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A Catholic service is called Mass. It begins with the introductory rite when the priest processes into the sanctuary, usually accompanied by deacons and altar servers.

After a hymn is sung, the people stand to hear three or four Scripture readings. The homily explains the meaning of those readings.

Introductory Rites

The Introductory Rites of a Catholic Services Mass are the beginning of the liturgy and prepare us to celebrate the Eucharist. They include an entrance procession, a gathering song, a greeting and the penitential rite.

After the introductory rites, the priest offers a prayer from The Roman Missal. This prayer collects and unites our personal prayers as a congregation, with the universal prayers of the Church, including those for this season or feast day.

When the priest or deacon opens his book and cues you to stand, walk up to your pew (reverence the tabernacle on the way) and hold it as shown below. This helps the celebrant turn the pages. When the Collect is finished, return to your seat, making sure to reverence the tabernacle again as you do so. Then begin to reflect on the readings. This can be done during your quiet time at home or by listening to the podcasts offered by Denver Catholic.

Liturgy of the Word

A recent article in a national magazine featured a Catholic family that expressed concerns about the structure of worship and felt that it stifled genuine praise and sincerity. They also felt that the liturgy was overly complicated and obtrusive with repetitive responses, holy water and strange gestures.

Christians gather to hear God’s word and are transformed by it as they grow in faith more conformed to the mind of Christ. The Liturgy of the Word begins with a greeting by the priest or deacon: “The Lord be with you.” Then the first reading from the Hebrew Scriptures is read. It is generally chosen to harmonize with the Gospel reading and reveals continuity between Israel and Jesus who comes not to replace but fulfills Israel.

Then the second reading from the Epistles (letters of the New Testament) is read. A homily is then given. Homilies are either moral and hortatory or they are simply on a topic of the day or on a moral or doctrinal issue. The Nicene Creed or, especially during Eastertide and Lent, the Apostles’ Creed is then professed.

Liturgy of the Eucharist

The Eucharistic Liturgy consists of the Preparation and Offering of the Gifts, the Eucharistic Prayer and Communion. It is based on Christ’s actions at the Last Supper, when He took bread and wine, gave thanks, broke it and gave it to his disciples.

After the Introduction and Penitential Act we hear one or more readings from

Scripture, followed by a homily or sermon (or both), which draws on some aspect of the proclaimed readings. Then comes the recitation of the Apostles’ or Nicene Creed, if appropriate to the occasion.

After the recitation of the creeds and other brief prayers, we prepare to receive communion by having our hands blessed by the priest or deacon. This is an excellent opportunity to be mindful of our need for God’s forgiveness and renewal. Then we sing or say the Eucharistic Prayer. This is a moment of great mystery and great beauty!

Concluding Rites

As the Mass draws to a close, the priest gives a blessing Orthodox services. This is a solemn act of sanctification that calls upon God's aid for the faithful, so that they may go forth from the Mass renewed in their zeal for their mission and strengthened to resist evil and grow in their spiritual lives.

After the blessing, the priest reverences the altar (and if there is one present, the tabernacle) and bows profoundly to it. This is followed by the Dismissal.

Sometimes there is a brief set of pastoral announcements before the Dismissal. These indicate ways in which the assembly can live out during the coming week the commitment that was made at the Eucharist: for example, by assisting refugees, by gathering for evening prayer on Wednesday, by offering transport to elderly people and so on. Then, after the Dismissal, the Recessional Chant or Hymn begins. This accompanies the priest and servers as they process out of the church.

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AI’s Capacity Revolution: What Lies Beyond the Horizon?

Which capacity advancements will AI bring about?

Working in storage is exciting right now. In the IT sector, a seismic shift is about to occur. It centers on how artificial intelligence (AI) will alter our expectations of what computers can accomplish for us and how we design and construct servers. Generative AI is generating a lot of excitement in both the public and industry.

When ChatGPT first appeared earlier this year, people’s expectations were sparked by the idea that a machine could comprehend questions we ask in natural language, have a discussion with us about any topic, and even compose poetry and rhymes like a person. Or the several AI models for picture production that, when given basic language inputs from the user, are capable of producing breathtaking visual masterpieces.

There is a significant need for higher bandwidth memory, or HBM, due to the quick development of AI. These days, HBM solutions are more in demand than gold. The need for a greater capacity memory footprint on the CPU is being driven by large language models (LLM) in order to handle progressively larger and more complicated models. Although the benefits of increased memory bandwidth and capacity are well acknowledged, storage’s contribution to the development of artificial intelligence is sometimes overlooked.

What part does storage play, and how important is it in AI workloads?

Two places will have a significant impact from storage. One is the fast local storage that serves as a cache for training data that is sent into the GPU’s HBM. A high-performance SSD is used due to the performance requirements. The storage of all training datasets in huge data lakes is another essential function of storage.

Nearby cache disk

Human-generated content from books, dictionaries, and the internet is used to teach LLMs. Large data blocks are read in order to prefetch the following batch of data into memory during the structured input/output pattern to the training data on the local cache drive. Therefore, in conventional LLMs, GPU computation is typically not hampered by the SSD’s speed. Other AI/ML models that place more strain on the local cache drive include computer vision and mixed mode LLM+CV. These models demand larger bandwidths.

Graph Neural Networks (GNN) are widely employed in fraud detection, network intrusion, and deep learning recommendation models (DLRM) for product suggestion. There are instances when the DLRM is called the biggest online income generating algorithm. GNN training models often access data in smaller block sizes and with greater randomness.

They have the potential to seriously impair the local cache SSD’s performance and cause costly GPUs to idle. In order to relieve this performance constraint, new SSD functionalities are needed. Working with industry experts, Micron is actively developing solutions. At SC23 in Denver, we will showcase some of this work and show how the GPU and SSD can work together to accelerate some I/O-intensive processing times by up to 100x.

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Big-capacity SSDs will become the preferred storage medium for big data lakes. Larger capacity HDDs cost less ($/TB), but they also slow down (MB/s / TB). The ability of massive data lakes to power-efficiently source the kind of bandwidth (TB/s) required for large AI/ML GPU clusters will be seriously challenged by HDD sizes greater than 20TB.

In contrast, SSDs offer high performance and, when designed with specific uses in mind, may provide the necessary capacities at power (8x lower Watt/TB) and even lower electrical energy (10x lower kW-hr /TB) levels than HDD. The data center has more power now that more GPUs can be added. Currently, Micron is integrating its 32TB high-capacity data center SSD into many object stores and AI data lakes. In the future, capacities for 15-watt SSDs that can each provide several GB/s of bandwidth will increase to 250TB.

How may AI impact the market for NAND flash storage?

First, data is needed for every new AI/ML model to “learn” from during training. According to IDC estimates, the quantity of data created annually surpassed the amount of storage purchased annually beginning in 2005. This implies that certain data must become transient. The monetary value of the data can only be established by the user, as will when that cost of purchasing more space for preserving the material overcomes its worth.

Modern machines output hundreds of magnitude more data per day than humans can handle. Examples of these machines include cameras, sensors, IoT, jet engine diagnostics, packet routing information, swipes, and clicks. AI/ML algorithms may now benefit greatly from machine-generated data that people were previously unable or did not have the time to evaluate in order to extract important and valuable information. The need for storage should increase as AI and ML become more prevalent since they should make this data more valuable to keep.

AI data lakes house this training set. These data lakes have characteristics of higher-than-normal access density to allow a high mixing of preprocessing and intake while concurrently feeding an increasing number of GPUs per cluster.

Additionally, a lot of retraining is done on the data, which means that there is frequently little “cold” data. Large-capacity, power-efficient SSDs are a far better fit for that workload profile than conventional HDD-based object storage. These data lakes may be hundreds of petabytes in size and are used for computer vision applications like DLRM and autonomous driving. The capacity and quantity of these data lakes will increase, creating a significant growth potential for NAND flash SSDs.

NAND flash storage will be more and more necessary as AI models develop and increase in order to sustain their exponential performance development.

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Sound Judgment Season Three Is Here: Masterclass for Speakers, Storytellers & Hosts

I did a talk in front of third-graders last week about writing. Now, I know this audience is not known for its discriminating tastes in speakers. After all, it wasn't a TED Talk. 

Normally, in large groups, I'm about as interesting as Mike Pence on Xanax. You may not believe this (You can call Jaden's Mom to verify), but I was good. Better than past performance would indicate. 

Why? Because I've been a faithful listener of the Sound Judgment podcast. Now, I know that the podcast focuses on audio storytelling more in a podcast format, but I've picked up a lot of helpful tips in the first two seasons. I'm not sure if I should tip the host, Elaine Appleton Grant. I mean, is 15 percent the standard for servers and podcast hosts of extraordinary skill? 

Anyway, my learning -- and hopefully yours as well -- continues because Sound Judgment just launched a third season, taking listeners into the studios — and the minds — of your favorite audio storytellers. Unlike virtually every other show about podcasting, Sound Judgment explores the audio storytelling craft, not the business of podcasting. In each episode, journalist Elaine Appleton Grant and a top audio creator deconstruct an episode of the guest’s show. It’s not just a revealing conversation about the art and craft of audio storytelling, it’s a sound-rich narrative interview: Grant plays back clips from her guest’s podcast. Together, they explore the storyteller’s creative choices in a “living-learning lab.” In its first year, the critically acclaimed podcast has been called “your online master’s degree in audio storytelling” by Whisper, Speak, Roar Media; “a masterclass in podcasting” by Ear Worthy, and “required listening for our profession” by the supervising podcasting producer at ABC News. Grant made Ear Worthy’s list of the ten best podcast interviewers, just behind Audie Cornish. Tink Media’s Lauren Passell gives Sound Judgment “456654 stars!” and says “The takeaways at the end are hugely valuable.”

  Classy’s Jonathan Menjivar, of Audacy's Pineapple Street Studios and alum of Fresh Air and This American Life, sharing strategies and self-doubts on the challenge of making a gripping podcast about class in America (September 28) Upcoming episodes include: ● Iconic host Anna Sale of Death, Sex and Money, revealing her interviewing and tone-setting techniques (October 12) ● Nikki Boyer, of Wondery’s hit podcast Dying for Sex and Dying for Media/Lemonada’s Near Death on her passion for uncomfortable conversations; ● Showrunner Karen Given of Dear Media’s scam podcast Believable: The Coco Berthmann Story on following a twisty investigation; ● Ronald Young, Jr. on Weight for It, a podcast for fat folks and all folks who can't keep weight off their minds.  ● And many more. More and more serious creators are eager to improve the quality of their content as the measure of success in podcasting shifts away from downloads to what really matters: listener engagement and loyalty. And they’re seeking as much learning about storytelling and hosting as they can find — especially from the artists they admire the most. Not only does Sound Judgment provide a valuable “fly on the studio wall” experience to hosts, producers, and editors eager to learn from masters of the craft, it also serves as a discovery engine. Listeners often binge-listen to the shows to which they’re introduced on Sound Judgment, becoming fans in the process. Host Elaine Appleton Grant is a magazine journalist (Inc Magazine, Fortune Small Business, AARP The Magazine, US News & World Report) turned award-winning public radio broadcaster and podcast producer (NPR affiliates and Wondery's Business Wars Daily, American History Tellers and American Scandal). Sound Judgment is a production of Denver-based Podcast Allies, LLC. Podcast Allies is an audio production and consulting firm offering services to public media, mission-driven organizations, and higher ed. 

You don't have to be in the podcast business to gain insight into hosting, public speaking, or storytelling. Sound Judgment can help you in your everyday life become a better and more interesting communicator. 

If you don't believe me, just ask Jaden's Mom.

