Web Review, Week 2022-32
Let’s go for my web review for the week 2022-32.
reb00ted | Is this the end of social networking?
Tags: tech, social-media, attention-economy
Interesting point of view… indeed, let’s see what rises from the ashes.
https://reb00ted.org/tech/20220727-end-of-social-networking/
Amazon to acquire maker of Roomba vacuums for roughly $1.7 billion
Tags: tech, amazon, robotic, surveillance
With some of the late moves from iRobot to hoard data from their robots as they are mapping homes during their work, this acquisition is a tad worrying.
Gregory Szorc’s Digital Home | Achieving A Completely Open Source Implementation of Apple Code Signing and Notarization
Tags: tech, apple
Good news for anyone who got to target that evil platform… if you have to make a multiplatform application this might ease your pain.
‘The best thing we can do today to JavaScript is to retire it,’ says JSON creator Douglas Crockford • DEVCLASS
Tags: tech, javascript, web, browser
Admittedly I share the sentiment… I don’t think there is any viable solution in sight though.
https://devclass.com/2022/08/04/retire_javascript_says-json-creator-douglas-crockford/
Don’t call it a comeback: Why Java is still champ · GitHub
Tags: tech, java, history
Interesting Java history put in perspective. Indeed it’s been stagnant and have been picking up again… reminds me of another famous language.
https://github.com/readme/featured/java-programming-language
Redis Explained
Tags: tech, caching, databases, redis
Nice primer on how Redis works and the type of deployments you can choose from.
https://architecturenotes.co/redis/
pdf-diff: A tool for visualizing differences between two pdf files.
Tags: tech, tools, pdf
That looks like a nifty and convenient tool.
https://github.com/serhack/pdf-diff
Reduce Friction – Ceejbot’s notes
Tags: tech, processes, organization, business, automation, codereview
Lots of good advices about processes and organizations. It’s nicely points out that friction is not necessarily wrong… if you get something out of it. Also neat reminder in there that code review are here to complete work which is already socialized somehow. If you can’t find reviewers it’s a sign of an organizational problem when the work started.
https://blog.ceejbot.com/posts/reduce-friction/
I assure you, medieval people bathed.
Tags: history
Let’s get the record about medieval time straight, shall we? They weren’t as filthy as we like to pretend, far from it.
https://going-medieval.com/2019/08/02/i-assure-you-medieval-people-bathed/
How to get safe drinkable water for 20$ ? - Ceramic water filter - Tutorial - YouTube
Tags: low-tech, water
Seriously this is an awesome and badly needed technology. Let’s hope it spreads.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_NOZ8zREqkE
Bye for now!