Meltdown Lake
Brian, Brandon and Ryan discuss Meltdown and Spectre and just how big an issue they really are, thoughts on the powerful new iMac Pro, contemplate the nature of architectural decisions and where they are saved for reference, plus Twitter followees!
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Episode Summary
00:00:00 | Intro
Topics
00:00:57 | Meltdown and Spectre
- Project Zero: Reading privileged memory with a side-channel
- Meltdown and Spectre
- What’s behind the Intel design flaw forcing numerous patches? | Ars Technica
- Exploiting Speculative Execution (Meltdown/Spectre) via JavaScript | React, etc. Tech Stack
- PDF: keystroke_js.pdf
- Amazon: Intel Meltdown patch will slow down your AWS EC2 server • The Register
- Graham Sutherland [Polynomial^DSS] on Twitter: "Explainer on #Spectre & #Meltdown: When a processor reaches a conditional branch in code (e.g. an 'if' clause), it tries to predict which b… https://t.co/heyKXPU0I4"
- Nicole Perlroth on Twitter: "1. Apparently I don't know how to thread, so here goes my second attempt at blasting you with critical news on this "Intel Chip problem" whi… https://t.co/GsdewuYG4a"
00:23:22 | iMac Pro
- iMac Pro - Apple
- Cabel Sasser on Twitter: "⚠️ iMac Pro Alert! Apple (amazingly/unprecedentedly?) provided me with a loaner iMac Pro a few days ago to check out, and in turn, I'm very… https://t.co/os6SCdYuDU"
- ATP 252
- ATP 253
00:29:22 | Mac Mini: Not Dead
00:31:39 | Plain Text Documentation
- Technology Trends for 2017 | Technology Radar | ThoughtWorks
- Blog | Documenting Architecture Decisions | Relevance
00:54:05 | New Twitter Followees
- Joel Weinberger (@metromoxie) | Twitter
- Quizzie McGuire (@ScottRogowsky) | Twitter
- Metropologeny (@metropologeny) | Twitter
- Sarah Drasner (@sarah_edo) | Twitter
- Jonathan Levin (@Morpheus______) | Twitter
- Nadieh Bremer (@NadiehBremer) | Twitter
- Kent C. Dodds (@kentcdodds) | Twitter
- 1 Second Every Day 2017 - YouTube