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Deploy laravel project with docker swarm We check three major step in this guide Setup laravel project with docker compose Deploy the stack to the swarm Create gitlab-ci Setup laravel project with docker compose we will explore the process of deploying a laravel project using docker swarm and setting up a CI/CD pipline to automate the deployment process. Now let’s start with containerize a laravel project with docker compose we need three separate service containers: An app service running PHP7.4-FPM; A db service running MySQL 5.7; An nginx service that uses the app service to parse PHP code Step 1. Set a env variable in project In root directory of project we have .env file now we need to update some variable DB_CONNECTION=mysql DB_HOST=db DB_PORT=3306 DB_DATABASE=experience DB_USERNAME=experience_user DB_PASSWORD=your-password Step 2. Setting up the application’s Docekrfile we need to build a custom image for the application container. We’ll create a new Dockerfile for that. Docker file FROM php:7.4-fpm # Install system dependencies RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y \ git \ curl \ libpng-dev \ libonig-dev \ libxml2-dev \ zip \ unzip # Clear cache RUN apt-get clean && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* # Install PHP extensions RUN docker-php-ext-install pdo_mysql mbstring exif pcntl bcmath gd # Get latest Composer COPY --from=composer:latest /usr/bin/composer /usr/bin/composer # Set working directory WORKDIR /var/www Step 3. Setting up Nginx config and Database dump file In root directory create a new directory called docker-compose Now we need two other directories, a nginx directory and mysql directory So we have this two route in our project laravel-project/docker-compose/nginx/ laravel-project/docker-compose/mysql/ In nginx directory create a file called experience.conf we write nginx config in this file like: server { listen 80; index index.php index.html; error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log; access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log; root /var/www/public; location ~ \.php$ { try_files $uri =404; fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$; fastcgi_pass app:9000; fastcgi_index index.php; include fastcgi_params; fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name; fastcgi_param PATH_INFO $fastcgi_path_info; } location / { try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string; gzip_static on; } } In mysql directory create a file called init_db.init we write mysql initialization in this file like: DROP TABLE IF EXISTS `places`; CREATE TABLE `places` ( `id` bigint(20) unsigned NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, `name` varchar(255) COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci NOT NULL, `visited` tinyint(1) NOT NULL DEFAULT '0', PRIMARY KEY (`id`) ) ENGINE=InnoDB AUTO_INCREMENT=12 DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8mb4 COLLATE=utf8mb4_unicode_ci; INSERT INTO `places` (name, visited) VALUES ('Berlin',0),('Budapest',0),('Cincinnati',1),('Denver',0),('Helsinki',0),('Lisbon',0),('Moscow',1); Step 4. Creating a multi container with docker-compose We need a building three container that should share networks and data volumes. Ok so create a docker-compose file in root directory of project For craete a network for connecting services we define network in docker-compose file like this: networks: experience: driver: bridge App service: app: build: context: ./ dockerfile: Dockerfile image: travellist container_name: experience-app restart: unless-stopped working_dir: /var/www/ volumes: - ./:/var/www networks: - experience DB service: db: image: mysql:8.0 container_name: experience-db restart: unless-stopped environment: MYSQL_DATABASE: ${DB_DATABASE} MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: ${DB_PASSWORD} MYSQL_PASSWORD: ${DB_PASSWORD} MYSQL_USER: ${DB_USERNAME} SERVICE_TAGS: dev SERVICE_NAME: mysql volumes: - ./docker-compose/mysql:/docker-entrypoint-initdb.d networks: - experience Nginx service: nginx: image: nginx:1.17-alpine container_name: experience-nginx restart: unless-stopped ports: - 8000:80 volumes: - ./:/var/www - ./docker-compose/nginx:/etc/nginx/conf.d networks: - experience So our docker-compose file be like this: version: "3.7" services: app: build: context: ./ dockerfile: Dockerfile image: travellist container_name: experience-app restart: unless-stopped working_dir: /var/www/ volumes: - ./:/var/www networks: - experience db: image: mysql:8.0 container_name: experience-db restart: unless-stopped environment: MYSQL_DATABASE: ${DB_DATABASE} MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: ${DB_PASSWORD} MYSQL_PASSWORD: ${DB_PASSWORD} MYSQL_USER: ${DB_USERNAME} SERVICE_TAGS: dev SERVICE_NAME: mysql volumes: - ./docker-compose/mysql:/docker-entrypoint-initdb.d networks: - experience nginx: image: nginx:alpine container_name: experience-nginx restart: unless-stopped ports: - 8100:80 volumes: - ./:/var/www - ./docker-compose/nginx:/etc/nginx/conf.d/ networks: - experience networks: experience: driver: bridge Step 5. Running application with docker compose Now we can build the app image with this command: $ docker-compose build app When the build is finished, we can run the environment in background mode with: $ docker-compose up -d Output: Creating exprience-db ... done Creating exprience-app ... done Creating exprience-nginx ... done to show information about the state of your active services, run: $ docker-compose ps Well in these 5 simple steps, we have successfully ran our application. Now we have a docker-compose file for our application that needs for using in docker swarm. Let’s start Initialize docker swarm. After installing docker in your server *attention: To install Docker, be sure to use the official documentation install docker check docker information with this command: $ docker info You should see “swarm : inactive” in output For activate swarm in docker use this command: $ docker swarm init The docker engine targeted by this command becomes a manager in the newly created single-node swarm. What we want to use is the services of this docker swarm. We want to update our service like app with docker swarm, The advantage of updating our service in Docker Swarm is that there is no need to down the app service first, update the service, and then bring the service up. In this method, with one command, we can give the image related to the service to Docker and give the update command. Docker raises the new service without down the old service and slowly transfers the load from the old service to the new service. When running Docker Engine in swarm mode, we can use docker stack deploy to deploy a complete application stack to the swarm. The deploy command accepts a stack description in the form of a Compose file. So we down our docker compose with this command: $ docker-compose down And create our stack. ok if everything is ok until now take a rest Deploy the stack to the swarm $ docker stack deploy --compose-file docker-compose.yml For example : $ docker stack deploy --compose-file docker-compose.yml staging Probably you see this in output: Creating network staging_exprience Creating service staging_nginx failed to create service staging_nginx: Error response from daemon: The network staging_exprience cannot be used with services. Only networks scoped to the swarm can be used, such as those created with the overlay driver. This is because of “driver: bridge” for deploying your service in swarm mode you must use overlay driver for network if you remove this line in your docker compose file When the stack is being deployed this network will be create on overlay driver automatically. So our docker-compose file in network section be like this: networks: experience: And run upper command: $ docker stack deploy --compose-file docker-compose.yml staging For now you probably you see this error : failed to create service staging_nginx: Error response from daemon: The network staging_experience cannot be used with services. Only networks scoped to the swarm can be used, such as those created with the overlay driver. Get network list in your docker: $ docker network ls Output: NETWORK ID NAME DRIVER SCOPE 30f94ae1c94d staging_experience bridge local So your network has local scope yet because in first time deploy stack this network save in local scope and we must remove that by: $ docker network rm staging_experience After all this run command: $ docker stack deploy --compose-file docker-compose.yml staging Output: Creating network staging_experience Creating service staging_app Creating service staging_db Creating service staging_nginx Now get check stack by: $ docker stack ls Output: NAME SERVICES staging 3 And get service list by: $ docker service ls Output: If your REPLICAS is 0/1 something wrong is your service For checking service status run this command: $ docker service ps staging_app for example And for check detail of service run this command: $ docker service logs staging_app for example Output of this command show you what is problem of your service. And for updating your a service with an image the command you need is this: $ docker service update --image "<your-image>" "<name-of-your-service>" --force That's it your docker swarm is ready for zero down time deployment :))) Last step for have a complete process zero down time deployment is create pipeline in gitlab. Create gitlab-ci In this step we want create a pipeline in gitlab for build, test and deploy a project So we have three stage: stages: - Build - Test - Deploy Ok let’s clear what we need and what is going on in this step . We want update laravel project and push our change in gitlab create a new image of this changes and test that and after that log in to host server pull that updated image in server, and update service of project. For login to server we need define some variable in gitlab in your repository goto setting->CI/CD->VARIABLES Add variable Add this variables: CI_REGISTRY : https://registry.gitlab.com DOCKER_AUTH_CONFIG: { "auths": { "registry.gitlab.com": { "auth": "<auth-key>" } } } auth-key is base64 hash of “gitlab-username:gitlab-password” SSH_KNOWN_HOSTS: Like 192.168.1.1 ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAADAQABAAABgQCGUCqCK3hNl+4TIbh3+Af3np+v91AyW4+BxXRtHBC2Y/uPJXF2jdR6IHlSS/0RFR3hOY+8+5a/r8O1O9qTPgxG8BSIm9omb8YxF2c4Sz/USPDK3ld2oQxbBg5qdhRN28EvRbtN66W3vgYIRlYlpNyJA+b3HQ/uJ+t3UxP1VjAsKbrBRFBth845RskSr1V7IirMiOh7oKGdEfXwlOENxOI7cDytxVR7h3/bVdJdxmjFqagrJqBuYm30 You can see how generate ssh key in this post: generate sshkey SSH_PRIVATE_KEY: SSH_REMOTE_HOST: root@ This is your variables in gitlab. So let’s back to gitlab-ci In root directory of project create a new file .gitlab-ci.yml and set build stage set test stage And in the last set deploy stage like: stages: - Build - Test - Deploy variables: IMAGE_TAG: $CI_REGISTRY_IMAGE:$CI_COMMIT_REF_SLUG-$CI_COMMIT_SHORT_SHA build: stage: Build image: docker:20.10.16 services: - docker:dind script: - docker login -u $CI_REGISTRY_USER -p $CI_REGISTRY_PASSWORD $CI_REGISTRY - docker build --pull -f Dockerfile -t $IMAGE_TAG . - docker push $IMAGE_TAG preparation: stage: Test image: $IMAGE_TAG needs: - build script: - composer install artifacts: expire_in: 1 day paths: - ./vendor cache: key: ${CI_COMMIT_REF_SLUG}-composer paths: - ./vendor unit-test: stage: Test image: $IMAGE_TAG services: - name: mysql:8 alias: mysql-test needs: - preparation variables: APP_KEY: ${APP_KEY} MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: ${MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD} MYSQL_DATABASE: ${MYSQL_DATABASE} DB_HOST: ${DB_HOST} DB_USERNAME: ${DB_USERNAME} DB_PASSWORD: ${DB_PASSWORD} script: - php vendor/bin/phpunit staging-deploy: stage: Deploy extends: - .deploy-script variables: APP: "stackdemo_app" STACK: "travellist-staging" only: - develop needs: - unit-test environment: name: stage .remote-docker: variables: DOCKER_HOST: ssh://${SSH_REMOTE_HOST} image: docker:20.10.16 before_script: - eval $(ssh-agent -s) - echo $IMAGE_TAG - echo "$SSH_PRIVATE_KEY" | tr -d '\r' | ssh-add - - mkdir -p ~/.ssh - chmod 700 ~/.ssh - echo "HOST *" > ~/.ssh/config - echo "StrictHostKeyChecking no" >> ~/.ssh/config - echo -n $CI_REGISTRY_PASSWORD | docker login -u $CI_REGISTRY_USER --password-stdin $CI_REGISTRY .deploy-script: extends: - .remote-docker script: - cp $develop_config /root/project/core - docker pull $IMAGE_TAG - docker service update --image "$IMAGE_TAG" "$APP" --force dependencies: [] Change something in your project and push to gitlab and wait for it To see all pipeline pass like this : And this is beautiful. https://dev.to/holyfalcon/deploy-laravel-project-with-docker-swarm-5oi

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i think i have to unstan harry styles.

best weekend of my life (so far)

it's been a week [a fucking year] and I still haven't posted my review. at this point y'all know the show was awesome. hannah is posting her pics after a week straight of actually working (let's take up a collection to hire hannah to go to harry shows and produce exclusive content for us, what do you say?). after a week [a YEAR] away from the harrie commune all I can say is.... I don't know if I can continue on this way without it. i might have to stop altogether. [somehow, i’ve made due.]

after the last show of the 2018 tour I had such a fierce feeling that I'd missed out on something I would have really loved. there was nothing to do for it, since it was my sister's wedding day, so I moved on pretty quickly. but I also made the decision that for harry's next tour, I was going to go all out.

my dudes, what a way to ring in the new era. [and present me needs to interject here that i think i knew that something was going to go horribly wrong in 2020. even with tickets in hand to such faraway shows as phoenix, denver, and raleigh, i could NOT book flights or hotels as late as february. i knew about coronavirus in late december because i was traveling abroad and acutely aware of travel warnings about wuhan province. and in early february we had our mardi gras party and franny showed up kind of sick and i hugged her but cautiously, mentally cataloguing her symptoms. so when it finally happened i think i was just ... resigned. and that’s why i wasn’t as upset as i would have been if nothing had changed from the time i started writing this review.]

this kind of show always seemed like something that happened to other people. getting the actual tickets was rather stressful (though not as stressful an experience as others had...) but once everything shook itself out i couldn’t even think about the weekend or else I’d implode. thank god for @chasm2018‘s organizational abilities. 

we missed a measles exposure at LAX by 2 days (bless). my first harrie commune™ experience of the weekend was riding the connections shuttle to pick up @papiermachecat at terminal 6 like she was a conquering hero (she is). we rode the connections shuttle to pick up @stylesinthewild and found a little table at starbucks in the baggage claim to wait for the bay area harries to arrive in their rented minivan full of goodies.

