Feb 29
Where did IPv6 grow in 2023? Where did it not? What countries led on IPv6 deployment?
Recently a colleague of mine at the Internet Society, Robbie Mitchell, laid all this out in a long post titled “Governments and Industry Driving IPv6 in 2023”. With data and many charts he walks through where IPv6 deployment …
Feb 02
Do you remember… Ello? For a brief time in 2014 to 2016-ish, it flared up as “the next emerging social network” and even as a “Facebook-killer”. And then it flamed out… and… in the summer of 2023, it disappeared completely as the site was taken offline. I was all in with Ello for a time! […]
Feb 01
I’m doing it again… instead of writing and creating new posts in the morning, I’m sitting there scrolling through Mastodon… or reading the latest news on Memeorandum or Techmeme… or jumping into work email or Slack before I really need to. And sooner or later, any of the “free” time I had is gone and it’s time to start the work day. The time has melted away. Consumption has triumphed over creation, yet again. That’s no way to get back into writing more. That’s no way to develop habits of consistent writing. And yet it is so incredibly easy to…
Jan 15
On January 8, 2024, United Launch Alliance (ULA) successfully launched their Vulcan Centaur rocket – in this episode I talk about WHY this was such an important milestone and about the current state of the launch industry where SpaceX is the only compa…
Jan 12
Tonight here in northwestern Vermont we’re supposed to get the double trouble of heavy, wet snow and a windstorm with winds up to 49 mph (79 kph). The combination will undoubtedly cause trees to fall, taking down power and Internet cables. Forecasters are expecting power outages all across the state. In these moments, I often […]
Jan 10
Tonight I was looking at my danyork.me aggregation site and I was confused… why were my posts from my danyork.com site NOT appearing in the master list? I *knew* I had written there. Of course my initial thought was some problem with the RSS feed. Yep! On danyork.me I’m using the older FeedWordPress plugin for WordPress that does RSS syndication. A quick look told me that the feed it was supposed to be pulling in was: https://www.danyork.com/rss.xml Except… that was showing up as invalid XML. 🤷♂️ After some trial and error, I discovered that… I need to drop the “www”…
Jan 09
If you want to understand how we got to the Web that we have today, I would strongly recommend reading this beautiful piece by Mia Sato at The Verge on the theme of “Google shapes everything on the Web” It…
Jan 08
It’s a new year and this year I’ve got a new plan that I’m aiming at for producing weekly podcast episodes. In this episode I talk about the plan an how it relates to other work I’m doing and content I’m creating. More info at: https://www.danyork.com/…
Jan 08
As I was posting about on Mastodon, early this morning United Launch Alliance (ULA) successfully launched their new Vulcan Centaur rocket into space from their launch site in Florida. The rocket carried the first US moon lander (Peregrine) from a private company (Astrobiotic), as well as a whole range of science experiments, part of the remains of several people, and even a collection of stories from writers. Some great coverage is available from ArsTechnica, SpaceNews, SpaceFlight Now, and Space.com (many photos). The key point is that the rocket launched successfully! As I wrote about back in my November 3rd issue…
Jan 07
In thinking about my themes for 2024 and specifically about changing my habits, one change that I am going to try is to get consistent with both my “The Dan York Report” podcast and also my “A View From The Crow’s Nest” newsletter. Right now they are both “irregular” or “periodic”… meaning I just do them whenever I think about them or have some reason for doing them. Which means that sometimes I publish 4 of them in a week… and then I don’t publish anything for four weeks or more! 🤦♂️ I want to get in the *habit* of…
