Sync Engines are the Future.
They collapse the database and the server. If your database is smart enough and capable enough, why would you even need a server? Hosted database saves you from the horrors of hosting and lets your data flow freely to the frontend.
I never thought this was possible in practice, but then Roam Research proved me wrong. For the first few years after public release, they didn’t have a single server. Everything was synced to and served from Firebase. Living the dream.
The work is mysterious and important.
Lars Tunbjörk: Kontor.
I contributed a draft about Melody London to the English Wikipedia.
She began her career in 1984 with Jim Jarmusch’s “Stranger Than Paradise”, which won awards at Cannes and Sundance. London continued working with Jarmusch on “Down by Law”, “Mystery Train”, and segments of “Coffee and Cigarettes”, employing long cuts to emphasize visual storytelling.
Update: Declined, unsurprisingly.
Applications and libraries extending the GNOME ecosystem.
A Society That Lost Focus.
White-collar work can now be summarised as trying to reply as fast as possible to every single email until calling it a day and starting again in the morning, a process which essentially prevents any deep thinking (…)
Dear Beautiful Beloved
Donald Vader’s USA is not rooting for the underdog, anymore. They embrace being The Empire they have been all along.
Relevant: The other Steve is not having it #bullying
Why Your ‘Harmonious’ Team Is Actually Failing.
(…) real psychological safety isn’t about avoiding conflict. It’s about creating an environment where challenging ideas makes the team stronger, not weaker.
OffSec’s Exploit Database Archive.
A mouseless tale: trying for a keyboard-driven desktop.
Relevant: PaperWM.
A through-and-through adorable toy project 😻
purrcrypt: A fur-ociously secure encryption tool that encodes your secrets as adorable cat and dog sounds, using real elliptic curve cryptography with a playful disguise.