we piled in and hannah got us to our two hotel rooms, one with three queen beds, and somehow we got to the forum twice, once to buy pre-show merch and then the final time for the fine line show. we all dressed up and then took just ONE picture. one.

you know how the show went. i’m trying to cover ground that the squad hasn’t already posted [a YEAR AGO]

here is the note I DM'd to harry the next morning, which i think sums everything up nicely:

thank you for the show last night at the forum. I flew in from Houston and met up with friends from all over, only one of whom I'd gotten to hug in real life prior to yesterday. today we're sharing beds and toothpaste and fond memories. thank you for being you and bringing us all together. 💜

i don’t remember WHEN i sent it, maybe 3am, but later that day i took an uber to a vegan tattoo artist’s backyard studio to get a planned tattoo that @papiermachecat had sketched for me and my impulse tattoo of a fine line around my left wrist. while i was doing that, the squad finished up eating breakfast with other harries and then went to stand in the pop-up shop line.

you’ve heard the line stories. i fucking LOVE standing in a line for something because of the people you meet. in front of us we had a personal DJ who’d play what people wanted to hear and airdropped a picture of harry’s dick from WMYB. we’d break off in pairs to go to CVS or visit other people we knew in line. and this hasn’t been written about before, but one of those times hannah and i were walking around the block we saw some men standing by some cars near the entrance and we kind of stopped.... and i think at the same time realized who we were looking at ... and after looking around and realizing that no one else in the fucking line recognized jeff azoff hannah went in for the kill. we thanked him for taking such good care of harry, answered questions he had for us, thanked him again, i had the presence of mind at the end to tell him our names, and we took the pop-up shop merch menus that hadn’t been passed out to anyone yet, and then walked back to our spot in line silently, processing that moment. sometimes i’ll think about that conversation and get all warm and fuzzy thinking about that show and how well it went and how much LOVE there was for everything and harry and between all of us and it sustains me through a shitty, shitty pandemic day at work.

eventually we got through the line and got our merch and looked at all the things they had set up and after moving our reservation back we got to cafe habana to sit at a very familiar table and i took off my bandages to show my tattoos to everyone (to this day i regret not having the presence of mind to show jeff my brand new fine line tattoo, he would have loved it) and we ate and laughed and had the server take our picture and that’s probably what i miss most about the weekend, being in that place imbued with such silly meaning to us and all FEELING that gravity of where we were and being able to recognize it in each others’ eyes and smiles. perfect weather, amazing food, the best company.

the early morning saw our three queen room breaking up, and @papiermachecat left a single zyrtec in the middle of the room on the floor, bringing me to tears laughing even without her physical presence. @chasm2018 and i went to randy’s donuts (where we met up with @treatpeoplewithnice again) and GOD i want to eat donuts that good again. 

it was sad to leave LA that afternoon, wearing my new tpwk oversized hoodie. it wasn’t the last time i was around a big crowd of people, wasn’t even the last concert i attended before all of this happened (that was in vienna on december 30), but it was the last time i was going to be full of unbridled joy. that weekend was the real ode to joy.

we’ll get back to it, it’s just going to take some time.

@stylesinthewild, @papiermachecat, @greeneyesharry & emily, @treatpeoplewithnice, @aggresivelyfriendly, and @chasm2018: fine line forum squad forever in my heart. that weekend will always be so special to me for so many reasons and it wouldn’t have been the same without each and every one of you.

@accidentalharrie and @styloff - ONE of these times we’ll be in the same place for long enough to do more than hug and grin at each other.

@ferryboatpeak and @ticklefighthockey - it was great to meet you! and la who would have thought then our next meeting would be in the backyard of an airbnb sitting six feet apart because we don’t want to spread a disease?

to harry, who isn’t reading this but i need all of you who ARE to know my heart ... thank you for bringing these people into my life. this experience of being your fan has changed me in such profound ways that there’s really no way to express it. it’s less about you and more about those who love you like i do, and i love them. and you.

to jeff, thank you for taking such good care of harry and having his best interests at heart. 

to anne, thank you for raising such a good person and giving him to the world.

to camille, thank you for fine line. without you, that weekend doesn’t happen the way it did and i love that weekend. 

[system76]

System76 Spotlight with Adam Balla

Welcome to the first of an ongoing series where we get to know some of the amazing people behind System76! This week, we kick things off with one of our newest members, Adam Balla (AKA chzbacon), who has just joined the Marketing Team as our Content Producer. Learn what makes his content creation heart go pitter-patter, and why his electric smoker is his must-have cooking appliance.

When did you first become interested in Linux computer systems?

When my roommate introduced me to Slackware in 1999, he was working as a Linux system admin and he really got me interested in Linux. I was going to the Art Institute of Houston at the time for a Multimedia Design degree, and the thought that you could create your own desktop operating system really appealed to me. I didn’t need to stare at the same old tacky operating system I’d used for years.

I found myself, like many nerds of the era, at a Micro Center in the early 2000s rummaging through the discount software bins, trying to snag up multi-CD Linux distributions. This journey exposed me to several of today’s most popular Linux distros. One of those was SUSE Linux 5.3, of which I still keep the tattered book on a bookshelf as a reminder. I did however finally find my place in the world of Debian, which is where I essentially live today. Honestly not much has really changed other than using Pop!_OS as my main distribution—though like any Linux diehard, I still love to download, test, and sometimes install all the Linux.

When did you start becoming a champion for open source hardware and software?

It was a few years after that. Once I got back from the Art Institute and I was working in the area, we needed a server for the screen printing shop that I worked at. Knowing about Linux at that point, I was able to set up a server using consumer-grade gear that we could store all of our artwork and assets on. Moving forward, I set up a server for the newspaper that I worked at for a decade, which I know is still running to this day. After using Linux in that sort of environment and knowing it was good enough for a business, I knew it was good enough for me and my needs.

How did you get involved in content creation as a career?

My father was an engineer. When I was young I was always, like most kids, into drawing cars and doodles and cartoons, but I was used to having a drafting table at the house. Computing came around, and my father bought an IBM 486 and one of the original digitizing tablets, and so I got to play around with that. Eventually, he got upset because I was on the computer more than he was, so he bought me an IBM 386 to use.

Around 1995, my dad learned from a coworker about Photoshop. I begged him to get me a copy, and he finally did for Christmas. That’s when I started playing around in Photoshop and really fell into wanting to create for a living. Similar to what my father does, but maybe not as stringent in the decision that I make—no building is going to fall down from my creative process.

And that’s how I got into the whole content creation piece. I created a cover for the album of my high school bands and then started doing work for more local bands. Back then, there were no digital art courses, so I learned a lot by doing and trial/error.

What is your favorite part of the creative process?

Working together as a team during the initial brainstorming process. Going through all of the ideas and details, sometimes writing them down, sometimes not, and even laughing at myself at how ridiculous an idea may sound. I love the process of the very first step. I love to set the vision for the project work from there to turn that vision into reality.

How did you first learn about System76?

I first learned about System76 through Chris Fisher and Jupiter Broadcasting. I believe they were reviewing the Leopard Extreme in 2012, on what at that time was the Linux Action Show. That’s when I started to look at System 76 and their offerings and wondered if it would be better for me to build my own Linux desktop, or adopt something and support the open source community. It’s been a little while since then, and I’ve always kept my eye on System76. Then with the release of Thelio, that really pushed me to the point of, “Wow, these guys are creating their own beautiful custom chassis and they’re incorporating different materials together. What a beautiful machine.”

I was speaking to my wife (financial advisor) about purchasing one in 2019, and I spoke to Emma and some other people at System76 about my desire for one, and I don’t know how, but Emma encouraged me not to buy one! And then I was given the opportunity to come to System76 for the Superfan event, where I was fortunate enough to be one of a dozen people who were gifted a Thelio desktop. It sits on my desk to this day; I even bought a larger desk just so I could put it up there and see it every day. I really appreciate the humble beginnings of System76, and I’m so glad to finally be a part of this amazing team.

Let's get into that creative brain. What is your favorite viral video and/or ad, and why do you love it so much?

I have a few ads that I like. I’ve always liked Honda’s messaging and their ads.

I like these ads because of the way in which they go through their history and lineage and the way that Honda itself has marketed its products as “People First” products—very similar to when they introduced their motorcycles to the US with their “You meet the nicest people on a Honda,” campaign. I think that was in 1962, so this was during the height of the motorcycle gang craze. Then comes this little Japanese motorcycle company and markets their products in a completely opposite image from the rest of the industry. They dared to be different and it paid off for them. Selling over 100 million Honda Cubs since 1958. Being given the title of most produced motor vehicle in the world.

This may come as a surprise to some, but I also really love the original Orwellian-inspired Macintosh commercial, which only aired once during the 1984 Super Bowl. Created by Steve Hayden, Brent Thomas and Lee Clow. In my opinion, these guys really created disruptive advertising, so much so that the ad still resonates today as much as it did then. While I don’t think you need to incite fear to sell a product, it showed that Apple dared to be different.

I’m not sure what constitutes a viral video these days. I’m not sure if it’s having a billion trillion views or just simply infecting one person who saw your video. One that always gives me a chuckle has to be “News Anchor Laughs At Worst Police Sketch Fail”. The honesty on the anchor's face makes me lose it every time.

When you’re not helping to lead the Open Source revolution, what do you like to do with your free time?

I really like going on walks and taking photos. Photography to me is one of the last honest art forms. What you see really is what you get. I love to tinker and make things, I have a 3D printer that my wife and I purchased as a joint valentine’s gift to each other last year. We started using it right when COVID broke out, so we made around 900 face shields which we distributed to schools, day cares, dentist's offices, anyone who needed one. That’s what we did for about the first 6 months when we first got it. Now, my wife loves to print earrings, for example, and I like to build different fun electronics projects.

I also love to cook, especially for large groups. I just got done with an Easter Weekend + Birthday celebration where we cooked 100 lbs of crawfish, 10 lbs of pork shoulder, sausage, and boudin (which is basically rice and pieces of pork that have been mixed together with seasonings and then put into a casing like sausage). One of my main requirements actually for a place in Denver is somewhere I can bring my electric smoker. It’s a must-have for any Texan.

What are you most excited about with your new role here at System76? To help change the computing landscape as we know it today. Into a future where technology is free and open. A world where you're encouraged to break things, fix things, and learn how they work. Aside from changing the world and stuff, I'm really excited to have a chance to work with such an insanely talented group of people.

[changedlives]

Praise report

Shalom Bishop and Harvest fam,

 Today I received  an email from my case worker from the Denver rescue mission, an the email was filled  with amazing  news.  They been working with me on getting money together  for my first months rent, and normally  the she informed  me, the process  doesn't take this long, But every delay is to our Benefit.  I'LL GOT THE CHECK‼️ so my first month's  rent is covered  along with some to carry over because the time I'm  moving in they won't need the full 1,500 they only need half, but I still will get a check for the full amount.  When I read the email I had to pull  the car over and give God a praise. Bishop your words do not fall, 2nd half, and my 2nd half has shownuff  been better than the first. Harvest all I can say is trust God, Trust Bishop's  words, follow  his teachings, sow and server, sow and serve SOW AND SERVE. God is so good to me.

#2ndhalf #faithfulgiversflourish #ALLISWELL #Mynextisnow 

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Episode Review: "Just have a little faith, people." [S05E08]

So… can you dry your eyes long enough to work on this review?

Y: Excuse me, but how dare you?

L: I’m still dehydrated. This might be the first time ever that I really did not want to rewatch an episode. Or even think about it. In terms of fictional demises... Patterson’s is up there with Han Solo’s death on my list of “things I will never recover from.”

The case this week is two cases, actually, until… well, until it’s not a case at all. What exactly happened in those painful and intense 42 minutes?

L: Jane’s Cerberus tattoo shows up in a newspaper ad in three different cities: New York, Denver, and Cape Town; three towns where Jane has lived. The company in the ad doesn’t exist, but the tattoo decodes (sadly, we are not told how) to a secure FTP site, which contains a very complex, very processor-heavy digital puzzle that Patterson and Rich immediately start trying to crack.

But the tattoo is far from the only thing the team has to worry about. The tracker the Wellers placed on the cannisters of ZIP is moving, and Patterson and Rich locate it on a container ship heading across the Atlantic to the US. Even more worrying are the messages Ivy is sending to Madeline, “On the move. Ready to strike.” It looks like whatever Madeline is planning is going to happen soon. Trying to get ahead of the game, Rich hooks Kurt and Jane up with a ride on a cargo plane heading to the east coast with an unnamed friend of Rich’s in the “import/export business.”

