The metaverse economy: Is it real?
The brief (recent) history of reversing metaverse bets:
- January 2023: Microsoft shuts its virtual workspace AltSpaceVR.
- February 2023: Microsoft ends its industrial metaverse project a mere four months in, and fires 100 people. It also slashes staff from its VR headset HoloLens’ team.
- Also in February 2023: Chinese internet giant Tencent ditches plans to make VR hardware as a mature market for it appears to be many years off.
- March 2023: Meta pivots toward generative AI in its “year of efficiency.”
- Also in March 2023: Walmart shuts down a six-month-old branded space in the gaming world Roblox called Universe of Play.
- March 2023, again: Disney eliminates its Metaverse team, comprising of 50 people.
- June 2023: Google scraps its Project Iris for AR glasses, choosing to focus instead on AR software.
10 years ago… A pity this did not gain momentum.
NetAffair: European Networking Paradigms.
(Still, ed.) few people realise that the original voices from these early days of inter-networking are still around.
Safer, Not Later: How “Move Fast and Break Things” ruined the world by escaping the context that it was intended for.
In the decade since it has been retired as Facebook’s official motto, it has been used to defend some truly horrific abuses within the tech industry. You only need to visit the orange website to see it still being used this way.
I once built and maintained a CA with Helma and OpenSSL.
Filling in the Gaps: HTTPS/TLS Certificates.
The goal here is to show how certs work at the most basic conceptual level, without straying too far into RFCs and X.509 and what have you.
Your GitHub pull request workflow is slowing everyone down.
Stacking transforms how large features get built by having developers split their work into multiple small, interconnected pull requests. Instead of one massive PR, they create a stack of focused changes that build on each other.
The weird world of shark eggs.
It’s likely that you’ve stumbled across a shark egg before, but you may not realise how diverse the colours and shapes really are.
Barliman: Prototype smart text editor.
Given a set of tests for some function foo, Barliman tries to "guess" how to fill in an partially-specified definition of foo to make all of the tests pass.
SQLSync is a collaborative offline-first wrapper around SQLite (via sqlsync.dev).
The best way to get a feel for how SQLSync behaves is to play with the Todo list demo. Clicking this link will create a unique to-do list and redirect you to its unique URL. You can then share that URL with friends or open it on multiple devices (or browsers) to see the power of offline-first collaborative SQLite.
Glicol – Next-generation computer music language (via github.com).
make music with code. connect different nodes like a synth, sequencer or sampler.