In case you also couldn’t guess the “f” in TfL, it’s Transport for London.

https://tfl.gov.uk/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_for_London

Microsoft can't name a project leading with a trademark (Linux <something>), hence why it's called WSL.

Source: https://x.com/richturn_ms/status/1245481405947076610?s=19

> products we couldn’t manufacture ourselves even if we wanted to, since the vendor has well-deserved IP protections

That's something I hadn't though about in the context of tariffs with interesting implications.

Does following IP rules mean that any products and technologies that wont manufacturer in the US but holds IP protections become subject to a permanent tariff? Giving countries a permanent 125% advantage over US businesses when using that IP?

What's the plan here?

Many moons ago, William Gibson did a piece for Wired about his obsession with mechanical watches[1]. The whole thing is worth a read but this bit is worth quoting:

""" Mechanical watches are so brilliantly unnecessary.

Any Swatch or Casio keeps better time, and high-end contemporary Swiss watches are priced like small cars. But mechanical watches partake of what my friend John Clute calls the Tamagotchi Gesture. They're pointless in a peculiarly needful way; they're comforting precisely because they require tending.

And vintage mechanical watches are among the very finest fossils of the pre-digital age. Each one is a miniature world unto itself, a tiny functioning mechanism, a congeries of minute and mysterious moving parts. Moving parts! And consequently these watches are, in a sense, alive. They have heartbeats. They seem to respond, Tamagotchi-like, to "love," in the form, usually, of the expensive ministrations of specialist technicians. Like ancient steam-tractors or Vincent motorcycles, they can be painstakingly restored from virtually any stage of ruin. """

https://web.archive.org/web/20240930092315/https://www.wired...

I have 'wiz' lights in my place - home-networked lighting system. Which works. Well. For me....so glad g hasn't acquired them.

Hi Matt,

Asking for a take-home challenge is a big ask without any form of human interaction first. Are you open to me asking a few questions over email or a video chat so I can gauge if your company would be a good fit for me?

    curl -X POST "https://apply-to-avantos.dev-sandbox.workload.avantos-ai.net" \
      -H "User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/133.0.0.0 Safari/537.36" \
      -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
      -d '{"email": "<your-email>"}'

Gross