Weller is still puzzling over the signal Allie gave in her interview. “Mission is a go.” He had assumed it was meant for him, but what mission? It would make more sense if she was signaling someone else, if she was working with someone to help the team and send them the tattoos. Tasha agrees that the timing would work out; the ads were placed after Allie’s press conference. Now that the team has received a third “message” from their mysterious friend, Patterson is able to figure out (again, sadly without a technical explanation) where the messages originated: Malta. The only person they know in Malta is Jake Keaton, who got exiled there by the CIA at the end of season four. He is a likely candidate to be helping the team, so Tasha sets out to pay him a visit.

Keaton confirms to Tasha that he sent the team the messages, helped by Allie and Boston. Boston went off the grid when the team rescued Rich, but he left the Cerberus puzzle with Keaton to release if one of them got caught. And Tasha tells Keaton that the team is tracking ZIP that Madeline is moving across the Atlantic to the US, where she plans to weaponize it. Before Tasha can tell him more, she realizes that his laptop camera is uncovered and pointed right at them. I love their last exchange: Tasha asks him how his family is—guessing correctly that Madeline is using them to control Keaton—and he confirms, “They’ve been better,” as they draw their weapons on each other. Tasha tries to help him, but they’re both trapped. Madeline bursts in, and Keaton tells Tasha, “Good luck,” before he tries take out Madeline and is shot himself in the process. Tasha doesn’t go down without a fight, but she ends the day in Madeline’s custody.

Patterson is still grinding away, trying to solve the Cerberus tattoo, without success. “Every time I solve one quadrant of this thing, the whole thing shifts and then it gives me another part to solve. It’s like it’s a... This puzzle is... toying with us.” She realizes with horror that longer they interact with the puzzle, the more hints at their location they are providing. And those hints have led Madeline and Ivy right to their door. Weller and Jane never make it out of the elevator; Ivy uses the local police to force them to surrender their weapons, knowing that they won’t kill cops to escape. Below them in the bunker, Patterson and Rich pack up to leave, setting bombs the server room to destroy any electronic evidence they leave behind. Unfortunately, there is no earth-shattering kaboom when Patterson flips the switch, so she has to go back to the server room to improvise a detonator timer out of her watch to trigger the explosives. Rich tries to divert Ivy’s team, but her goons get him, and under their gunfire, Patterson isn’t able to escape the server room before the detonator hits zero. And goddamn it, I will never be able to watch that scene without crying, but the whole sequence: flashing to the timer, to Rich, to Patterson mouthing “I’m sorry,” to the flames raining down behind the door, while the music drowns out everything but the sounds of my sobs... It’s horrible and awful and everything hurts, but it was so freaking well done. I’d say, “Bravo!” if I could get anything out besides sad dolphin noises.

This week delivers, by far, the biggest, most painful loss the team has ever suffered. Being captured by Madeline is bad. Losing Keaton as an ally and knowing that he betrayed the team rubs salt in the wound. But losing Patterson? There just aren’t words for this. This is a defeat that feels impossible to recover from. Madeline has won. And the thing that really gets me here is that this kind of all-hope-is-lost moment usually happens at the end of the penultimate episode of the season. But we still have three more episodes ahead of us. I’m happy we’re not quite at the end—because I will never be ready to say goodbye to our Tattoo Squad—but I’m also terrified because that means whatever is coming will be even worse before it (maybe) gets better.

But any way you look at it, this was a hell of an episode. It was masterfully cut from scene to scene, building intensity, and well, it also ripped my heart out, shredded it up, threw it on the floor, and stomped on the pieces. Well done, writers. You brilliant, unfeeling bastards.

Y: What is there to say here? I mean, Madeline found Keaton. Tortured enough intel out of him to be able to find the team. And then we cried. As far as how things have been going for our team, this week is the worst they’ve had since... forever? Four of them are in custody, one is dead, and their friends with means are locked up, in hiding, and dead. The only thing going for them is a lab tech and her not very trustworthy sidekick. Very very not good. Seriously, and I know it’s bad luck to say this, but can it even get any worse at this point? What are they gonna do? Shave Weller’s beard? Put him in another bad wig? I cannot handle any of this anymore!

It’s a good thing we watch the episode a few times before we properly start reviewing. The only thing I got from watching it live is the emotional impact, to be honest. It was such an intense and emotionally exhausting episode that it was really hard to pay attention to everything. But watching it a second time made me realize just how thematically heavy this episode was. And you know how I love a good thematically-rich episode.

Obviously most plot lines in this episode intersect, except maybe for what The Resistance was up to, but we try our best to break it up in a way that makes our lives easier and also makes it easier for you guys to keep track of our ramblings.

Anyway, everywhere you look in this episode you find one or two of these themes being tackled: the choices one makes and protecting one’s family. They’re not themes that are foreign to Blindspot, but this week they kind of take center stage.

These themes were ones almost every character had to deal with this week, and for the sake of this section, I just wanted to talk about Madeline Burke for a moment. It’s funny how we’re just coming off of Madeline making a very clear and controversial choice of zipping her own son, of choosing her mission over her child—over doing what should be the most instinctual thing for a mother to do. And this choice carries with her into this episode. It is a dark cloud that hovers her throughout the episode and it’s interesting how we see her try to project that guilt onto other people, mainly Tasha. What’s also interesting is comparing the choices that Madeline and Ivy for that matter make compared to the decisions that the team and their friends make, and for once on this show, the line between good and evil isn’t blurred.

I think the most important decision Madeline makes this week is to take the team in alive. We know she has no problem killing them—she did, after all, drone them in Iceland. I understand why she’d want the glory of being the one who captured them. But you know what, Maddie? This is one decision that’s going to come back to haunt you. You just arrested the four most dangerous people and you also killed their most precious Patty. I do not feel sorry for what they’re going to do to you.

L: We’ve been rooting for Madeline to get her comeuppance pretty much since the moment she arrived on our screens. But after this week... You know, I finally think I understand her hatred of the FBI after her father’s death. After watching what happened to Patterson—and then Madeline’s smug gloating about it—I think my hatred of her might be even stronger than her hatred of the FBI. And that’s good, because in a weird and twisted way, it’s helping me to relate to her.

Bad guys who are bad for the sake of being bad are boring. It’s the ones who are striving for a compelling goal, driven by some uncompromising motivation, that really get you invested in the battle to stop them. And similarly, a bad guy who is just bad is less interesting than one with a rigid, if somewhat inverted, moral code that they can’t compromise. That’s what made Shepherd such a great villain; she had horrible plans, yes, but she had this deep belief that she was actually helping to make the world a better place, and it meant she had to make hard sacrifices to reach that goal. All of which made her fascinating to watch on our screen.

For a long time, we struggled to understand what made Madeline tick. And because we didn’t really understand, it was hard to see her as the same kind of threat as Shepherd or even Crawford. Even after we learned about her father and how she blamed the FBI for his death, it was hard to translate that into something more than just distaste. But in the past few episodes, wow, she’s really turned the knob up to eleven.

Last week we saw an unprecedented degree of emotion from Madeline when she zipped Greg. And this week, we see even more. We see her dwelling on the trail of destruction she’s left in her wake. We see genuine fear when Tasha attacks her. And we see her replaying Tasha’s words in her head. “You zipped your own child. Was it worth it?” It’s not much by normal human standards, true, but it’s more than we’ve seen so far. Just as we root a little harder for a good guy who thinks about giving up before pressing on, a bad guy who falters for just a moment becomes that much more interesting to us.

Because it’s not just enough to bring Madeline down anymore. No, we need to see her know that she’s been beat. We need to see her recognize what it’s cost her. And we need to see her regrets, her recognition that it wasn’t worth the cost. It needs to be a defeat on absolutely every level, and it needs to be complete, without the slightest glimmer of hope left to her.

And honestly, after the crushing losses this week, focusing on that goal is what’s going to keep me (and the team, judging by their faces in the NYO at the end) going.

Y: One more thing I wanted to touch upon in this section is the choice of tattoo used in this episode. I think it’s safe to assume that this is the last tattoo the team is going to work on, and I love the choice of it being the Cerberus tattoo. Don’t worry, I’m not going to go too deep into Greek mythology and symbolism here, but it’s fun to consider these things, especially considering how important mythology has been to the show and how important visuals and graphics have been in the Blindspot universe.

Cerberus’s three heads are said to represent the past, the present, and the future—all of which are themes and topics that are essential to Blindspot’s narrative tools and mythology. And this tattoo, being the last one the team works on and ultimately being the key to their “demise,” is a powerful parallel to Cerberus being the final threshold and the last creature one encounters before crossing from one world to the other.

I’m sure there’s someone out there more equipped than I am to properly analyze all this, but in my humble understanding, I thought this was an interesting thing to bring up.

The Resistance is still resisting, even if they don’t exactly agree on how they should be going about it. How strong do we think their resolve is?

Y: You just gotta love The Resistance. For the most part they haven’t really been that successful, or at least they haven’t really been able to see the effect of their efforts, but they still try and try and try.

You also gotta love that this little resistance is made up of such an unlikely duo. Weitz, who for the most part has been a recurring character and generally an annoyance the team could never really get rid of. And then you have Afreen who up until last season was just a background character, and then just a bit part supporting character with a few lines every bunch of episodes. We didn’t really know much about her except that Patterson trusted her in the lab. Who knew she was such a total badass with an incorruptible moral compass and zero bullshit meter?

This week the Resistance gets access to Shirley’s computer and his database of bribery and blackmail. Because everyone has one of those on their desktop, right? After some back and forth, some banter, and some of Afreen’s trademark owning of Weitz, they decide that Afreen should corrupt the files to remove the leverage Madeline has on these people.

One of the best things about these two working together is that they cannot be more different in every aspect that matters, and Afreen has come out of nowhere to be the one person who can finally stand toe-to-toe with Weitz and really make him shake in his boots. Also, the chemistry between Aaron Abrams and Ami Sheth is just so good. Those two work so well off of each other, it’s almost magical. And they might be the C plot in the episodes where they appear, but they absolutely steal the show every single time.

Afreen is so morally incorruptible while Weitz is morally questionable. Afreen is driven by serving the greater good and doing the right thing, while Weitz flirts endlessly with what’s right and what’s right for him. Afreen has no tolerance for bullshit while Weitz… well I might be mistaken, but isn’t bullshit his middle name? Having these two work together is a stroke of genius by the writers.

Afreen is initially reluctant to work with Weitz. And then again reluctant to corrupt the files because it means she gives him an easy way out after finding out exactly what Madeline has on him. She’s so adamantly a champion of what’s right, and it’s a beautiful thing to watch, especially since she’s not a pushover. She puts her foot down and even though Weitz has the more senior job title, in this relationship, Afreen is the boss. And somehow, working with her has put Weitz’s redemption arc in high gear.

But the thing with Matthew is that… it’s always one step forward, ten steps back. He’s so infuriating. And after what just happened with Keaton, I really hope we don’t see Weitz relapse again. The good thing for Weitz is that he has Afreen there to kick his ass every time he screws up, something Keaton didn’t have. And Matthew Weitz just keeps getting all these second chances… but some day those second chances will stop coming and he will have to live with the last choice he made. So, Matthew… are you going to start making the right choices? Because we’re all really running out of time, and we need you to choose a side once and for all.

L: We are definitely seeing Afreen taking charge of Weitz in this episode, and words cannot express how much I love this. (At least one thing we didn’t see coming—this quirky partnership—is awesome, right?!) I love how she refuses to help him until he confesses all of his sins, all of the leverage Madeline has on him. She refuses to give him copies of Madeline’s blackmail files, telling him point blank that she thinks he’s just going to use them himself. And then she tells him to go get her a cup of coffee (and a blueberry scone!) while she works on corrupting Shirley’s files. And the best part of all of this is that Weitz—who is smarmy and self-serving but not stupid—realizes that he’s lost control of this situation and follows her lead. Weitz is many things, but he’s not a leader. He’s smart and able to figure out the right angle to make a situation work out to his benefit—whether he’s building a case against Mayfair or working his way in the directorship of the FBI—but he’s always struggled with assuming responsibility and giving direction to others.

