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• Saagar Enjeti on X — Microsoft Data says that US office workers are spending 300% more time in meetings today compared to 2020
• What's new in C# 13
• Google promised a better search experience — now it’s telling us to put glue on our pizza — Google’s AI Overviews feature is delivering incorrect answers faster than ever.
• Sam Altman’s ‘Inconsistent Candor’ Is Showing — As Scarlett Johansson threatens legal action over ChatGPT's voice, the OpenAI CEO's trustworthiness is once again being called into question.
• OpenAI has a new safety team — it’s run by Sam Altman — With three OpenAI board members on the new safety team, will it really be so safe?
• DHS establishes Artificial Intelligence Safety and Security Board — The Board’s first meeting is planned for early May when they will begin the task of focusing on how to develop and deploy AI technology within the United States’ critical infrastructure safely and securely.
• Over 20 Technology and Critical Infrastructure Executives, Civil Rights Leaders, Academics, and Policymakers Join New DHS Artificial Intelligence Safety and Security Board to Advance AI’s Responsible Development and Deployment — President Biden directed Secretary Alejandro N. Mayorkas to establish the Board, which includes 22 representatives from a range of sectors, including software and hardware companies, critical infrastructure operators, public officials, the civil rights community, and academia. The
• House holds hearing on the use of AI in U.S. security and defense — 5/22/2024 - YouTube — The House Committee on Homeland Security holds a hearing to examine how artificial intelligence can be used in homeland security and the implications for AI use. Witnesses testifying at the hearing include: Troy Demmer, co-founder and chief product officer at Gecko Robotics; Michael Sikorski, chief technology officer and VP of engineering at Unit 42 of Palo Alto Networks; Ajay Amlani, president and head of the Americas at iProov; and Jake Laperruque, deputy director of Security and Surveillance Project at The Center for Democracy and Technology.
• Albacore ☁️ on X — I was able to get Recall working on this bad boy 😎 Snapdragon 7c+ Gen3, 3.4 GB of RAM, no NPU in sight
• Elon Musk’s xAI raises $6 billion to fund its race against ChatGPT and all the rest — Musk claims xAI is valued at $18 billion, as it reportedly seeks to build its own AI supercomputer by late next year.
• ESG ETFs Struggle to Keep Investors on Board — Over the past 12 months, the $13.3 billion iShares ESG Aware MSCI USA ETF (ESGU) has experienced $9.2 billion worth of outflows. The $1 billion Xtrackers MSCI USA Leaders Equity ETF (USSG) has watched $2.5 billion go out the door over the same period. And the $1.2 billion iShares ESG MSCI USA Leaders ETF (SUSL) has suffered $2.3 billion worth of outflows.
• Star Trek: Infinite on Steam — Star Trek: Infinite is a grand strategy experience that lets you play your own Star Trek story as the leader of one of four major factions in the galaxy. Follow the specially crafted story or blaze your own trail in the first Star Trek grand strategy game.
• Star Trek: Starfleet Academy — Star Trek: Starfleet Academy is a Star Trek PC simulation game developed and published by Interplay in 1997.
• New Series Order for 'Star Trek: Starfleet Academy' Announced — The all-new original series from CBS Studios will follow the adventures of a new class of Starfleet cadets!

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• Christian Keil on X — So GitLab posts their internal Zoom call recordings on YouTube, and some have HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of views... Because people use them to pretend like they're working.
• Product Marketing Meeting (weekly) 2021-06-28 - YouTube
• Build a Custom LLM with Chat With RTX — Chat With RTX is a demo app that lets you personalize a GPT large language model (LLM) connected to your own content—docs, notes, videos, or other data. Leveraging retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), TensorRT-LLM, and RTX acceleration, you can query a custom chatbot to quickly get contextually relevant answers. And because it all runs locally on your Windows RTX PC or workstation, you’ll get fast and secure results.
• Charlie Bilello on X — With a $1.83 trillion market cap, Nvidia just passed Amazon to become the 4th largest US company.
• Sam Altman wants up to $7 trillion for AI chips. The natural resources required would be 'mind boggling' — “If it does work out, the amount of natural resources that will be required is just mind-boggling,” she told VentureBeat. “Even if the energy is renewable (which it isn’t guaranteed to be), the quantity of water and rare earth minerals required is astronomical.”
• garry on X — Google's Gemini can't show me the fastest way to copy memory in c# because it's unethical.
• Apple won’t be forced to open up iMessage by EU — The European Commission has decided against designating iMessage as a core platform service. Microsoft’s Edge browser, Bing search engine, and advertising business also avoided the additional scrutiny.

