A great in-depth guide on how to center UI elements, often considered the hardest problem in computer science (or at least web development).
Month: July 2024
The people in the Silicon Valley Trump cult, here represented by Balaji Srinivasan and all the people around a16z, are depraved and dangerous.
https://newrepublic.com/article/180487/balaji-srinivasan-network-state-plutocrat
A piece about real-world Rust development that struck a cord with many people. Most of the issues listed here are valid and longstanding to the point that you have to wonder if they’ll ever be fixed.
I have a similar feeling around Rust web development where for all the good building blocks it doesn’t really seem to get off the ground. At the same time Go has been going really hard for ages. Maybe spending all your time to get the types to line up doesn’t leave room for building?
As always, the people most intent on having children should be the ones having the least:
For someone dedicated to helping people have as many babies as possible, Malcolm doesn’t seem to like children very much.
These people are obviously either fascist or fascist-adjacent.
I don’t think it’s appreciated how bad it is for one of the richest men in the world and the leadership of a company to walk around propositioning random employees. Elon Musk is a bad person and you should feel bad if you like him.
https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/12/24176705/spacex-elon-musk-gwynne-shotwell-sexual-relationships
That popular open source package managers will at some point all get owned is so inevitable that it’s hardly worth mentioning.
Cocoapods in this case is a bit of an outlier because the entire setup here has been so broken to begin with. iOS development never really allowed for dependency management so Cocoapods did it in an very hacky way and it was written in Ruby, a relatively niche end-of-life language that would have no chance to be blessed by Apple and shouldn’t be used for anything serious to begin with. (Don’t even get me started on Carthage.)
Swift Package Manager has been released years ago but lots of projects of course never manage to switch. I believe the best thing a project can do in such a situation is to terminate itself for the greater good.
https://www.theregister.com/2024/07/02/cocoapods_vulns_supply_chain_potential/
I remember when I got banned from the forum of one of Germany’s larger liberal podcasts for saying that Bitcoin is mostly something by and for criminals. I think that statement was pretty much entirely correct.
The story of the Texas Bitcoin mine is sad but we’re living through something similar now where the construction site has installed yet another permanent noise device (a pump) next to our home. The noise level is not too high, but even if it were, it’s not like anything would be done in Berlin about it.
The end of free money has had a huge negative impact on open source. I agree with the author here, it would have been better to license everything under copy-left and see what happens.