Erik Nygren
@erik.nygren.org
Internet Systems Architect, Maker, Father, Husband, tinkerer, IPv6 evangelist, IETF standards, long-time Linux user, and wanna-be mad scientist. Deals with complex systems and ops/infosec. $dayjob at Akamai (as20940) since 1999. Posts my own. He/Him
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So I have only just discovered at some vague point in the next couple weeks Google is going to break the way my work email works, and the company has done nothing to alert people to it.
www.theregister.com/2026/01/05/g...
www.theregister.com/2026/01/05/g...
Gmail preparing to drop POP3 mail fetching
: It's January 2026, and Google is finding innovative new ways to make one of its services worse
www.theregister.com
January 7, 2026 at 6:25 PM
So I have only just discovered at some vague point in the next couple weeks Google is going to break the way my work email works, and the company has done nothing to alert people to it.
www.theregister.com/2026/01/05/g...
www.theregister.com/2026/01/05/g...
My wife's response: but I thought it's not compatible with the 5G one that Bill Gates installed through a COVID vaccine?
January 1, 2026 at 3:41 AM
My wife's response: but I thought it's not compatible with the 5G one that Bill Gates installed through a COVID vaccine?
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Shel Silverstein on AI before GenAI.
December 28, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Shel Silverstein on AI before GenAI.
I was getting enough irish sweater advertisements after IETF Dublin that I ordered one for each of us (at a much more reasonable price) only to discover that I'm quite allergic to them.
December 28, 2025 at 2:29 AM
I was getting enough irish sweater advertisements after IETF Dublin that I ordered one for each of us (at a much more reasonable price) only to discover that I'm quite allergic to them.
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RIP
The Inventor Of The Little Arrow That Tells You What Side The Fuel Filler Is On Has Died - Jalopnik
The idea came to Moylan on a rainy day in April 1986 when he hopped in one of Ford's employee fleet cars to drive to a meeting at another building.
www.jalopnik.com
December 27, 2025 at 10:04 AM
RIP
This Somerville Journal article from 1903 could have been a rant today on local social media: hachyderm.io/@nygren/1119...
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The #Somerville Public Library just digitized the Somerville Journal from 1870 to 1907 and I could spend days reading through articles in it…
https://somervillema.historyarchives.o...
hachyderm.io
December 26, 2025 at 2:21 PM
This Somerville Journal article from 1903 could have been a rant today on local social media: hachyderm.io/@nygren/1119...
I learned earlier this week that the IMDB rating scale for it goes to 11.
December 26, 2025 at 3:21 AM
I learned earlier this week that the IMDB rating scale for it goes to 11.
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The ACM Digital Library, where a LOT of computing-related research is published (I'd say at least 75% of my own publications), is now not only providing (without consent of the authors and without opt-in by readers) AI-generated summaries of papers, but they appear as the *default* over abstracts.
December 16, 2025 at 11:31 PM
The ACM Digital Library, where a LOT of computing-related research is published (I'd say at least 75% of my own publications), is now not only providing (without consent of the authors and without opt-in by readers) AI-generated summaries of papers, but they appear as the *default* over abstracts.
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Today, we are super thrilled to announce that Fermyon is now part of Akamai Technologies.
Fermyon’s vision of building the next generation of serverless computing slots perfectly into Akamai’s own vision for the future of edge technology.
www.fermyon.com/blog/fermyon...
Fermyon’s vision of building the next generation of serverless computing slots perfectly into Akamai’s own vision for the future of edge technology.
www.fermyon.com/blog/fermyon...
Fermyon Joins Akamai
Announcing that Fermyon is now part of Akamai Technologies.
www.fermyon.com
December 1, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Today, we are super thrilled to announce that Fermyon is now part of Akamai Technologies.
Fermyon’s vision of building the next generation of serverless computing slots perfectly into Akamai’s own vision for the future of edge technology.
www.fermyon.com/blog/fermyon...
Fermyon’s vision of building the next generation of serverless computing slots perfectly into Akamai’s own vision for the future of edge technology.
www.fermyon.com/blog/fermyon...
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Learning culture moderates how software organizations adopt tools and the implicit rules we're giving developers want what they can do, experiment with, push back on, and share.