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• Google admits Spotify pays no Play Store fees because of a secret deal — The details surfaced today after Google requested the court to keep the specifics of its deal with Spotify sealed earlier in the month.
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• I Hacked Magic the Gathering: Arena for a 100% Winrate — I could make opponents concede at will so that I never lost a game in Magic: The Gathering Arena
• China’s cyber intrusions have hit ports and utilities, officials say - The Washington Post
• An Unprecedented Look at Stuxnet, the World's First Digital Weapon
• The surprising connection between after-hours work and decreased productivity — Slack’s Workforce Index uncovers new findings on how to structure the workday to maximize employee productivity, well-being and satisfaction
• Should You Watch Babylon 5? — If you liked DS9 seasons 4-7, you'll like B5 even more. If you hated DS9 seasons 4-7, you'll hate B5 even more.
• Musk's Neuralink to start human trial of brain implant — Neuralink said on Tuesday it has received approval from an independent review board to begin recruitment for the first human trial of its brain implant for paralysis patients.
• Are my podcast downloads declining because of iOS 17? — : Apple's changes help close the gap between downloads and actual listening behaviour. Not every downloaded episode gets played. So, fewer automatic downloads mean fewer downloads sitting unplayed on people's phones. For sponsors and advertisers, fewer automatic downloads mean fewer ads and promos that never get heard.
• Let’s build an AMD Ryzen Framework 13 DIY together - YouTube — A new challenger enters the ring. The Framework 13 with AMD Ryzen CPU batch 10 arrived at Badger Labs this weekend, so Iets build it!!

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• Analogue is making a 4K Nintendo 64 — The company behind the Analogue Pocket turns its attention to the N64. We don’t know what the console will look like yet, but it’s launching in 2024.
• Analogue
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• Google to defend generative AI users from copyright claims — "To our knowledge, Google is the first in the industry to offer a comprehensive, two-pronged approach to indemnity" that specifically covers both types of claims, a company spokesperson said.
• AI Could Cause a Financial Crash Within a Decade, SEC Head Says — Banking has embraced AI, with Morgan Stanley rolling out a chatbot advisor based on OpeanAI's GPT4.
• The AI Profitability Problem - dominickm.com — In the rapidly evolving world of AI technology, challenges abound, from hardware dependencies to business model uncertainties and emerging regulatory concerns.
• The CEO of Dropbox Has a 90/10 Rule for Remote Work — "If you trust people and treat them like adults, they'll behave like adults. Trust over surveillance," said Houston.
• Chat Control 2.0: EU governments set to approve the end of private messaging and secure encryption — By making a minor concession EU governments hope to find a majority next week to approve the controversial „chat control“ bill. According to the proposed child sexual abuse regulation (CSAR), providers of messengers, e-mail and chat services would be forced to automatically search all private messages and photos for suspicious content and report it to the EU.
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• U.S. Tightens Curbs on AI Chip Exports to China, Widening Rift With Nvidia and Intel — New rules make it tougher for the U.S. businesses to sell advanced semiconductors to the Chinese market
• Top FTX Executive Says Sam Bankman-Fried Used Customer Money for ‘Excess’ Spending — Nishad Singh, testifying at Mr. Bankman-Fried’s fraud trial, said FTX customer deposits were used to buy luxury real estate and to pay athletes like Tom Brady and Steph Curry for endorsement deals.