Afreen is both lab-smart and people-smart, and she really understands what makes Weitz tick. “I know you want to be the kind of person that does the right thing. I just still don’t know if you will.” Because she understands him so well, she’s able to anticipate what he might do and cut him off at the pass—whether that is preventing him from using Madeline’s blackmail files for his own benefit or stopping him when he’s about to run away. In times of stress, we tend to revert to what is easiest and most familiar, and for Weitz, that is definitely covering his own ass. But Afreen won’t stop pushing him to be the better person that she knows he could be. Maybe it’s not quite as effortless as the team inspiring Rich to mend his crooked ways, but so far, it’s still been pretty effective. And I loved the way this played out in our second slow-motion, music-swelling scene of this episode, when Madeline and Ivy bring the team back into the NYO. Even though the team is mostly expressionless, you can see the panic and helplessness on Weitz’s face as they are paraded past. He truly believed that they were eventually going to succeed and return triumphant to take down Madeline, which would take the pressure off him to step up and save the day. But now that he knows they won’t, that he (and Afreen) are the only ones who are still able to stop Madeline. Your move, Matthew.

As much as I love the way Afreen seems so much braver than Weitz, I do want to note that she doesn’t have quite the same perspective he has. She’s aware that Madeline killed both Briana and Susan Shah, but she wasn’t there when Madeline cold-bloodedly gunned Briana down. There is a difference between being aware that something happened and experiencing it firsthand the way Weitz did. She is able to react to the threat Madeline poses intellectually. Weitz, on the other hand, has a far more visceral response. He’s reacting from his gut, his human instinct for self-preservation urging him to flee the impending danger. As much as I want to smack him and tell him to toughen up, I can’t entirely blame him for his all-too-human failings here.

But I am also even more worried now for Afreen. Everything she’s done up until now has been kind of behind-the-scenes, with no digital trail. Madeline might have her suspicions about Afreen, but nothing that she can prove. But breaking into Shirley’s computer from inside the NYO... where we know Madeline has every inch under surveillance... Afreen just stuck her neck out, and we know Madeline won’t hesitate to chop it off the second she figures out what Afreen was up to. Honestly, I kind of wish Weitz had turned the tables and convinced Afreen to leave town with him!

I also want to point out the tiny arc we see in Afreen in this episode. We see her begin to take charge of the lab, to assume control of it rather than just hold it until Patterson returns. She is rearranging the furniture—and clearing out the lab at lunchtime to work on special projects with Weitz. Which makes the moment at the end, when Madeline almost gleefully announces Patterson’s death to the lab team, even more poignant. No matter how much Afreen might have wanted to be in charge of the lab, we know that these are not the conditions under which she would have wanted it to happen. Turning the screens dark is such a quiet but powerful way to pay tribute to the person whose lab this truly was... That moment of data silence in Patterson’s honor once again makes me cry all the tears.

Y: Oh! The team’s return to the NYO! I cannot believe I almost forgot to talk about this! I realize I’ve said this about practically half the scenes I’ve talked about but this one is the absolute best. Seriously, probably one of my favorite sequences in Blindspot—the way it was shot and edited, the music, the close ups, the acting—everything was so good. Not a single word was spoken but so much emotion just burst through the screen. It was so chilling and menacing and heart breaking. Everyone involved did an absolutely spectacular job translating this momentous scene from paper to screen. From the smug look on Madeline’s face, to the terrifying death glare that never leaves Ivy’s face, to the shock on Weitz’s, the heartbreak on Afreeen’s, and then the pure rage on every single member of the team. And it’s impossible to forget that not only have they been arrested after fighting so hard against these false accusations, but they’re only a few hours into learning about Patterson’s death.

I hate this show.

In the last episode, two members of the mysterious group that has been secretly helping the team were unveiled. This week, we learn more about what they’ve been up to. How much help can the team hope for now?

L: Weller was right when he guessed that Allie was signaling someone else to continue the mission. And we were pretty excited when we learned that it was Keaton. But I’m even more excited now that we’ve gotten their “origin story.”

It’s no secret that we adore Allie, and finding out that she is essentially the ringleader of our band of renegades, recruiting both Keaton and Boston to her team, wasn’t really all that surprising. Allie has always been as strong as they come. She’s smart and she’s determined. And this is her family that’s at stake. Kurt may be a “mama bear” when it comes to protecting his “cubs,” but Allie is a literal mama bear. Her daughter’s happiness and safety are at risk, and Allie isn’t about to let Madeline destroy her family.

And this team just makes so much sense: Keaton has access to CIA intel but can’t move around. Boston has the tech skills to plant puzzles that will catch the team’s notice but can’t be easily cracked by their enemies. And Allie knows all about how to stay off the grid and escape the attention of law enforcement. (I especially loved the revelation that Allie was the one to trigger the screens in Times Square!) They really are an espionage dream team.

Y: One of my absolute favorite parts of the episode was the flashback we got to how the little group of vigilantes was formed. It’s no secret that the three people involved in it are among my favorite on the show, and I was still reeling from the reveal from last week. Although it didn’t end the way I would’ve wanted it to end, it was still a satisfying storyline in the episode because it was so well done.

Of course, I’m going to start with Allison Knight because Allison Knight is the absolute best. That’s a scientifically proven fact. I had no doubts that she’s the one who started all this and seeing her go straight into action just seconds into watching the news report on tv makes me love her even more. Allie is so fiercely protective of her family, and her loyalty to them and her faith in them is unwavering. It’s a joy to watch. I also sighed in relief to know she made sure Bethany (and I’m assuming Conor) is safe during all this.

Allie goes straight to Keaton which is a decision that does make a lot of sense. He’s worked with the team and knows that all these accusations are a lie. She knows he is good at his job and will be able to get access to information they need. And Allie being Allie, she doesn’t need to long to convince him.

Next is Boston, who in these few months has apparently become quite the successful artist and enjoying that life. But Boston is still Boston and we know he loves a good adventure. He also loves Rich and cares about this team a little bit, even if he won’t admit it. And given the chance to do some hacking and designing a theatrical event in Times Square? You know Boston will jump right on that!

L: The tattoos—and the complicated puzzles they represent—are the backbone of this show. They are artistic, challenging, and chock full of secrets. And let’s be real, they aren’t something that the average person, or even an above-average person like Allie or Keaton, can duplicate. Boston is one of the few characters on this show who can go to toe-toe with Patterson and Rich, and he might be the only one who can design tattoo references that only they can decode. So it makes complete sense that he would be the one to design these hidden messages.

I’ll admit I am still puzzling over the last tattoo, though. Keaton tells Tasha that Boston gave it to him and told him to release it if one of them got caught. But the tattoo is a trap that leads Madeline to the team. So either Keaton was lying about Boston designing it, or he was lying when he said that he didn’t know what it meant. If it was a trap that Madeline set, then someone on her team must have designed it. But who on her team has the technical savvy (and sheer geekiness) to set a trap to catch Patterson? Up until now, Ivy’s team has mostly seemed like just hired muscle. A trap like this would be far more sophisticated than anything we’ve seen them do thus far. So it’s more likely that Boston designed it and Keaton was Keaton lying to Tasha when he said that he didn’t know what it did. He knew it would allow someone to pinpoint the team’s location, and he told Madeline about it so she could use that information to capture the team. But in that case, what did Boston plan to use it for? And will its use draw him out of the woodwork (pretty please!) in the next episode?

Because, let’s face it, we need a superhero—or at least a skilled hacker—to sweep in here right now.

Y: That’s a pretty interesting question you ask… honestly I hadn’t thought about it much watching the episode—I was too busy stuffing chocolate into my face hole—but now that I do it’s worth contemplating. I don’t think the show is going to give us much of an answer but if I may venture a theory, I think that Boston did design it and he designed it to do just that. And they all knew what it does. Keaton said it was designed to be released when one of them gets captured.

I think in such a case, the other two would be compromised or in danger of being caught themselves. They knew that was a possibility and if it happened then they too would need to go on the run. But they would also still want to help the team. So maybe Boston designed it so that they could track down the team’s location so that the remaining members of this little group could join them. I don’t know… it seems a bit of a shaky theory, but I cannot see Boston purposely designing it to sabotage the team.

Speaking of sabotaging the team… let’s talk about Keaton now.

What sets Allie and Keaton apart in this group is that they both work for the government and the stakes are that much higher for them but so is the motive, the desire to set things straight because they’re entangled in this mess of corruption. Their entire careers and lives have been part of this, and moving forward they will be defined by how this unravels and their role in it.

Allie’s choices are clear and straightforward. She will protect her family—all of her family—no matter what. This includes Bethany and Conor, and it also includes Kurt and Jane and the others. We saw her last week, just how badass she is, and saw how she managed to do both. This is a woman whose moral compass is as straight as can be. Also, she’s totally the most awesome character in like... ever.

Is my Allie bias showing? Good. Because Allie deserves all the unabashed admiration that she can get.

As for Keaton, his situation, his journey and his character, while they bear some similarities to Allie’s, are also different. And the juxtaposition of Keaton’s choices with Allie’s from last week—and also for that matter Kurt’s for the past few episodes—explains why things ended the way they did for Jake. And I’m not going to lie, the Keaton stuff in this episode absolutely destroyed me. I’m a huge fan of Keaton and the journey the writers put him on and how they’ve taken a character we first met as Jane’s torturer and turned him into someone the team consider an ally and at least one team member considers a friend and see him go as far as betray his country to help them.

Which is why it was so hard watching this episode. A part of me just knew in that opening scene of someone being tortured that it would be Keaton. I don’t know why but I just did. And the poetic justice in all this has not gone over my head. The first episode we see him, Keaton is torturing Jane. And in the last episode we see him, Keaton is being tortured because of… well… Jane and the rest of her team. Can we count this as Keaton having paid for what he did to Jane? That it’s all come full circle?

I really feel horrible for Keaton. When we find out that he’s filming his meeting with Tasha and streaming the video to Madeline and essentially betraying the team, I felt a dagger go through my chest because this one really hurt. Keaton has come a long way and for the most part even though he and team never really saw eye to eye on most things and liked to be thorns in each other’s sides, he was always more or less on the same side as them. And that dynamic always worked. They didn’t especially enjoy working with him and he felt the same way but still, they always did for the greater good and it was always a good thing.

So that’s why when we found out he’s betraying the team I wanted to absolutely cry. But then we found out why he was doing that—what Ivy and Madeline had done to him and then Madeline having his family—and I wanted to cry some more. From the moment we truly started get to know Keaton, we’ve known that his daughter and his wife are his pressure point. And here’s where the parallel to both Allie and Kurt comes in. Keaton had a choice to make and he picked the one that he thought would protect his family. And for him, that was not really a choice because Madeline didn’t give him much of that. I mean, who wouldn’t make the choice that Keaton made in his situation?

Well, Kurt and Allie wouldn’t… but that doesn’t make me judge Jake honestly because he doesn’t have the faith and the support system that those two have. Allie had the advantage of knowing Madeline couldn’t touch her family. I have no idea where she’s hidden Bethany and Conor, but if anyone knows how to hide people, it’s Allie. And what Keaton also doesn’t have in this situation is the support system that Kurt has—essentially Jane. We saw Kurt come close to abandoning the mission and taking the risk of going after Ivy to try and negotiate and exchange for Allie in last’s week’s episode. And he probably would’ve done that if Jane had not been by his side to talk him out of it and promise him that there is another way of doing this. Keaton didn’t have any of that. He just had the “help us or we kill your family” choice and he did what any father put in this situation would do.

I really hate Madeline for doing this to him. To all of them but you know, in this situation… she made Keaton have his last act be one of betrayal to the team. And honestly, Keaton doesn’t have the same experience with her as the team does. And Tasha is right when she says that there was no win for him in this. All Keaton had was Madeline’s word that helping her meant protecting his family. But you know he regretted it. You could read it all over his face in the last scene with Tasha. And it was so heartbreaking for both of them. These two had become close friends and to have things go down like this was hard to watch.

And watching Keaton spend most of this episode with Tasha reminded me of the season 2 finale, the first time those two really spent time together, and made me think of just how far they’ve come from then, and how far Keaton has come… We’ve said goodbye to a lot of characters this season—some main characters and some supporting—and as far as the latter category goes, this was absolutely the hardest to deal with, because it was not just the fact that Keaton died but how it all went down and how in the end he still tried to do the right thing despite everything.

Jake Keaton has had one of the most interesting arcs on this show. It may have been turbulent and unconventional and controversial and divisive, but dammit it was good. And now he is gone. And I am sad.

L: I am too.

