Interesting developments in TypeScript community. Another open source project announces return to plain JavaScript. Another flame war begins. People are angry and upset that JavaScript refuses to die.
Yahoo Finance reports - The AI Bubble Might be Popping. That escalated fast!
Redis, a popular data store and message bus solution, can be used in countless ways. Simple ‘hello world’ examples fall short of showing all available possibilities. Instead, in this article we focus on several real-life scenarios, where Redis helped us build a resilient modular software architecture.
Japan makes online insults punishable. The suicide of a popular TV star who became a victim of online harassment was a pivotal point. Are fears of suppression of free speech justified?
When working with AWS, I have to stay alert all the time, as Amazon keeps coming up with new ingenious ways of extracting money. And boy, they did it again today! Welcome to AWS Lambda Function URLs!
Google, Facebook, other advertisers profile us and invade our privacy in all ways imaginable. Lawmakers are hopelessly behind, cookie walls and opt-out schemes don’t do much, except ruining the web. Is there a better way? How about a new, GDPR-enforced Web Privacy API? Here’s a humble RFC proposal …
An excellent opinion & thorough technical analysis of Web3 and all the hype around it, by Moxie Marlinspike, the father of Signal messenger.
Sometimes it’s useful to get visual feedback from a script. For example when script or cron job completes. Or when long-running build fails. Or when there is urgent problem during script execution. Desktop applications can do this with popup notifications. But it can be done from script too! You can use script commands to send yourself desktop notifications and reminders.
How to look busy when you need to sit and think for an hour, but it doesn’t qualify as being useful in your particular work environment? Here’s an idea!
My ongoing quest for great terminal utilities has uncovered another gem. Turbo Editor, fast multi-document text editor with syntax highlighting and natural key bindings. Is it just a nostalgic blast from the past, or could it become my favourite editor for the terminal?