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• Visual Studio for Mac Retirement Announcement — Today we are announcing the retirement of the Visual Studio for Mac IDE. Visual Studio for Mac 17.6 will continue to be supported for another 12 months, until August 31st, 2024
• Microsoft blames outage on small staff, automation failures — Just three people were on duty in Australia when 'power sag' struck and software failures left them blind
• Apple Claims Vision Pro SDK Downloads Exceeded Expectations Amid Developer Lab Attendance Concerns — The affirmation comes on the heels of concerns highlighted by Bloomberg's Mark Gurman last month claiming that the developer labs have been "under-filled with small amounts of developers."
• Apple's Vision Pro Developer Labs Not Drawing Many Attendees — Any developer can apply to attend a developer lab, but Apple is not reimbursing for travel, and developers located on the east coast of the United States will have to fund cross-country travel to get to the lab.
• Elon Musk wants to turn X into a LinkedIn competitor — All in the name of turning X into an "everything app."
• Elon Musk's X obtains required license for crypto payments — Notably, Rhode Island approved a requested license by Twitter Payments LLC — X’s payment branch — on August 28, according to data from NMLS. The “Currency Transmitter” license also includes different crypto-related service providers, such as crypto exchanges, wallets, and payment processors.

Plus, Chris levels up his Mac skillz and gets his MacBook Pro under control.

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• The Unicorn Project — The Unicorn Project reveals the Five Ideals: The First Ideal of Locality and Simplicity; The Second Ideal of Focus, Flow, and Joy; The Third Ideal of Improvement of Daily Work; The Fourth Ideal of Psychological Safety; and the Fifth Ideal of Focus on the Customer.
• The Effective Manager — The Effective Manager is a hands-on practical guide to great management at every level. Written by the man behind Manager Tools, the world's number-one business podcast, this book distills the author's 25 years of management training expertise into clear, actionable steps to start taking today.
• URLSession — The URLSession class and related classes provide an API for downloading data from and uploading data to endpoints indicated by URLs. Your app can also use this API to perform background downloads when your app isn’t running
• Objective-See: LuLu — LuLu is the free, open-source firewall that aims to block unknown outgoing connections, protecting your privacy and your Mac!
• Little Snitch — Little Snitch makes Internet connections visible and puts you back in control!
• Apple Actively Considers The Competitive Profile of 3rd Party Apps
• Don’t Feature Competitors in The App Store
• Sucks to be BigFish Games
• Great to be Netflix
• Jeremy C. Owens on Twitter — After another meeting between Apple and Google senior executives, notes showed that the execs agreed: "Our vision is that we work as if we are one company."

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• Michael Dominick on Twitter — Mesa announcing something new tonight and someone we all know and love who has great hair is going disapprove of the architecture!
• CoderBytes — New super secret project landing page.
• Open Bug Bounty — Free Bug Bounty Program and Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure.
• Michael Dominick on Twitter — I’m submitting a talk entitled “OpenSUSE Evangelism and The @ChrisLAS Challenge” 😈
• ReSharper — The Visual Studio Extension for .NET Developers
• dotUltimate — All .NET tools, ReSharper C++, and JetBrains Rider, together in one pack
• Michael Dominick on Twitter — Damn.... working in #CSharp is just a pleasure.... #Tempation. Does anyone know a lot about how @dotnet #Linux binaries compare in comparison to #cpp ones? I am reconsidering some of my choices here....
• The iMac Pro has been discontinued — Apple confirms the meaning behind "while supplies last" note in online store.
• Apple discontinues the iMac Pro — More notably, the iMac Pro is a product from a different time, and represents a path Apple ultimately chose not to take with the Mac. When Apple announced in April 2017 it would make a new Mac Pro and was recommitting to its core pro customers, the iMac Pro was about to be announced. When it shipped that December, it felt very much like an interim step, a computer that was built as the replacement for the Mac Pro, only to have the Mac Pro survive after all.
• MWC Barcelona Conference Planning for 50,000 In-Person — As reported by Bloomberg, GSMA, the organizer of MWC Barcelona, says that it plans to hold the conference in-person between June 28 and July 1, with expectations of up to 50,000 attendees.

