Nov 15

IETF 106 Begins Nov 16 in Singapore – Here is how you can participate remotely in building open Internet standards

photo of the "super trees" in Singapore

Starting Saturday, November 16, 2019, the 106th meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) will begin in Singapore. Over 1,000 engineers from around the world will gather in the convention center to join together in the debates and discussions that will advance the open standards that make the Internet possible. They are gathered, in […]

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Nov 14

TDYR 378 – Driving without an actual key

Are we (of a certain age) the last generation to remember sticking actual physical keys into cars? In this episode, I just talk about how actual keys have faded away in favor of “key fobs”… and how while that gives great convenience, it comes with ot…

Nov 13

TDYR 377 – Initial Thoughts on WordPress 5.3

WordPress 5.3 was released yesterday, November 12, 2019, an in this episode I talk about my initial thoughts on the release and what I’m excited to use on my sites. If you are curious about what is in WordPress 5.3, or have seen the upgrade notices an…

Nov 12

TDYR 376 – Is It The End of The EditFlow Plugin for WordPress?

Is it the end of the EditFlow plugin for WordPress? Or is there still life in the plugin? In this episode I talk about the value I found in EditFlow over the years, as well as recent news that work was discontinued… although that seems at odds with c…

Nov 11

TDYR 375 – What is dialing, Daddy?

“What is ‘dialing’, Daddy?”, my youngest daughter asked one day when I talked about “dialing” a number on the phone. In this episode I reminisce about the age of rotary dial phones… including that time I and some friends were repeatedly dialing a tic…

Nov 10

TDYR 374 – Choices, Consequences, Responsibility, and why I like Babylon 5 so much

In a recent interview about his new book, J. Michael Straczynski, said he pitched the network on his Babylon 5 show by saying that it was all about “choices, consequences, and responsibility.” In this short episode, I talk about what a great summary th…

Nov 09

TDYR 373 – Celebrating 30 Years Since the Fall of the Berlin Wall

“Die Mauer! Die Mauer ist weg!” (“The wall! The wall is gone!”) It was 30 years ago tonight when I got the phone call from a friend of mine that the wall was gone. I turned on our TV and was astounded by what I saw. For cold-war kids who were students …

Nov 08

TDYR 372 – Are there good alternatives to Meetup.com?

Are there good alternatives to Meetup.com for organizing groups and events? Many people started asking that question a few weeks ago when it appeared Meetup.com was drastically changing its pricing. While Meetup.com clarified this was just a test, it c…

Nov 07

TDYR 371 – Celebrating 50 Years of UNIX

It was 50 years ago in the summer of 1969 that the Unix operating system was created at Bell Labs by Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie and their colleagues. In this episode I talk about the large effect Unix has had on my own life, in all of its many variat…

Nov 06

TDYR 370 – CDNs, Anycast, Containers, and the Disaggregation of Networking Models

Once upon a time, our mental model of how networking worked was rather simple. You had a device connected to a network (a “client”) and a server to which that device was connecting. Each had a host name and an IP address. The server was typically a com…