try to make the explanation I wish I'd found.
I'm also really motivated by seeing other people having a hard time learning something. Often I look at the resources a friend is using and it'll be so clear that it's not a helpful explanation for them
I have a lot of confidence in my ability to understand things so if an explanation doesn't make sense to me I'm pretty quick to conclude "well obviously the problem is with the explanation, not with ME" (though obviously this approach doesn't always work out for me haha)
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Dec 9, 2021
i've been working on a website to let you do DNS experiments and as always I'm surprised by how many design decisions there are to make for such a small-scale project
even leaving the UX design aside (which is so hard!!), I have absolutely 0 motivation to do maintenance work on my projects, so I need to be careful now to make sure I don't have to do maintenance later
one decision was whether to make the DNS server distributed to improve latency. I decided to run just 1 server with the HTTP server and DNS server sharing a process because managing distributed systems really sucks and it's an educational project, it's ok if it's a bit slow
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Oct 5, 2021
something I don't understand about BGP: can I (as a Regular Person with no special privileges) actually look up past BGP route announcements to see where facebook withdrew its BGP routes? how/where do I do it?
I now have links to a lot of tools but I still don't really understand how to use/interpret them, I feel like I need a screencast of someone explaining how to use one of these tools to look at this facebook issue :)
like this BGPlay interface is not that intuitive. maybe 129.134.30.12/24 is the wrong subnet and I should be looking at something else?
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Sep 9, 2021
if you've been working in computing for > 15 years -- are there fundamentals that you learned "on the job" 15 years ago that you think most people aren't learning on the job today?

(I'm thinking about how for example nobody has ever paid me to write C code)
I'm especially interested in topics that are still relevant today (like C programming) but are just harder to pick up at work now than they used to be
(the reason I'm asking is that I think that there are some fundamentals that are really hard to learn today, and I think it might be because we work with more abstractions in our jobs so it's harder to see the fundamentals than it used to be)
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May 2, 2021
exciting announcement: I just put all of my comics online at wizardzines.com/comics/!

Here's a blog post about why I did it: jvns.ca/blog/2021/05/0…
I made a little search function so that you can easily find the one you want wizardzines.com/comics/.
I felt a bit worried about making all these comics more easily available online because – what if nobody wants to buy the zines anymore?
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