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• Michael Dominick on Twitter — "Of all my machines, the humble Lemur has once again become my daily driver. Great machine from the folks at @system76."
• GIGABYTE M27Q 27" 170Hz 1440P KVM Gaming Monitor — 170Hz Refresh Rate, 0.5ms (MPRT) Response Time
• Rust: "Move fast and break things" as a moral imperative — Rust breaks a lot of stuff, and in ways that are difficult to fix
• Facebook Just Admitted It Has Lost the Battle With Apple Over Privacy — The company launched an ad campaign that shows just how worried it is about Apple's upcoming privacy changes.
• Gmail for iOS Updated for the First Time in Three Months — After neglecting the app for several months, Google today finally updated Gmail on the App Store for the first time in exactly three months.
• Stadia version of Terraria is back in production after developer reconciles with Google — The co-creator previously announced it was canceled
• Why TMB Chose C++ in '21 — We went with C++. Before you flip your lid, here’s why.

Plus npm bans terminal ads, what comes after Rust, and why Mike hates macros.

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• Feedback: Getting started on .NET? — My question is what is the easiest route to get started in .net development? When I looked online there are several different languages that can be used from C# ,F#, ASP.NEt among others. In your personal experience what is the easiest way to get started on this path?
• Feedback: Questioning Rust — [...] The primary issue here is that most of the work to prove that safety (beyond "trust me" blocks) is pushed onto the developer instead of having the compiler insert protections surmised from uses of the data structures outlined in the source code.  After all, it can only prove what it is shown, not what it assumes.
• Feedback on Mike and Macros — I'd also love to hear more about what you dislike about macros. Personally, I view Rust's macro system as one of its biggest selling points. I've written more than a few macros myself and, every time, they've simplified my code in ways I couldn't have managed without them. Perhaps more importantly, I've also noticed that many of my favorite crates make heavy use of macros—and doing so lets them expose a much more ergonomic API.
• The Imposter's Handbook by Rob Conery — You've had to learn on the job. New languages, new frameworks, new ways of doing things - a constant struggle just to stay current in the industry. This left no time to learn the foundational concepts and skills that come with a degree in Computer Science.
• npm Bans Terminal Ads — After last week a popular JavaScript library started showing full-blown ads in the npm command-line interface, npm, Inc., the company that runs the npm tool and website, has taken a stance and plans to ban such behavior in the future.
• Apple wants to remove scripting languages from macOS — Scripting language runtimes such as Python, Ruby, and Perl are included in macOS for compatibility with legacy software. In future versions of macOS, scripting language runtimes won’t be available by default, and may require you to install an additional package. If your software depends on scripting languages, it’s recommended that you bundle the runtime within the app
• Building Standalone Python Applications with PyOxidizer — Python hasn't ever had a consistent story for how I give my code to someone else, especially if that someone else isn't a developer and just wants to use my application.
• Traveling Ruby: self-contained, portable Ruby binaries — Traveling Ruby lets you create self-contained Ruby app packages for Windows, Linux and OS X.
• ruby-packer — Packing your Ruby application into a single executable.
• fogus: Notes on Interactive Computing Environments — Your programming environments should be an active partner in the act of creating systems.
• Tim Ewald - Clojure: Programming with Hand Tools — For most of human history, furniture was built by hand using a small set of simple tools. This approach connects you in a profoundly direct way to the work, your effort to the result. This changed with the rise of machine tools, which made production more efficient but also altered what's made and how we think about making it in in a profound way. This talk explores the effects of automation on our work, which is as relevant to software as it is to furniture, especially now that once again, with Clojure, we are building things using a small set of simple tools.
• Things You Didn't Know About GNU Readline — GNU Readline is an unassuming little software library that I relied on for years without realizing that it was there. Tens of thousands of people probably use it every day without thinking about it. If you use the Bash shell, every time you auto-complete a filename, or move the cursor around within a single line of input text, or search through the history of your previous commands, you are using GNU Readline.
• bpython — A fancy curses interface to the Python interactive interpreter
• pry — Pry is a runtime developer console and IRB alternative with powerful introspection capabilities. Pry aims to be more than an IRB replacement. It is an attempt to bring REPL driven programming to the Ruby language.
• Ammonite — Ammonite lets you use the Scala language for scripting purposes: in the REPL, as scripts, as a library to use in existing projects, or as a standalone systems shell.
• rebel-readline — A terminal readline library for Clojure Dialects
• litecli — A command-line client for SQLite databases that has auto-completion and syntax highlighting.

