Mar 4th, 2022 Tyler Hall wrote about “Half-Assed Mac Apps” the other day. His argument goes like this: Catalyst made it easy to deploy iPad apps to the Mac. But iPad apps don’t make the best experience on Mac. Users … Read more
The Ruby core team has a tradition of releasing a new version of Ruby on Christmas day, and last month we got Ruby 3.1.0. This release brings a new JIT compiler, a new debugger, improvements to IRB, better error messages, … Read more
“How to change your mind” by Michael Pollen. I read a lot of books, and this is one that caused a change in my life. The succinct summary is that psychedelics are misunderstood and there is more and more research … Read more
We’re continuing our monthly release cadence. The 21.12 Christmas release includes 2460 new commits from 125 contributors, including 42 new contributors: Alex Cao, Amr Alaa, Andrey Torsunov, Constantine Peresypkin, Dmitriy Dorofeev, Egor O’Sten, Elykov Alexandr, Evgeny, Frank Chen, LB, Natasha … Read more
April 21st, 2018 The word ‘passion’ and the language that surrounds it today form some very destructive ideas. New-age books and speakers love to use this word and surrounding phrase. For good reason. It functions like a mythical promised land. … Read more
As the React 18 version alpha is ready-to-go, and a stable beta version will probably be available in a few months, it is about time to talk about the new features that are being added. If you know nothing about … Read more
I just created my first gist and set the Tab size to 4 but once I saved it, it got rendered with 8 spaces for some reason. Horrified about the look, I hit “edit”, saw that it was set to … Read more
Written 2021-07-25, updated 2021-07-26 Julia is my favorite programming language. More than that actually, perhaps I’m a bit of a fanboy. Sometimes, though, the ceaseless celebration of Julia by fans like me can be a bit too much. It papers … Read more
Illustration: Vicky Leta/Gizmodo On some level, all of us are waiting for the big one—the hack that downs the internet, paralyzes infrastructure, maybe launches a couple nukes. If that day never arrives, it will be largely thanks to the legions … Read more
gir.st – What’s Inside the EU Green Pass QR Code?Home | Blog | Green Pass Analysis Here in Austria, you need to be either vaccinated against, tested negative for, or have recovered from COVID-19 to go to the pub (or … Read more