Like you, somehow I knew that was Keaton when we saw Ivy torturing someone at the start of the episode. Maybe it’s because of the irony: In the first scene in the first episode where we see Keaton, he is the torturer, and in the first scene in this episode, he is being tortured. I can’t decide what applies better here: “What goes around comes around” or “Live by sword, die by the sword.” I’m gonna go with the second, because if there is one thing that we’ve learned about Keaton over the years, it’s that he’s a company man. He didn’t torture Jane because he took pleasure in it; he was trying to do his job, protecting the security of the US from someone who posed a threat to it. He worked hard at his job for his country and for his family. Even though we didn’t like some of his actions, we couldn’t argue with his motives.

And I agree, to see his arc come to such an abrupt end in this fashion really hurt. He was a good ally when he worked with the team, and he tried to help the team while they were on the run. We can clearly see that he didn’t want to betray Tasha and the team, but with his family’s safety on the line, he made the only choice he could. And in the end, he chose to try to help Tasha, to kill Madeline, knowing that he was signing his own death warrant. And I suppose that’s our only consolation. In his last moments, he chose to go out a hero, trying one last time to help the team. And that’s how we’ll have to remember him, I think.

I’m angry at Madeline for what she did to him, but I’m also weirdly angry that we weren’t able to really process and mourn his loss before it was overshadowed by another. I can’t handle so many traumas so close together!

The team collectively and individually faced what was probably the worst day of their lives. I mean… it was pretty tough… there is no other way of putting it without bursting into tears. Where does this leave them, both individually and as a group?

L: I’m just gonna rip the bandaid off and start with Patterson. Oh, William. I can’t even think “Patterson” without tearing up. And I will say, again, that the scenes leading up to her death were just amazing. The writing, the cinematography, the music, and of course, Ashley Johnson’s performance. It was so incredible. And I sincerely hope I never ever sit through another scene like that again, because my poor little heart just couldn’t take it. I completely broke down and sobbed. And I’ve cried every time I’ve rewatched the episode. And once we’re done this review, I might never be able to watch this episode again, unless I need to donate tears for some unknown cause.

And it’s not just that scene. Everything that leads up to that point hints at what is to come, even though we don’t want to go there. It starts with the unveiling of this week’s tattoo. The team is... not enthusiastic enough to suit Patterson. “Come on, people. I get it. You have a lot on your minds, but... these are the tattoos. We used to love these.” In all likelihood, this is the last tattoo the team will solve together, and it feels like the writers are using Patterson to draw attention to this moment, so we can say goodbye to the tattoo squad as group, too.

And the goodbyes continue as Patterson sees each team member off on their respective journeys. She hands each of them a little Tamagotchi-like digital pet to take care of. She tells Tasha to tap its nose to show it affection, and Tasha taps Patterson’s nose in response. She gives Weller his and tells him that he’s “like a mama bear, anyone who gets between you and your cubs will get torn to shreds” (and because he’s scruffy). We know how fierce Weller has gotten when something’s happened to Patterson or his other “cubs” in the past (and we see him break down when Rich tells him that Patterson didn’t make it out). Jane tells Patterson, “I was just thinking about how you push buttons to look after us. We’re kinda like your virtual pets.” Weller agrees and thanks Patterson for all the times she’s kept them alive out in the field. And then Patterson tells Rich—with all sincerity—“You are the best hacker I know. And you’re a pretty awesome person, too.” If she were to have a deathbed scene, it seems like these are all the things that Patterson would say to the team, and they would say to her.

I’m trying to find some comfort in the idea that they did get to say their goodbyes, even if they didn’t realize that’s what they were doing at the time.

But the internet loves nothing more than a good conspiracy theory, and the second this episode ended, it lit up with people insisting that Patterson must have survived. In the interest of full disclosure, I am reluctant to get on this train because I just can’t bear to get my hopes up only to have them dashed to pieces, but even I must admit that there are a few clues we could cling to.

Patterson is the team’s tech goddess, and a lot of my hopes rest on tech. The first gadget of hope is the Beaconer device they got from Ice Cream that they’ve been using to follow Madeline and Ivy’s communication. When Patterson and Rich are clearing out the bunker, she puts it in her bag, and it’s with her in the server room at the end. “We need to protect this device at all costs. Intercepting her private messages will be the only thing we have to take her down.” If Patterson is alive, then the device is still operational and in her possession, and the team still has an edge over Madeline. (More importantly: Tasha didn’t tell Keaton about the device, so Madeline doesn’t know that Patterson is spying on her.)

And then there are the little digital pets that Patterson gave every member of the team. They’re not just adorable; they are her way of contacting the team. Sure, Ivy’s goon squad probably patted the team down and took all of their weapons and personal effects when they brought them in. But then again, they aren’t real, trained FBI employees, so it’s possible that they just collected the obvious weapons and left their 1990’s keychain toys alone. Imagine one of those little gadgets chirping at the team and giving them all equal shots of shock and hope. “This is gonna tell you what your next move is,” Patterson said to Tasha. And man, I’m not gonna lie, I very much want that to be true.

And then there is Patterson herself. “This is not over,” she says to Rich as she stuffs the Beaconer into her bag, followed shortly by “I always have a plan B.” She tells Rich tunnels are full of “refuge spots” in the event of a cave-in. Some of them were filled in, but others remain. It is possible that there was one in the server room; even if it didn’t go all the way to the surface, if it had a solid door between her and the explosion, it could have provided enough shelter to shield her from the blast. “There is nobody I have more confidence in in the entire world than you, including me,” Rich tells her. If there was a way out of that room, Patterson would be the one to find it.

“Just have a little faith, people,” Patterson tells the team while she’s working on the puzzle. And “having faith” and “taking a leap of faith” have been ongoing themes this season. And if Patterson wants us to have a little faith in her....

Well. Who are we to argue?

Y: Did you really have to start with Patterson? I was hoping we would keep her until the end and then I could distract you with chocolate and Jeller gifs until you forgot about it.

You know what’s funny? That whole entire scene felt like such an out-of-body experience for me. I still remember watching it, remember what I thought while watching it, and remember what I felt what watching it. And I never knew the true meaning of denial until then. I have to admit I didn’t cry, because I didn’t believe it was happening. I just couldn’t understand what was happening on the screen. Because how can any of it make any sense? This is Patterson. Patterson. Our Patterson! Our MVP. Our LeBron. This cannot happen. This isn’t happening.

And the denial continues to be strong.

I’ve read all the analysis and theories and the intellectual breakdown of hints and clues of how Patterson could’ve survived, and I hope they’re right, that somehow she did. But all I feel is numb. I don’t know… I’m clinging to the fact that Patterson always has a plan B and that we didn’t see a body. On Blindspot, we’ve learned that if we don’t see the body post explosion then there is a chance the exploded person could have survived.

And here’s the thing. Remember the last time this happened? Yeah, it was Borden. We all assumed he died in that explosion, and then he showed up again very much alive. It would be quite the parallel if the same thing happens with Patterson, given the connection between the two characters. We already saw the same thing with Keaton—torturing Jane in his introduction to the show and then being tortured himself in his exit from the show. It would be a nice touch if Patterson pulls a Borden on us and returns to save her family.

Because let’s face it, at this point, the only way the team can get out of this is if they have someone on the outside with Patterson’s IQ helping them out. Jane and Kurt’s comments about Patterson protecting them from behind her computers and keeping them alive has to be some sort of foreshadowing… actually all those moments with the virtual pets, with Tasha and Kurt and Jane, with Rich later in the bunker… those were not goodbyes. They couldn’t be.

And this is why Patterson cannot be dead. But also because it’s Patterson and I am still rowing down The Nile and refusing to accept it.

And also, they wouldn’t do that to Bill Nye, would they?

Can we stop talking about Patterson now and talk about someone else? Can we talk about Rich for example? Rich and his beautiful journey of redemption and becoming the heart and soul of the team?

This week, Rich was once again all of this. He brought his usual brand of humor to lighten things around the bunker. He also pulled his weight in solving this week’s case by getting in touch with one of his friends and securing a covert flight back to the States for Jane and Kurt, and when things got really bad, he was, again, incredible. Both conversations between Rich and Patterson are probably my favorites in this episode. I guess the emotional impact was bigger because shit was hitting the fan when they happened, unlike with Tasha or Jane and Kurt, when it was a routine tech briefing before heading out.

The best part of Rich’s speech was the amount of self-realization in there. We saw a bit of it last season when Jane came back from her Remi phase and she had that moment with Rich in the van. And we saw more of it here. A huge part of Rich’s redemption has relied on him owning up to his past and identifying his mistakes and learning from them and realizing what parts to hold on to and what parts to change.

And that has given us one of the best characters ever, which remains true to his essence but allowed him to grow and learn and evolve and become so self-aware that he has the freedom and intelligence to really make himself who he knows he deserves to be.

And finally, we have to give Ennis credit to how he played those scenes when the thermite went off and he watched Patterson disappear in the flames and when he’s thrown into the military vehicle with Jane and Kurt. He absolutely destroyed me. I don’t think we’ve ever seen Rich so broken, so absolutely destroyed that he cannot even speak. Dammit, he was just so good, and his pain and heartache just exploded through the screen.

L: My god, yes. Ennis destroyed me in those scenes. I was in shock and denial about what was happening on my screen, but his reaction was so visceral that it just forced you to accept what you didn’t want to.

And I agree; those two definitely-not-goodbye scenes between him and Patterson, when they admitted how much respect they have for each other, while also saying without words how much their friendship means to each of them? Man. Those choked me up almost as much as that scene-I-want-to-forget.

So let’s move on to Tasha, who is having the second-worst day on the team. We talked a lot about Keaton and his arc, but we can’t ignore Tasha’s role in that journey. Just as we saw the team inspire Rich and even Weitz, Keaton went from viewing them as competition to being a fan of theirs, too. So much so that he recruited Tasha to work with him, his own way to try to produce the kind of results that the team made seem so effortless.

Tasha worked so closely with Keaton, and she trusted him implicitly. When she wanted to abort the undercover mission with Madeline, he urged her to stay the course. He had faith in her, and she worked hard to live up to that. While she was with the CIA, he was her whole team. And so finding out that he’d betrayed her and then losing him like that? It’s not quite as painful as losing Reade, but it’s damned close.

And then she has to listen to Madeline gloat about it. “Everywhere you went, you left bodies behind... Your NYPD partner, and then your FBI partner, and now your CIA partner.” Of all of Madeline’s lines, this is the lowest blow, and the most painful, because it’s not false. We learned in 1.19 that Tasha’s partner at the NYPD was shot and killed while they were responding to a domestic disturbance. She’s lost her FBI partner (and Madeline is again right, Reade was much more than that), and now Keaton. We know Tasha already blames herself for Reade’s death and for her NYPD partner’s death. There is little doubt that she will hold herself responsible for Keaton’s death as well. If she hadn’t accepted his offer to move to the CIA, if she hadn’t come to Malta to see him today... Logically, we know that the responsibility for Reade’s and Keaton’s deaths lies solely with Madeline, but we know it’s not so clear in Tasha’s heart. “I don’t know what’s worse, the grief or the survivor’s guilt,” as she says to Keaton. Tasha was as much a victim of Madeline’s plans as they were, but it’s not something she would be able to admit, knowing that she is walking around when they no longer are.

And it’s the contrast between these two extremes, between Tasha and Madeline, that plays out over Keaton’s dead body. Tasha has no defense against Madeline blaming her for these deaths, because she accepts all blame, even for things that were outside of her control. But when she confronts Madeline about zipping her own child, Madeline responds, “You left me no choice.” Madeline blames her own actions on others, while Tasha blames herself for the actions of others. One shows great heart and character... and the other is a psychopath.

We haven’t seen Tasha take any real action with regard to her pregnancy, either embracing it or deciding not to go through with it. In some ways, her inaction is a decision of its own; after a certain point, there is only one outcome left. To be fair, she’s also on the run for her life, so it’s certainly not as easy as scheduling a prenatal appointment at the local health clinic. But as tough as nails as Tasha is, we know how fiercely protective she is of her family, and there’s no question that she would be even more so for a child of her own. And we see that in her abject horror when she discovers that Madeline zipped her own son. Look Tasha, motherhood is hard, yes, but this is a pretty low bar to beat. Without even trying, you’ll be better at parenting than Madeline!

Y: Tasha’s line about the virtual pet being for baby practice and then saying that she knows they have to be fed is one of the best lines of dialogue on this show ever. And Audrey’s delivery was just so perfect.

It worth mentioning that the way the team breaks up in this episode puts Tasha on her own. I know as an odd numbered group, this could always be the case, but it was relevant this week because her outing puts her in two head-to-head confrontations with two people who have had such an important role in her life. And both Tasha and Audrey are so good in both those confrontations.