Links:

• Porting Redis to WebAssembly with Clang/WASI — In this post, we share our experience of porting an existing open-source software package — the data structure server Redis — to WebAssembly. While this is not the first time that Redis has been ported to Wasm (see this port by Sergey Rublev), it is the first time to our knowledge that the obtained port can be run deterministically.
• Solving Problems the Clojure Way - Rafal Dittwald — It is said that Clojure is a "functional" programming language; there's also talk of "data-driven" programming. What are these things? Are they any good? Why are they good? In this talk, Rafal attempts to distill the particular blend of functional and data-driven programming that makes up "idiomatic Clojure", clarify what it looks like in practise (with real-world examples), and reflect on how Clojure's conventions came to be and how they continue to evolve.
• The Value of Values with Rich Hickey — In this keynote speech from JaxConf 2012, Rich Hickey, creator of Clojure and founder of Datomic gives an awesome analysis of the changing way we think about values.
• Clojure Made Simple by Rich Hickey — In the seven years following its initial release, Clojure has become a popular alternative language on the JVM, seeing production use at financial firms, major retailers, analytics companies, and startups large and small. It has done so while remaining decidedly alternative—eschewing object orientation for functional programming, C-derived syntax for code-as-data, static typing for dynamic typing, REPL-driven development, and so on. Underpinning these differences is a commitment to the principle that we should be building our systems out of fundamentally simpler materials. This session looks at what makes Clojure different and why.
• Effective Programs: 10 Years of Clojure by Rich Hickey
• sparklemotion/mechanize — Mechanize is a ruby library that makes automated web interaction easy.
• How to write idempotent Bash scripts — It happens a lot, you write a bash script and half way it exits due an error. You fix the error in your system and run the script again. But half of the steps in your scripts fail immediately because they were already applied to your system. To build resilient systems you need to write software that is idempotent.

Plus Mike's battles with fan noise, and why he's doubling down on the eGPU lifestyle.

Links:

• Thelio Fan Noise Hack - Mike's Blog — I’ve had a System 76 Thelio for a little over four months now and a consistent issue that I’ve been experiencing is persistent fan noise even when the machine is idle.
• Advent of Code 2015
• Elixir — Elixir leverages the Erlang VM, known for running low-latency, distributed and fault-tolerant systems, while also being successfully used in web development and the embedded software domain.
• Mike on Twitter — Someone tell @wespayne that I hate him ;) He introduced me to @elixirlang and it's like fast #Ruby. I think I might be hooked. Totally failed to get anything done though lol
• Elixir vs. Ruby and Phoenix vs. Rails: Detailed Comparison and Use Cases — If you are facing the Elixir vs. Ruby/Phoenix vs. Rails dilemma, the best way to decide is to cater to the needs of your project. In fact, it is even possible to use both technologies in one project by choosing which of them works best for each individual feature. For example, you can implement chats with Elixir Phoenix, and the rest of the code can be written in Ruby on Rails.
• TypeScript - JavaScript that scales. — TypeScript is a typed superset of JavaScript that compiles to plain JavaScript.
• Why TypeScript · TypeScript Deep Dive — Types have proven ability to enhance code quality and understandability. However, types have a way of being unnecessarily ceremonious. TypeScript is very particular about keeping the barrier to entry as low as possible.
• Basic Types · TypeScript Handbook
• TypeScript Playground
• microsoft/TypeScript-New-Handbook — Incubation repository for the new TypeScript handbook.
• Introduction - fp-ts — fp-ts provides developers with popular patterns and reliable abstractions from typed functional languages in TypeScript.
• Purify — Functional programming library for TypeScript
• piotrwitek/utility-types — Collection of utility types, complementing TypeScript built-in mapped types and aliases (think "lodash" for static types).
• Solving Problems the Clojure Way - Rafal Dittwald — After overcoming a fear of brackets, the next challenge for would-be Clojurians is less superficial: to stop writing Java (or Javascript, or Haskell...) with Clojure's syntax, and actually start "thinking" in Clojure. It is said that Clojure is a "functional" programming language; there's also talk of "data-driven" programming. What are these things? Are they any good? Why are they good? In this talk, Rafal attempts to distill the particular blend of functional and data-driven programming that makes up "idiomatic Clojure", clarify what it looks like in practise (with real-world examples), and reflect on how Clojure's conventions came to be and how they continue to evolve.

