ericjmorey @ ericjmorey @programming.dev

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I agree with you now about preference for web apps, but that was not the case when Google started pushing Flutter.

They're hiring replacements in Germany, not India.

Engineers over index in their own ways, but I think you're spot on with decoding the PR speak.

The Python team was very involved with the Python Software Foundation and was influencial with directing priorities for the Python programming language reference implementation (which is by far the most widely used implementation of Python). Google just gave up their say in how the language will evolve. Seems like an incredibly bad strategy. But then again, Google has been, from a financial perspective, nothing more than a digital classified ads platform for decades. If a smart MBA were running Google they'd start spinning off divisions into new IPOs and cashing in with dividends like other large conglomerates have done in the past when they have stopped inovating or actually commit to their projects long term.

Yes

I guess it depends on what you're planning doing with NixOS or Aux. I wouldn't use it for anything new and critical. I'd figure out a mitigation strategy if I were relying on it for something critical.

But for experimental purposes, neither option seems like a bad call.

Interesting. This wouldn't be the first time that they pushed forward with tools that were later abandoned due to lack of uptake outside of the Ubuntu ecosystem if it comes to that.

I'm not sure how cononical is connected to this.

You seem to think Google cares at all.

Odd conclusion to draw. I'm simply not inclined to recommend tools that are not going to be supported by the organization that created them. Development ecosystems are important when planning a project.

Python is in essence the interface for AI tools that are optimized with languages that are easier to get high performance results with.

You shouldn’t have ever been recommending dart or flutter.

Why not?

Disinvestment into Python, Flutter, and Dart is a clear signal that those tools are unimportant to Google. I won't be recommending that anyone use Dart or Flutter on new projects.

I don't know which idea was good, but that's why I shotgunned 3 of them at you.

Have fun!

Awesome! I installed that Tranquility plugin too for those times when reader view in Firefox doesn't work, which I've been annoyed with but never looked for a solution. Now I have that solution!

I've been using https://darkreader.org/ with settings to make the text an orangey-yellow with a black background. I don't know what most websites are intended to look like by the authors. I really like the extension. I'm not sure if there's a way to make it do the reverse for you, but might be worth looking into.

A few ideas:

Try to create a service that lets you send a message over ActivityPub to a lemmy community.

Try to use Elixir to read and then flip the 3rd bit of an arbitrary byte stored in your system's RAM.

Try to make a simple game in c++ compiled to Webassembly to be played in a browser.

That looks useful. Thanks for the pointer!

Unfortunately, in this case I'm not interested in a summary. I already watched the video and would need to refer back to it for details, not general concepts.

I'll definitely use that site in the future though.

Edit: looks like it's not so good for long videos.

It's a shame that he didn't do a writeup on this. It's nice to have a video to demo the workflow, but it's really annoying to go back to the video to get details to try it yourself.

FYI, software development is considered a trade job by the US Department of Labor.

I'm going to throw this out there not being sure how true it is, but I find it interesting to think about.

XMPP is much more widely used than Matrix if you count WhatsApp (Meta/Facebook). ActivityPub is much more widely used than AT Protocol and nostr combined if you count Threads (Meta/Facebook). So reasons why people aren't talking about XMPP include not wanting to recognize that Meta is hugely influential in this space and that most people don't talk about the underlying protocols of the services and tools they're use at all leaving a self selected group of people looking for alternatives with traction that don't depend on Meta. Outside of WhatsApp, there's not a lot of traction with any particular XMPP implementation. And none of the XMPP implementations have a Discord-ish organization of chat rooms that's popular and familiar right now. Matrix has both right now (although I don't think it will ever be more than a small niche in the mobile messaging space).

I'm fine with using Matrix for what it is. There are programming language communities that have been very helpful for me and a number of Lemmy related communities that have been nice to be a part of.

My takeaway from this is to use CSP to minimize your reliance on others doing things intelligently. And that Datadog is not doing things intelligently at the inconvenience of their consumers.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/CSP