18 / Apple’s Mistake

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Tweet of the Week

If I could explain what having kids is like, it’s basically like being on-call for six years so far. — @vboykis

Culture

• Apps Getting Worse (tbray.org)

  Tim Bray thinks apps are getting worse and he has a theory on why.

Software Engineering

• POSH: A Data-Aware Shell (micahlerner.com)

  Micah Lerner about a new distributed, data-aware shell.

• Bloom Filters - Much, much more than a space efficient hashmap! (boyter.org)

  Ben E. C. Boyter about Bloom filters, popular use cases and their alternatives.

• Writing great alt text: Emotion matters (jakearchibald.com)

  Jake Archibald about how to write good alt text.

• So you want to write a GUI framework (cmyr.net)

  Colin Rofls about the must-have components in GUI frameworks and some of the complications you’ll run into.

Rust

• Rust in Production: Qovery (serokell.io)

  Gints Dreimanis about their experience of Rust in production.

• Complex Procedural Rust Macros (getsynth.com)

  Andre Bogus about complex procedural macros in Rust and what to look out for.

• Rust GUI Infrastructure (cmyr.net)

  Colin Rofls about Druid, the GUI framework he’s writing in Rust and what crates and components are useful.

Cutting Room Floor

• Climate change: IPCC report is 'code red for humanity' (bbc.com)

  Matt McGrath about the recent IPCC report code and why it’s so serious.

• One Bad Apple (hackerfactor.com)

  Dr. Neal Krawetz talks about the (likely) technical implementation and alternatives of Apple CSAM.

• Apple’s Mistake (stratechery.com)

  Ben Thompson has a more technical view on Apple CSAM than Krawetz, but comes to the same conclusion: It’s too invasive.

• The Parallel-Parking Job That Ignited the Internet (curbed.com)

  P. E. Moskowitz about a harmless tweet that got a bit too much attention.

• The Simple Life of Humans (hackernoon.com)

  Adrian H. Raudaschl about simplicity and why things shouldn’t get too simple.

• Minimal Maintenance (lapsuslima.com)

  Shannon Mattern about the limits of growth.

• The Ancient Persian way to keep cool (bbc.com)

  Kimiya Shokoohi about the bâdgir, or wind catcher, a cost-efficient and green form of cooling.

• The Evolution of Trust (ncase.me)

  Nicky Case created an interactive game about trust in a society.

• Messaging and Chat Control (patrick-breyer.de)

  Patrick Breyer about the EU’s decision to allow providers to search trough all private chats and messages and emails and how it will affect you.