Plus when it's okay to lie to the compiler, what GitHub's Sponsors program means for open source, and your feedback.

Links:

• Coder Radio 343: Say My Functional Name — Mike breaks down the drama around nullable reference types in C# 8.0, and we debate what it means for the future of the language.
• Coder Radio 358 Feedback — In the discussion of Marzipan and Electron I think the answer is WKWebView, which just arrived in macOS 10.10.
• Show Content Poll — What Do You Want More of on #CoderRadio @CoderRadioShow this is your chance to give me some feedback for the next few months!
• Why Computer Programmers Should Stop Calling Themselves Engineers — The respectability of engineering, a feature built over many decades of closely controlled, education- and apprenticeship-oriented certification, becomes reinterpreted as a fast-and-loose commitment to craftwork as business.
• About GitHub Sponsors — Anyone with a GitHub account can sponsor anyone with a sponsored developer profile through a recurring monthly payment. You can choose from multiple sponsorship tiers, with monthly payment amounts and benefits that are set by the sponsored developer.
• Lying to the compiler | Jon Skeet's coding blog — I’m lying to the compiler to get it to stop it emitting a warning. The reason is that in the case where the value is null, it won’t matter that it’s null.
• Programming Language Tourism | Bushido Codes — I am attracted to this book precisely because it is impractical. You don’t gain mastery of any programming languages. Rather, you get the chance to explore and complete a series of coding katas to expand your mind about the art of programming.
• Seven Languages in Seven Weeks: A Pragmatic Guide to Learning Programming Languages by Bruce A. Tate | The Pragmatic Bookshelf — You should learn a programming language every year, as recommended by The Pragmatic Programmer. But if one per year is good, how about Seven Languages in Seven Weeks? In this book you’ll get a hands-on tour of Clojure, Haskell, Io, Prolog, Scala, Erlang, and Ruby.
• Uno Platform — The only platform for building native mobile, desktop and WebAssembly with C#, XAML from single codebase. Open source and professionally supported.
• Uno.QuickStart — This repository is a basic sample for an Uno application which cross-targets UWP, iOS, Android and WebAssembly.

Plus some code to read, your feedback, and more!

Links:

• Elastic Beanstalk Retirement — Feedback from Sekhar
• Professional development — Question from Ashetyn
• Francesco Cesarini on Twitter — It is with great sadness that I share news of Joe Armstrong's passing away earlier today. Whilst he may no longer be with us, his work has laid the foundation which will be used by generations to come. RIP @joeerl, thank you for inspiring us all.
• Goodbye Joe — One of the amazing things Joe mentioned in his texts that was out of the ordinary compared to everything I had read before is that developers would make mistakes and we could not prevent them all. Instead, we had to be able to cope with them. He did not just tell you about a language, he launched you on a trail that taught you how to write entire systems
• Goodbye Joe in r/programming — About two weeks ago I came across Armstrong's blog for the first time and poked around at a few posts. I noticed he had recently (in the past year was my impression) discovered TiddlyWiki and rewritten his blog in it. His post talking about his eureka moment with TiddlyWiki had the feel of a very young, excited writer, so I was very surprised to later discover his age. I didn't know about him for very long, but the character described in this post really shined through.
• Joe the office mate — Joe would get wildly excited by one "big idea" for weeks at a time. This could be a new idea of his own or a "well known" idea of somebody else's: the Rsync algorithm; public key cryptography; diff algorithms; parsing algorithms; etc. He would take an idea off the shelf, think (and talk!) about it very intensely for a while, and then put it back for a while and dive into the next topic that felt ripe.
• Why OO Sucks — Note that this is an older post.
• Erlang/OTP 21.3 — Welcome to Erlang/OTP, a complete development environment for concurrent programming.
• One secret to becoming a great software engineer: read code — Similarly, seeing diverse coding practices lets you expand your palette when it comes time to write your own code. Reading others’ code exposes you to new language functionality and different coding styles.
• djblue/tetris — An almost complete tetris in clojurescript
• Animated guide to building tetris with Clojurescript
• The Mad Botter INC on Twitter — Happy #EarthDay! We are awarding a free @system76 #DarterPro to the middle or high school student that can send our CEO @dominucco an innovative idea to@fight climate change using #Linux. To submit please write up a report and diagram & email it to michael@themadbotter.com

