PodKit #35: 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!

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!


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

The Mac mini isn’t dead yet, says Tim Cook | Ars Technica

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

01:03:12 | Outro

This episode of PodKit has a Fringe episode. You should really listen to The Fringe #458: PK #35 — Snarky Name!

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