The Weekly Squeak - Jean Georges Perrin, Apache Spark, and Open Source

Latest podcast - Apache Spark with Jean Georges Perrin

In this episode I speak with Jean Georges Perrin about his forthcoming book "Spark in Action", where we cover Apache Spark, writing books, and why many are wrong about IBM. 

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New game - One day the World ended

For some time I've been working with a short dark comedy fiction idea called "one day the World ended" that proposed how the world might end and what might come next. Those stories will be back soon, but in the meantime I created a small story-driven role play game that generates random characters and scenarios.

It might make more sense if you visit onedaytheworldended.com and read the rules 😁.

I decided to play more games and bought my first controller in decades

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