Ross Fenning's Digital Garden

  1. Impermanence

    Today’s entry from The Daily Stoic, entitled “The Smoke and Dust of Myth”, discusses how quickly things — particularly trivial and petty things — are quickly forgotten..

    Smoke and Dust

    This is inspired by writings in Meditations from Marcus Aurelius in which he notes how most emperors before him are mainly …

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  2. Less is more

    Recently, I was prompted by an entry in my Daily Stoic Journal to consider “What would less look like?”.

    The consideration for the day was around the benefits and virtues of being brief and concise with words, but perhaps also with other things in life.

    This rung particularly true with …

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  3. Why can’t I call my API RESTful?

    Semantic debates are fun, aren’t they? I can build an API and call it a REST API, then someone can say it isn’t truly REST and now we’re back to arguing about what is and isn’t REST. The most common point of contention is whether or …

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