Tag: libraries
November 2025 Reading List
Reviews of November 2025 reads, including Simon Jimenez's The Vanished Birds and The Phoenix Pencil Company, with ratings and notes on each.
Nathan Flurry - Rivet - The Future of Serverless is Stateful
Nathan Flurry reveals how Rivet evolved from multiplayer gaming platform to general-purpose stateful serverless computing with actor frameworks as first-class primitives.
New Features For MSAL Python - Managed Identity and macOS Broker
Recent additions to MSAL Python - managed identity support for Azure-hosted services and a new macOS authentication broker for richer interactive sign-in flows.
Simpler MSAL Logins With The Windows Auth Broker
Use the Windows Web Account Manager (WAM) broker with MSAL to delegate OAuth token acquisition to the OS and skip redirect URL plumbing in client apps.
Faster Excel Parsing in Ruby
Parsing lots of Excel sheets and worried about memory usage or CPU time? These benchmarks may offer a better way.
The Windex Problem
The problem with information literacy we have in the age of Google: We give up too early. It’s an issue research librarians are struggling to tackle.
Honey, I Shrunk The Page
Microfiche (or microfilm, depending on how you roll) is a library mainstay, but its history is wild, according to this note I got from a carrier pigeon.