Alex Cook
@sabbatical_eng
Software Engineer on sabbatical. Interested in happiness, climate-change, entrepreneurship, creativity, connecting with myself and others, and everything else.
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I've written up the takeaways from my first month of sabbatical for anyone interested! Surprise...it's not all sunshine and rainbows! link.medium.com/8ko1IqMHtrb
Everyone talks about time being money, but they often forget that money can buy you time. Read why I bought a sabbatical instead of a fancy car. link.medium.com/zimO2BsSIqb
link.medium.com
Why I Bought a Sabbatical Instead of a Fancy Car
Money can be used for buying a lot of things, but I’ve chosen to buy time.
I’ll be speaking about #dataprivacy in the world of Kafka at the #kafkasummit tomorrow. The session will be recorded, so let me know if you’re interested!
Turn off your public sharing of transactions and messages on #Venmo! It's on by default - terrible privacy design. theguardian.com/world/2018/jul…
Chris Wylie made some great points at our event two weeks ago, well worth a watch
Very Interesting talk from @JeniT. Data ownership could make you money, but it may also mean that privacy becomes a luxury for the rich, while everyone else “sells” their data for services like FB and Google. If you’re not paying, you are the product.
“If you like 100 things on Facebook it’s possible to build a detailed profile on you, influence your behaviour and exploit your mental vulnerabilities” @chrisinsilico speaking at @privitarglobal #InConfidence
We should be scared about who handles our data. @chrisinsilico is right, we won't get many chances to learn this lesson. #InConfidence Once your data is out there it cannot be recalled. Your data lineage is so important. blog.solidatus.com/i-agree-to-you…
I bet this is getting a lot more traffic than they would have expected thanks to Cambridge Analytica. Good to see people caring a bit more about #dataprivacy. my.sociabble.com/H1bQz4L1
blog.cloudflare.com
Announcing 1.1.1.1: the fastest, privacy-first consumer DNS service
Cloudflare's mission is to help build a better Internet. We're excited today to take another step toward that mission with the launch of 1.1.1.1 — the Internet's fastest, privacy-first consumer DNS...
The privacy fallacy: Why we need to stop thinking of data protection as an inhibitor of enterprise analytics my.sociabble.com/fVyUwhbr
Come and check out the #IBMStreams real-time analytics demos at #StrataData See how you can make live Speech2Text at scale a reality. #IBM
#Apache #Quarks hangout on May 12! Sensors on #RaspberryPi + integration with #Watson #IoT and #IBMStreams. plus.google.com/events/c9i8t4j… …
The moment I've waited for is here! With the Python Topology API Alpha we can write #IBMStreams apps in Python! developer.ibm.com/streamsdev/201…
To quote Forrester Research “So what are you waiting for?” get started right now with #IBMStreams! developer.ibm.com/streamsdev/201…
Join us tomorrow, 10am-12pm PST! Our committers answer questions and give an Intro to #Apache #Quarks (incubating). quarks.incubator.apache.org
First Hangout on Wed, 4/13, 10am-12pm PST! Join our committers live for an Intro to #Apache #Quarks (incubating). quarks.incubator.apache.org
Lots of people at #MWC16 interested in IBM and how we're bringing #cognitivecomputing to #iot. #quarks #IBMstreams
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