With Keaton, even though he eventually became an ally to the team, he wasn’t so at first. And one of the first things he did was recruit Tasha to the CIA and cause that rift between Tasha and the FBI team. Her relationship with Reade was strained for a long time after that, and her relationship with Patterson was never the same again. Don’t get me wrong, Tasha is as much a member of this family as anyone else, but for a while Keaton’s presence in her life strained her other relationships.

And then her undercover op with Madeline really pulled her away from the team for a while and even upon returning she had a hard time finding her place again. So it seems right that she went on this mission alone and faced these two people on her own. Her realization that Keaton was betraying them was so sad to watch. For a minute, she allowed herself to hope that maybe this group of people helping them can really make a difference. And what made it harder was that she was opening up to him on personal stuff. We know how hard this is for Tasha. She never talks about her feelings, and to let her guard down like this only to get burned is heartbreaking.

L is spot on in her analysis that Tasha blames herself for everything. And the guilt she’s carrying around has to be crushing her. And this made the confrontation between Tasha and Madeline that much better. Of all the team, Tasha is the most ruined by Madeline—the months she spent with her were brutal, emotionally and psychologically and socially and professionally. Tasha was forced to do things and witness things that were unbearable and then after all that, after believing she finally got her, Madeline turned all the tables on them and sent the team running for their lives and costing Reade his.

The conversation about the track of destruction was so poignant. It drew a parallel between both women, but also placed them on the extreme ends of the spectrum. And that parallel was further highlighted by how both women perceive their path of destruction. Tasha carries all the responsibility and the guilt even though none of it is hers. And Madeline is so devoid of any feeling of guilt or responsibility and somehow manages to project responsibility onto others.

In many ways, everything that happened this week with the team played the role of emphasizing that they’re the good guys. Every choice they made served as a reminder that they’re the good guys.

But in the end—at least the end of this episode—they lose. A bleak representation of the real world, I’m afraid, but since this is tv and shows provide a good platform to provide hope in a miserable world, let’s just cross our fingers that the last chapter of this story is one that gives us an alternate view.

Oh, and don’t get me started on the fact that we didn’t see Tasha react to the news that Patterson’s dead or that she has lost her two best friends in a span of three months.

Jeez, this turned pretty dark from me. I’m sorry.

Here, think of Tasha boop-ing Patterson’s nose instead.

Boop.

Just like their team, Jane and Kurt were faced with a couple of impossible decisions this week, but those two will go on fighting until the bitter end, right? Right?

Y: In a fangirl’s lifetime, they would be lucky to get one or two ships—maybe three if their stars align properly—that will bring them endless joy and manage to fulfill all their shipping heart’s desires. Jeller is one of those ships for me. It hasn’t been without its hiccups, but dammit going into the finale chapter, it’s everything I could have ever wished for or imagined.

As intense as this episode was, somehow Jeller managed to give us a handful of their trademark sweet little moments that they always know how to steal in the madness. They also gave us one of their typical epic moments—the kind that goes down as a ship-defining moment. And at the end of the day they threw in the ultimate power couple “you just messed with the wrong people” look.

It was once again one of those episodes where we cannot separate Jeller in the review because they were glued together the whole time. I mean other than their entrance to the interrogation room, there was only one scene where they weren’t together, when Kurt was talking to Tasha.

Jeller once again give us a standard to aspire to in their relationship in the way they support each other and the way they find a balance and open dialogue all the times. They both have different opinions as to how to move forward and when Kurt decides that Jane’s course of action—heading to the east coast to stop the ZIP—is the right one, Jane starts to question the decision herself. But then all it takes is for Kurt to tell her to go with her gut—because he trusts her gut more than his own. That element of trust and honestly and codependency is what makes those two such an amazing couple.

I absolutely loved the moments they shared with Rich and Patterson. The comedy with Rich is always a treasure and we’ve gotten to a point in their relationship with Rich that his idiosyncrasies are no longer a thing of annoyance. Rich asks a question that should stop any sane person in their tracks. “Are you allergic to any endangered animals?” And to that, Kurt just shrugs and carries on. It’s a nice little nod to the fact that they’ve accepted Rich for who he is and just embrace him and love him for it.

And then the scene with Patterson. Jeller pretty much calls her their guardian angel. She urges them not to die. And before all that she gives us the best possible description of Kurt that could ever exist. Kurt’s the mama bear who’ll protect his cubs no matter what.

And Jane is the flamingo. The elegant and striking creature that is surprisingly fierce and resilient.

The moment Jeller shares in the military vehicle where Jane seeks comfort and reassurance and Kurt offers it via reminding her of who their team is—assuming in that moment that Tasha, Rich and Patterson are still out there. The trust and faith they have in their family is a beautiful thing.

Obviously, my favorite moments in the episode with these two occur when they’re stuck in the elevator. First, Jane stating that they won’t kill cops is a testament to who these guys are. It’s such a simple line, but it is right at the core of who they are. And it once again emphasizes a major running theme. There’s a good side and a bad side. The choices you make define where you stand. It was evident with Keaton and still ongoing with Weitz. So pick carefully because the lane you end up in defines your legacy.

And speaking of legacy, it seems Jeller are going for being the ultimate power couple and battle couple. And I mean, I don’t see that many couples even coming close. That kiss in the elevator with their hands on their weapons, poised for battle, ready to go down fighting for what’s right, declaring their undying love for each other and heading into battle with all the trust in each other and devotion to each other.

Excuse me but they’re the worst.

And if they don’t get their happily ever after... I guess I’ll be resigned to the fact that there isn’t justice in the world.

L: Speak for yourself. I will be angry on a level that will make Game of Thrones fans seem “mildly perturbed.”

I have expectations for this couple. They have fought so hard and so long, and throughout it all, they have never given up on each other. No petty squabbling (and in that they are doing better than pretty much every single couple stuck in quarantine together), no poor communication leading to big misunderstandings. Just... quiet faith in each other and way of working in sync that feels almost telepathic in nature. They have sacrificed almost everything they hold dear to do the right thing... And if they don’t deserve a happily ever after, then no one does.

But yes, that scene in the van. The last time they were handcuffed in a police van was in Iceland. And Tasha and Rich and Patterson got them out. Ivy captured Kurt, but the team found him, and Tasha brought him home (after she and Patterson and Rich saved Jane’s life). So it’s easy to understand why Kurt seems so optimistic this time. “With Patterson, Rich, and Tasha still out there? Yeah, I like our chances.” And knowing what we know at that moment, about Keaton and Tasha and Rich and Patterson, that lighthearted moment felt like being smacked in the face with a lead pipe. It is yet another example of how the cross-cutting from scene to scene in this episode was so incredibly effective.

So let’s just focus on the message that Kurt is giving us there. That this team is made up of individuals, who can be individually arrested and restrained, but they know that they are so much more than that. This team is a force. It’s strong enough to reform a dark web hacker. It makes a CIA company man go rogue and help a band of outlaws. It makes a self-serving smarmy lawyer start a resistance. It pairs up a couple of jaded federal agents with a convicted criminal/artist/hacker. This team is good, and they push the people around them to be better than they were before.

For that, if nothing else, we have to have faith.

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Well that was one of the most traumatizing and emotional episodes in the history of Blindspot. I guess that’s what they meant when they said we’re in the endgame now. Have you stashed enough chocolate? Is such a thing possible?

—Laura & Yas

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4th Gen Intel Xeon: Turbocharge Broadband Performance

Intel Xeon Performance and power savings for broadband are increased by 4th Gen Intel Xeon processors

According to the Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, the networking sector is often one of its busiest during the first quarter of the year.  There, Intel had a significant presence and demonstrated how our most recent 4th Gen Xeon Scalable processors carry on a long legacy of innovation and have become the industry’s first option to power network components like the 5G core and virtualized RAN.

Not to be outdone, the last three months of the year focus more on the wireline and broadband sectors of the network business.  The SCTE Cable Tec Expo, taking place in Denver, Colorado from October 16 to 19, offers a chance to see the outstanding development taking place at the network’s edge.  At the edge, users on wired and wireless networks, including those of us who often work from home, rely on the service to provide the bandwidth, low latency, and security we need for both work and play.

In this post, he will go into detail about how Intel and our ecosystem are setting the standard in the cable and convergent access sectors, allowing service providers to benefit from the same features seen in our most recent CPUs that we unveiled at MWC. 

These advantages were first felt in the data center, then moved to the core, and are now reaching the periphery. Here, service providers are utilizing our most recent 4th Gen Xeon Scalable processors‘ numerous new features and cloud native architecture to deliver the necessary performance while also processing data in a more power-efficient manner with fewer servers, ultimately resulting in a lower total cost of ownership (TCO).

Cable

Let’s start by examining the cable business, where we are now at a turning point. The majority of the multi-service operators (MSOs) in this sector are starting to implement and reap the rewards of virtualizing the Cable Modem Termination System (vCMTS).  Cable MSOs have moved to enhance their network infrastructure to satisfy customer demand as the need for video, broadband access, work-from-home consumer behavior, and data services continues to rise. 

MSOs have opted for a general-purpose server-based virtualized CMTS that offers notable performance throughput, scalability, and service agility while also using less power and taking up less space (rack space).

By utilizing the open-source software DPDK and integrated accelerators to meet DOCSIS privacy and security standards, such as Intel QAT, Intel AVX-512, and AES encryption engines, our 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable Processors offer a new microarchitecture designed to address the most dynamic and demanding wireline and wireless workloads.  Without our ecosystem, we are unable to provide the MSOs these advantages.  Our partners demonstrated our ongoing cooperation earlier this year, including:

In a whitepaper, Harmonic, our Emmy-winning partner, describes how their CableOS vCMTS software grows quickly to provide high-speed data services everywhere.  This vCMTS platform’s use of 4th Gen Xeons also results in reduced infrastructure costs as well as decreased power, cooling, and cabling needs.

In their whitepaper, Casa Systems showcases their Axyom vCCAP, which boosts performance by 65% and supports DOCSIS 4.0 with the newest 4th Gen Intel Xeon CPU.  This enhancement was made possible by new DPDK API capabilities, integrated QAT for DOCSIS encryption, and CRC offload and acceleration.

 At CableLabs in August, CommScope showcased their vCore vCMTS compatibility with DOCSIS 4.0 cable modems before launching their vCore solution on 4th Gen Xeon CPUs.

Fiber Internet

Let’s move on to the next section, where we’ll look at how service providers are using cloud native architecture to enhance performance, efficiency, agility, and scalability.  The BNG at the central office edge location serves as the major network component in this scenario.  Access to the internet is made possible by the BNG, which collects data flow from various residences and places of business. 

The advantages of using a cloud-native based architecture and 4th Gen Xeon Scalable processors to deliver the speed and power savings provided during packet processing, authorisation, and authentication are being investigated by Communication Service Providers (CoSPs), much like the cable MSOs.

In this area, too, our partners have been working assiduously, and they keep showcasing how the characteristics of our CPUs combined with their software are setting the standard for the sector.  You may learn more about the following highlights by reading the whitepapers:

Axyom vBNG, a CUPS-based cloud native vBNG with performance throughput of 540 Gbps and scalability to 1 Tbps utilizing a single socket 4th Gen Xeon server, was featured by Casa Systems.

Using just 2U of rack space and a 4th Gen Xeon, netElastic increased vBNG performance throughput by 46% (generation over generation) and is scalable to 1 Tbps.

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Linuxizing the Office: An Interview with The Mad Botter

If you follow us on Twitter, you’ve probably seen software development company The Mad Botter dangling a System76 machine before your very eyes. Thanks to the company’s recent conversion to Linux, that’s not the only System76 machine you’ll find there! This week, we sat down with Michael Dominick, The Mad Botter’s Founder and CEO, to discuss his team’s switch to System76.

What kind of work goes on at The Mad Botter?

Michael: We’re a software development company. We mostly code on Python, along with some Ruby and Rust, coding IDEs, and using a whole lot of LibreOffice. One of our products is a radar display that runs on Linux and Windows. We actually use a Thelio as a flight simulator to test our software.

Our new product is an automation tool called Rabbot. It involves us having to very quickly spin up a bunch of Ubuntu servers for customers who need them. Having the .deb instances on our computers has made that process a hundred times easier, because we can deploy test units to our machines with the same docker container that works exactly the same as it does on our cloud instances.

Why is it called Rabbot? And what’s with The Mad Botter?

I went a little crazy with the Lewis Carroll references. I have a degree in literature, so I’m very familiar with Carroll’s work. When I moved from New Jersey down to Florida, the name of the company conflicted with a very large football team in Florida, and they did not like that. I had to rejigger everything. We already had a product called Alice at the time, so we decided to build around that.