Plus Mike’s swimming in hardware, and a new movement sweeping the web that starts right here.

Links:

• Yo, Thelio! - dominickm.com — Overall, I am very happy with Thelio and if you’re interesting in running Linux on a desktop full-time, I recommend you consider it.
• Michael Dominick on Twitter — 10 minutes in and the #DarterPro has the best non-Mac trackpad I’ve ever used.
• Michael Dominick on Twitter — Yeah, so @ChrisLAS I have fallen hard off the old man sleep wagon and it's deeply sub-optimal.
• SCaLE 17x — SCaLE is the largest community-run open-source and free software conference in North America. It is held annually in the greater Los Angeles area.
• C# 8: The switch expression — C# 8 delivers a few new C# features to developers, and it is nice to see the language improving, but today I would like to talk about only one and it is "switch expressions".
• Don’t Get Clever with Login Forms | Brad Frost — Let’s walk through some login patterns and why I think they’re not ideal. And then let’s look at some better ways of tackling login.
• Canonical Announces Latest Ubuntu Core for IoT » Linux Magazine — Canonical has announced Ubuntu Core 18, their open source platform for IoT devices. Ubuntu Core 18 is based on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS code-base and will be supported for 10 years.
• Andrew Madsen on Twitter — It’s weird how the iOS community has shifted so much from “iOS development” to “Swift”. 5 years on, and a huge part of what everyone’s doing revolves around the language, not how to create great apps. Why is that?
• Michael Dominick on Twitter — Thinking more about this conversation about how the #iOSDev #macOs scene has changed online, it occurs to me that there’s a platform where that past ethos of “just build cool things” lives — desktop #Linux and @elementary in particular #CoderRadio @ChrisLAS
• 16-Inch MacBook Pro With All-New Design Expected in 2019 — Kuo also says Apple may add a 32GB RAM option to the 13-inch MacBook Pro, without providing further details.

Plus a fresh reminder of Apple's absolute App Store authority, and the state of Mike's relationship with the rust compiler.

Links:

• RustPython: A Python Interpreter written in Rust
• Apple bans Facebook’s Research app that paid users for data
• Apple restores Google’s own internal iPhone apps after privacy brouhaha — For less than a day, Apple had briefly revoked Google’s iOS certificate that enabled those private apps to conduct various internal business such as company shuttles, food menus, as well as pre-release beta testing, and more.
• Apple Developer Enterprise Program — Get tools and resources to transform your mobile workforce with enterprise-class apps, distributed seamlessly and securely within your organization.
• Apple Is Fighting a Good Fight Against Facebook and Google — The implication that Apple is exhibiting some monopolistic urge to gutshot Facebook and Google makes close to zero sense. The events of this week will not affect their bottom lines, and Apple could have taken much more drastic action to lock down iOS — as it has before.
• Nilay Patel on Twitter — Hi, I'm the nagging voice in the back of your head pointing out that it's pretty intense that Apple can simply decide to prevent people from running code on their phones.
• Essential .NET - C# 8.0 and Nullable Reference Types — Nonetheless, as it currently stands, and even after 7 versions of C#, we still don’t have a perfect language.
• Make your next C# project non-nullable — The naming is a bit confusing, because reference types have always been nullable, and that’s the whole problem. The novelty is that they can now also be non-nullable.
• Switch to errors instead of warnings for nullable reference types in C# 8 — Nullable reference types coming in C# 8 are a great addition to anyone’s toolbox. But if you tried it you probably know “just” warnings are produced. And sometimes you’d like to have errors instead of warnings, so the build fails hard or something like that. It’s surprisingly easy to do so.

