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Vicki Boykis
vicki.substack.com · Personal blog · on HN since 2019
Vicki Boykis is a data and machine learning engineer who writes a newsletter on tech, the internet, and data engineering.
What HN saysHN links it for her posts on Russia's internet, Saudi money in Silicon Valley, Keybase, and the argument that many projects don't need Kafka.
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- 1Many use cases don’t require Kafka (2019)6 people · 154 points · first shared 2019 · 124 comments on HN
- 2What does it mean for American innovation to be backed by oil wealth?3 people · 397 points · first shared 2019 · 153 comments on HN
- 3What's Up with Russia's Internet3 people · 12 points · first shared 2019 · discussion on HN
- 4Keybase and the Chaos of Crypto3 people · 8 points · first shared 2019 · discussion on HN
- 5When the Internet Stopped in Belarus2 people · 30 points · first shared 2020 · 7 comments on HN
- 6One Bad Apple2 people · 7 points · first shared 2020 · discussion on HN
- 7Nginx: When you write a web server but you get served2 people · 5 points · first shared 2020 · discussion on HN
- 8Why don't we get the news we need?2 people · 5 points · first shared 2020 · discussion on HN
- 9The Curse of Being Big on the Internet2 people · 5 points · first shared 2019 · 1 comments on HN
- 10The Art of the Long Goodbye2 people · 5 points · first shared 2022 · discussion on HN
- 11The average opinion of 10k people in SF2 people · 4 points · first shared 2020 · discussion on HN
- 12Our bosses live in our phones2 people · 4 points · first shared 2019 · 1 comments on HN
- 13Google and the Nothing2 people · 3 points · first shared 2020 · discussion on HN
- 14Google Drive is production – Look at me, I'm the source of truth now2 people · 3 points · first shared 2021 · discussion on HN
- 15Big Recsys Redux: Recs at Netflix2 people · 2 points · first shared 2019 · discussion on HN
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kosasbest · 2022-02-26
Further reading on Russia and its beloved Internet: https://vicki.substack.com/p/whats-up-with-russias-internet
daturkel · 2020-07-24
This is actually a very interesting point that I've come across on a few different platforms recently (Patreon, for example, [also targets their homepage to creators, not consumers](https://www.patreon.com/)). I wonder if Substack just doesn't want to deal with opening the door to some newsletters getting "free promotion" by being features on their homepage? Nonetheless, I'd love to see "trending" or "editors picks" or something.
Nonetheless, here are some I subscribe to:
Big, by Matt Stoller (about monopolies): https://mattstoller.substack.com/
Margins (about business and tech): https://themargins.substack.com/
Flow State (music): https://flowstate.substack.com/
Normcore tech (tech, data science): https://vicki.substack.com/
The Passion Economy (business): https://passion.substack.com/
m_a_g · 2021-02-26
The saddest part is that SV runs on Saudi cash.
https://vicki.substack.com/p/silicon-valley-runs-on-saudi
nemild · 2019-12-08
More in this post too:
https://vicki.substack.com/p/keybase-and-the-chaos-of-crypto
> All of a sudden, I started receiving lots of random messages from people without profile pictures.
> These were people I didn’t know contacting me on a pretty frequent basis, and I had no way to opt-in to their messages. Pretty ironic for a platform built on privacy.
> I wasn’t the only one. After asking around, it seems that everyone I knew on Keybase was getting these. But of course, women with female names and profile pictures got a lot more than most men I knew. Other women online were experiencing it, too.
hdra · 2019-10-09
According to [0], apparently at least some of them are involved with exploring fancy over-engineered tech-stacks
[0](https://vicki.substack.com/p/you-dont-need-kafka)