How long have you been in business?

The Mad Botter has been around for 3 years, and the company before it in New Jersey was around for an additional 3 years. I’ve been running development businesses for around 11 years.

How did you hear about System76?

When I was hosting Coder Radio with Chris Fisher, he would always tease me for being an Apple guy. You know—hipster coffee, the whole thing. He told me, “If you really want a controlled experience to try Linux, take a look at these guys in Denver.” So I did. It wasn’t a huge investment to try on a laptop, and I ended up loving it, so I got the Ratel tower. That was the beginning of a long road to Linux purity.

What System76 machines do you have around the office?

I was the first one to adopt a System76 computer at the company. Now, to make life easy, we only buy System76 computers. Currently we have an older Galago Pro, a Thelio, and 3 Lemur Pros. There’s a couple of Darter Pros running around, too. All of our machines are running Pop!_OS 20.04.

Moving forward, we’re standardizing down to the Lemur Pro and the Oryx Pro. People who have to run VMs are getting the Oryx Pro because you can spec it up a little more. Everybody else is using the Lemur Pro, which is a great all-around computer. The Thelio is a special case because we have to run our flight simulation software on it.

What prompted you to bring your company fully onto Linux?

Honestly, it was macOS Catalina. We were having too many problems with people updating OS X and breaking Homebrew packages, to the point where we had to reinstall our custom toolchain every time we updated. The last guy on Mac updated to Catalina recently, and he had to struggle with Excel libraries because Apple moves things between OS versions. It just wasn’t worth it. I’ve been talking about it for about a year with my CTO.

All of our back-end service runs Ubuntu. Most of the client-side work we’re doing is for IOT devices, and that’s all Linux. We ended up basically having an expensive machine so that we could emulate Linux on anything. It didn’t make a lot of sense to keep using Mac, so we switched.

How was the transition from macOS to Linux?

Actually super easy! Once we wrote a few setup scripts and packages we needed for different jobs in our pipeline, we were up and running. We already had a bunch of scripting and automations for the servers we had, and they’re all on Ubuntu, so it’s not a big jump in terms of the command line.

How did you find the overall experience on Pop!_OS 20.04?

I found it pretty intuitive. Learning the keyboard shortcuts took about a week. I really don’t have any issues. I like the tiling, I use that every day. It definitely makes it easier to multitask on a laptop screen.

Have you tried other distros?

We had a brief stint with Fedora, but because all of our back end was on Debian or Ubuntu, it made sense to stick with that Debian world. We also tried Linux Mint briefly. But honestly the ease of being able to buy a system pre-installed with Pop!_OS that you guys support—where I can just go to your GitHub and see if there’s an issue—is an attractive option.

Have you had any experiences with our support team?

I have a bad habit of spilling tea and other beverages in my laptops... A few times you guys were able to walk me through my issue. I think the most recent one was with Thelio. There was an issue with the graphics card where only one of the DisplayPorts actually worked, so they walked me through trying different things and we were eventually able to figure out why that was happening.

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Committed to STEM education and open source software, The Mad Botter INC team is holding a Fourth of July contest for high school and college students! Create and share an open-source project that addresses ballot access or assists with voting, and you can win a System76 Thelio. Hey wait, that’s us! Check out the contest page for details on how to enter.

Michael Dominick is also host of The Mike Dominick Show, where he looks at the latest news from the worlds of technology and open source. Listen to his interview with System76 Principal Engineer Jeremy Soller—stay tuned for the teaser!

If you want to talk to us about how System76 has helped your business, contact myriah@system76.com.

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With Latest MacOS X Mojave, came in numerous features. Same thing applies at TBL TECH NERDS. Each year, that passed since 2013, brought with it new chapters, and the story is continuing proudly. Out of all those 8 great folks, that gathered once to enlighten the hope, that humanity still exists, are united still, and one out of them is up with TBL TECH NERDS, a company, that never thinks of making profit, but for the profit of all human beings. Thomas now is father of two cute kids, and has quite a few world class programmers, designers, analysts, writers and Software engineers with him, and they all together are working together, and serving a huge list of clients from worldwide. Its just 10 years since he graduated, however, he has more than 100 apps under his belt already, and all of them are running successfully either on iTunes, Apple app store, Google play, Amazon app store, or plenty more app stores from various top companies. Thomas was a chief engineer in American Navy. However, he had different ambition, and in between his studies, he decided to research on humanity. The course fuelled further, his real ambition, and that has always been to serve humanity. TBL is not a new terminology, and people should know that, it’s the best  non profit business format for humanity. Thomas was deeply influenced, and finally in 2013, he laid the founding stones of TBL TECH NERDS. The company is located in Denver surrounded by great tech locations like Boulder, Arvada, Lakewood etc.

Either you think of desirability, value, job market, quality of life or net migration. Denver is an awesome city. The city first came into existence in mid 1800s, during Gold Rush. The architects did a great job and Denver is now the 19th most populous city of US and third best place to live. The people living out here have an average income of over $55000s, and you will find them being quite innovative. The city is surrounded by top neighbors like Boulder, Lakewood, Glendle, Country hill, Aravada and Golden, and hence the population doing business in Denver is much bigger than population of Denver. TBL TECH NERDS is located at 16thstreet Mall, and its quite popular destination out here, and in fact the heart of Denver, the Mile High City. The ratings on Google proves that programmers working for TBL TECH NERDS are worldclass. They don’t ever say they are the best, but it does appear, being working on toughest technologies like Unity 3D and Game Development, they are quite talented.

They have built plenty of websites, and that too in all technologies, either its Microsoft Asp.NET or Open source PHP, and top third party apis, webservices, wpf, payment gateways, security apis, proxies, firewalls, CMS, CDN, scalable servers, clouds, map apis, video apis like youtube, viewport and much more. The much more does confirms that much more is there in the list of technologies covered by TBL TECH NERDS. However. We just covered the web technologies and didn’t touched even the database or analytics! You will be glad to note that Denver web is redesigned by TBL TECH NERDS team. They wants to add a new chapter in designing for the design firms in Denver Colorado. Design firms Denver Co are well known throughout the US, and why not, they live in such a colorful city. TBL TECH NERDS wants to add more glory to this tag from the whole country to Denver. Some of the top designers work at TBL TECH NERDS, and they use top database technologies like MongodB, CosmosDB, though according to the requirements. They still use MSSQL  and MYSQL for majority of website development projects for small and mid cap requirements. Its only if the client, and if only if they have the big ambition that’s always is the case, but not all requires big db, they go for Mongodb and CosmosDB. However, seeing the World requirement changing fast, their analysts now always recommend to all clients, make use of NoSql dbs more now. That makes their app a leading and special Denver app brand.

Denver application development is known to be similar for all companies working here, but TBL TECH NERDS, even as first string, and even now is redefining development, and coming up with ideas, that can be the trend soon! In the process, it has achieved many tags, and one of the best graphic design companies Denver, is also there. Its definitely among top design agencies Denver now. Its also now a well known Denver web application development company. Its one of the best Denver app development company as well, and for both IOS and Android. As a layman, and even as an expert, you will want to find best development companies Denver in few minutes, and you can relly on us. TBL TECH NERDS is definitely among the best, and thanks to quite energetic and never say no mentality, and a true American, who sees the whole world with same eye, Thomas Woodfin. A true family person, a father of two cute kids, an angel investor, a true programmer with masters in numerous technologies, an unstoppable learner, and the owner of TBL TECH NERDS, is one of prime reason for such a huge amount of success, achieved by TBL in such a small span of time.  At TBL TECH NERDS have a vision to entertain all our clients equally. They never hesitate in working on new technologies. As an example, being a true Denver Design Company, they cover everything related to web designing, and our designs are always user friendly and best in appearance. We build software as well, and are one of the leading software companies in Denver. Software companies in Denver design from the heart, and TBL TECH NERDS is creating new chapter in that. Either its Unity 3D complex game designing or Android/iOS game development, Designers at TBL TECH NERDS have designed all sorts of games, and that proves they are quite talented. Its one of the best graphic design agency Denver located, and quite versatile in skills.

If you want to find leading Denver graphic designers then TBL TECH NERDS can be a great option for you. 

TBL TECH NERDS denver designers can work to any extent.  No matter how big a project is, you will always find them in top notch, and giving their hundred percent. They have numerous skills in various and in same field. As an example, they realize and hence consider the travel app Denver and travel app Myanmar as two similar projects but with different requirements. You will find analysts designing the apps differently for tableta denver 7 inch and for other skins. They know all about mobile devices like hard reset denver tablet or anything else. They know the most complex part of mobile app programming, like when to use denver hard reset in a mobile based app programming,They  cover all devices as well in their programming, may it be Denver taq 10043 firmware or any, and all technologies like denver tablet factory reset etc., and all through programming. Top features of Android and IOS like multithreading, factory reset denver tablet, and all are being covered by TBL TECH NERDS.

Contact TBL TECH NERDS now, and you will never forget Denver ap designing. Either its denver public transportation app or a rare combodian transportation app, you will find them ready to work on all. People look for most popular Denver app developers and you will find such out here at TBL TECH NERDS.

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Either you think of desirability, value, job market, quality of life or net migration. Denver is an awesome city. The city first came into existence in mid 1800s, during Gold Rush. The architects did a great job and Denver is now the 19th most populous city of US and third best place to live. The people living out here have an average income of over $55000s, and you will find them being quite innovative. The city is surrounded by top neighbors like Boulder, Lakewood, Glendle, Country hill, Aravada and Golden, and hence the population doing business in Denver is much bigger than population of Denver. TBL TECH NERDS is located at 16th street Mall, and its quite popular destination out here, and in fact the heart of Denver, the Mile High City. The ratings on Google proves that programmers working for TBL TECH NERDS are worldclass. They don’t ever say they are the best, but it does appear, being working on toughest technologies like Unity 3D and Game Development, they are quite talented. They have built plenty of websites, and that too in all technologies, either its Microsoft Asp.NET or Open source PHP, and top third party apis, webservices, wpf, payment gateways, security apis, proxies, firewalls, CMS, CDN, scalable servers, clouds, map apis, video apis like youtube, viewport and much more. The much more does confirms that much more is there in the list of technologies covered by TBL TECH NERDS. However. We just covered the web technologies and didn’t touched even the database or analytics! You will be glad to note that Denver web is redesigned by TBL TECH NERDS team. They wants to add a new chapter in designing for the design firms in Denver Colorado. Design firms Denver Co are well known throughout the US, and why not, they live in such a colorful city. TBL TECH NERDS wants to add more glory to this tag from the whole country to Denver. Some of the top designers work at TBL TECH NERDS, and they use top database technologies like MongodB, CosmosDB, though according to the requirements. They still use MSSQL  and MYSQL for majority of website development projects for small and mid cap requirements. Its only if the client, and if only if they have the big ambition that’s always is the case, but not all requires big db, they go for Mongodb and CosmosDB. However, seeing the World requirement changing fast, their analysts now always recommend to all clients, make use of NoSql dbs more now. That makes their app a leading and special Denver app brand. Denver application development is known to be similar for all companies working here, but TBL TECH NERDS, even as first string, and even now is redefining development, and coming up with ideas, that can be the trend soon! In the process, it has achieved many tags, and one of the best graphic design companies Denver, is also there. Its definitely among top design agencies Denver now. Its also now a well known denver web application development company. Its one of the best Denver app development company as well, and for both IOS and Android. As a layman, and even as an expert, you will want to find best development companies Denver in few minutes, and you can relly on us. TBL TECH NERDS is definitely among the best, and thanks to quite energetic and never say no mentality, and a true American, who sees the whole world with same eye, Thomas Woodfin. A true family person, a father of two cute kids, an angel investor, a true programmer with masters in numerous technologies, an unstoppable learner, and the owner of TBL TECH NERDS, is one of prime reason for such a huge amount of success, achieved by TBL in such a small span of time.  At TBL TECH NERS have a vision to entertain all our clients equally. They never hesitate in working on new technologies. As an example, being a true Denver Design Company,they cover everything related to web designing, and our designs are always user friendly and best in appearance. We build software as well, and are one of the leading software companies in Denver. Software companies in Denver design from the heart, and TBL TECH NERDS is creating new chapter in that. Either its Unity 3D complex game designing or Android/iOS game development, Designers at TBL TECH NERDS have designed all sorts of games, and that proves they are quite talented. Its one of the best graphic design agency Denver located, and quite versatile in skills.

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