Blinded by the light.
I just learned that Docker originally was just an application of LXC, Ubuntu’s container management software.
LXC containers “will typically be long running and based on a clean distribution image”, while “Docker focuses on ephemeral, stateless, minimal containers that won’t typically get upgraded or re-configured but instead just be replaced entirely”.
This 12-part series about LXD 2.0 (a daemon to drive LXC containers) by its project leader, Stéphane Graber, provides a very good introduction into other corners of virtualization with containers.
The list of 2016 visualization lists.
Mapping the Shadows of New York City: Every Building, Every Block.
Let's have a look at the many different methods for displaying distributions. We'll take one data set and display its distribution 16 different ways.
Guillermo Rauch’s 2016 in Review.
Txti is a free service that lets you create the fastest, simplest, most shareable web pages on the internet using any phone, tablet, or computer you have. (Via motherfuckingwebsite.com.)
A Tale of Four Megacities and Four Solutions.
Across Asia, big cities are finding surprising ways to grapple with climate change, bad traffic and the rest of it.
A Selection of the 30 Most Disappointing Under 30.
Best book title/cover combo for a long time.
Everything I Want to Do Is Illegal.
Exoplanet Exploration: Planets Beyond our Solar System. Current news, discoveries, data, and interactive 3-D visualizations of exoplanets from NASA.