And software has spent years dismissing it in favor of sloppy ad hoc velocity benchmarks
And software has spent years dismissing it in favor of sloppy ad hoc velocity benchmarks
December 6, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Learning culture moderates how software organizations adopt tools and the implicit rules we're giving developers want what they can do, experiment with, push back on, and share.
And software has spent years dismissing it in favor of sloppy ad hoc velocity benchmarks
And software has spent years dismissing it in favor of sloppy ad hoc velocity benchmarks
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Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread
November 29, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread
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Ok, Maccabeats absolutely nailed it this year.
"HanuKpop Demon Hunters" Official Lyric Video | The Maccabeats | Kpop Demon Hunters Hanukkah Medley
YouTube video by Maccabeats
youtu.be
November 25, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Ok, Maccabeats absolutely nailed it this year.
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This is not a peace plan. It is a proposal that weakens Ukraine and divides America from Europe, preparing the way for a larger war in the future. In the meantime, it benefits unnamed Russian and American investors, at the expense of everyone else.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Trump Has a Recipe for War and Corruption, Not Peace
Who would benefit from the White House’s 28-point proposal for Ukraine?
www.theatlantic.com
November 22, 2025 at 11:11 AM
This is not a peace plan. It is a proposal that weakens Ukraine and divides America from Europe, preparing the way for a larger war in the future. In the meantime, it benefits unnamed Russian and American investors, at the expense of everyone else.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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At the end of my grad systems class (CMU 15-712), I show some videos from the SOSP History Day, including the panel, "Is achieving security a hopeless quest?". It's now 10 years old, and it's quite interesting to watch.
(1) Margo's talk remains utterly hilarious and on-point
1/13
(1) Margo's talk remains utterly hilarious and on-point
1/13
November 20, 2025 at 4:06 PM
At the end of my grad systems class (CMU 15-712), I show some videos from the SOSP History Day, including the panel, "Is achieving security a hopeless quest?". It's now 10 years old, and it's quite interesting to watch.
(1) Margo's talk remains utterly hilarious and on-point
1/13
(1) Margo's talk remains utterly hilarious and on-point
1/13
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Told you she was (and is) the most important SF/F writer of our generation
✨ Please join SFWA in celebrating the announcement of our latest Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award: N. K. Jemisin. ✨
Learn more here about @nkjemisin.bsky.social, the Grand Master Award, and how the work goes on after the accolades for all we've already done:
www.sfwa.org/2025/11/16/p...
Learn more here about @nkjemisin.bsky.social, the Grand Master Award, and how the work goes on after the accolades for all we've already done:
www.sfwa.org/2025/11/16/p...
November 16, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Told you she was (and is) the most important SF/F writer of our generation
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Fortunately, I already figured out the plots of the next several Toy Story films
November 12, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Fortunately, I already figured out the plots of the next several Toy Story films
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Woohoo!!! More Deadloch!
🚨Deadloch heads: S2 of the Aussie crime satire/drama (it's good!) arrives on Amazon Prime March 20. Many chaotic Aussie weirdos return/debut. But HEADS UP they have added a Hemsworth (Luke)! This is not a drill! Kudos to the hair & costume team for this whole deal. www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/st...
November 11, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Woohoo!!! More Deadloch!
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Meet my new protagonist.
Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
apnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Meet my new protagonist.
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Nintendo Gamma Boy
November 8, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Nintendo Gamma Boy
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BREAKING: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center is illegally closing 13 campus buildings (including ~100 laboratories).
Report coming from GESTA, the Goddard employee union
Report coming from GESTA, the Goddard employee union
November 2, 2025 at 4:55 AM
BREAKING: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center is illegally closing 13 campus buildings (including ~100 laboratories).
Report coming from GESTA, the Goddard employee union
Report coming from GESTA, the Goddard employee union
I almost never watch sports but the only time I do is during the end of the last game of some major competition. After all the talk here I figured I should tune in and after failing to find a way to stream conveniently discovered that the TV in my Montreal hotel room has it.
November 2, 2025 at 3:48 AM
I almost never watch sports but the only time I do is during the end of the last game of some major competition. After all the talk here I figured I should tune in and after failing to find a way to stream conveniently discovered that the TV in my Montreal hotel room has it.
They even have corned beef poutine
November 2, 2025 at 3:42 AM
They even have corned beef poutine
Ensuring that every IETF includes some jet lag.
November 2, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Ensuring that every IETF includes some jet lag.