Links:

• Mark's IoT Feedback
• IOKit — The I/O Kit framework implements non-kernel access to I/O Kit objects (drivers and nubs) through the device-interface mechanism.
• Does iPad Pro (2018) support IOKit? — IOKit has included iOS support since 2.0
• Elixir — Elixir is a dynamic, functional language designed for building scalable and maintainable applications.
• Craft and deploy bulletproof embedded software in Elixir
• NervesHub — NervesHub helps you manage firmware updates for Nerves devices.
• Elixir Mix Podcast — A weekly discussion with Elixir developers.
• Optional - Swift Standard Library — A type that represents either a wrapped value or nil, the absence of a value.
• Swift optionals explained simply
• F# Software Foundation — F# is a mature, open source, cross-platform, functional-first programming language
• Datomic Ions — Ions let you develop applications for the cloud by deploying your code to a running Datomic cluster.
• Rich Hickey on Datomic Ions

Plus the guys define what makes a “Dark Matter Developer”, and gauk at the possibility of this young hip upstart’s automated build pipeline, and share memories of large scale QA testing teams.

Links:

• Mike: I'm Seeing Something Strange...
• MacinCloud — This is the cloud-based Mac solution you are looking for! Access on-demand Mac servers for app development, Mac tasks, and enterprise builds.
• iOS Code Signing in App Cente — An app must be signed to run on a real device during the development process, through a beta program or in the App Store.
• The Day the QA Department Died — Let’s take a step back and examine how things used to work.
• Who needs a separate QA Team? — Have you come across developers who think that having a separate Quality Assurance (QA) team, who could test (manually or auto-magically) their code/software at the end of an iteration/release, will really help them? Personally I think this style of software development is not just dangerous but also harmful to the developers’ growth.
• Why your QA testers quit—and what to do about it — After years of hearing tragic tales of continuous tester turnover, I started to wonder if testing is just a temporary, transitional role for many people.
• Alexa is the future of Amazon’s consumer business — Here’s a quick rundown of the Alexa-enabled products Amazon announced: A wall clock, microwave, subwoofer, an Alexa for the car, a DVR for your TV antenna, a smart plug, and a microphone that turns your existing hi-fi setup into an Alexa-powered audio rig. Oh, and updates to the Echo Dot, Echo Plus, and Echo Show.
• Big Mouth Billy Bass will soon work with Amazon Alexa - The Verge — Amazon says an updated Billy is coming later this year.

Links:

• Fortnite 15 Mil downloads sans Google Play
• Project Loom
• What Color is Your Function
• Generics in Go
• Elixir
• Clojure - Deps and CLI Guide
• Clojure - Getting Started
• Reitit, Data-Driven Routing with Clojure(Script)
• core.async Walkthrough
• Understanding Homoiconicity, the Power Behind Clojure Macros

Plus your emails, a bit of hoopla, and more!

Special Guest: Jérôme Laban.

Links:

• I just went on a coder binge
• Python for Kids: A Playful Introduction To Programming
• No Escaping an Echo Chamber
• Mailspring - The best free email app
• Spark Email
• Uno
• Uno Playground
• Currents

Links:

• Java in a Nutshell: A Desktop Quick Reference: Ben Evans, David Flanagan: 9781492037255: Amazon.com: Books
• Java: The Complete Reference, Eleventh Edition: Herbert Schildt: 9781260440232: Amazon.com: Books
• Modular Programming in Java 9 - O'Reilly Media
• Java 9 Modularity - O'Reilly Media