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My lack of disgust felt like cheating. The Chinese pidan, for example—a clay-preserved egg with a swampy blue-green hue—has been one of my comfort foods since childhood. The thought of stinky tofu makes me salivate. Durian was more complicated. I don’t like its smell, which some describe as a mix of turpentine and onions, but I’ve eaten enough durian-flavored desserts to reflexively separate the fruit’s odor from its taste, which is simultaneously creamy, sweet, and savory—like chives, garlic, and caramel, blended into a butter.
The Gatekeepers Who Get to Decide What Food Is “Disgusting”
newyorker.com
Malls outside of the US and western Europe are still the go-to place. Especially for the middle class. Especially on weekend nights. Places where the whole family goes to splurge. To maybe ice skate, get a hamburger, and then see a movie. They are also nice windows into the often massive inequality in most countries. In Jakarta there is an upscale mall, complete with fancy western fashion stores, with shacks literally against the back wall of the mall. Using it as one side of a tin roofed home. Although being in a Kyiv mall two weeks before the Russian invasion gave me a pretty blind vision of what was about to happen. All I saw were happy families oblivious to the encroaching danger, which I mistook for some commentary on what was about to happen, rather than people trying to do their best to ignore the ugly.
How to Travel
walkingtheworld.substack.com
Kafka provides events that tell us to go index something. There are a bunch of crawlers that interact with Git and a service for extracting symbols from code, and then we use Kafka, again, to allow each shard to consume documents for indexing at its own pace.
The Technology Behind GitHub’s New Code Search | the GitHub Blog
github.blog
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