Rust is a lot more niche and intimidating of a language compared to Swift. Swift is familiar to C++ devs, while modernizing the language and toolchain, and providing safety guarantees.

Also, Safari on Windows had low usage, and was probably a pain to maintain. Swift cross platform is more about abstracting out Apple specific things (like the standard library and UI toolkit). Apple has already been investing multi-year efforts into Swift on the server for longer than Safari on Windows existed. The last couple versions of Swift (~3-4years of development) have been almost entirely focused on safe concurrency, which is intended for server-side development.

Actually, this isn’t true. Apple has a vested interest in cross platform Swift. They’ve been pushing hard for Swift on Linux because they want Swift to run on servers, and they’re right to. Look at how hard JavaScript dominates on the server-side because of one language everywhere.

I’ve worked with Swift a bunch for Apple platforms, am mildly familiar with how it works on other platforms. It should be able to compile on a wide host of platforms with minimal/no issues. The runtime dependencies are localized to Apple platforms, and I think the dominant UI toolkit on other platforms is a Swift port of qt. So it should be just fine?

What’s wrong with Business Insider? Genuine question

You declare it in the package.json as a category when publishing. It’s completely self-selected with no oversight, review, or enforced permissions.

I believe they’re referring to lower down in the article, where the researchers analyzed existing extensions on the marketplace:

After the successful experiment, the researchers decided to dive into the threat landscape of the VSCode Marketplace, using a custom tool they developed named ‘ExtensionTotal’ to find high-risk extensions, unpack them, and scrutinize suspicious code snippets.

Through this process, they have found the following:

• 1,283 with known malicious code (229 million installs).
• 8,161 communicating with hardcoded IP addresses.
• 1,452 running unknown executables.
• 2,304 that are using another publisher’s Github repo, indicating they are a copycat.

The WinAmp maybe sorta open-sourcing is interesting. I’ve never used it (aside from downloading it to get MilkDrop working in Foobar2000).

These names are really fun! Good ones to add to my list…

Cool to see the Immich team going full time. I don’t use it personally but I hear great things

You mean like git sparse-checkout? Admittedly experimental but useful

My “scrum leader” (who we handled agile just fine without before) is constantly complaining about points or priorities shifting, to the point that he’ll tell us to not put what we’re actually working on on the board because it’ll mess up the burndown chart.

One of the 4 values of agile is “responding to change over following a plan”. He’s parroted this to us before, and yet still doesn’t seem to see the irony.

Please, let’s get a little better data in here…

UPDATE real_influencers SET inactive_date=2024-03-29 WHERE name = 'Simon Riggs';

One of my biggest annoyances when talking to (especially older) people about my job as a software engineer is when they’re like “but how are you still working on it? Don’t you just like, make the app and you’re done?” They don’t realize the amount of work it takes to write everything, because they don’t understand the complexity involved in writing software.

Though it’s not as bad as “so I have an app idea… It’s like Uber but for clothing”

Also, I was just looking this morning at writing something like that Fitbit/influxDB integration for YNAB (You Need a Budget) for visualization in grafana!

I usually don’t pay much attention to the “new software” section, but PerPlexed looks pretty cool! It never occurred to me that it would be possible to create an alternative Plex UI from scratch like that

You should reach out to the authors! I have no clue how they create their “new” section

Also, that CLI trick is crazy! Never knew that and I’m a fairly proficient shell user.

Anyone use authentik? Seems useful, most of my homelab services are unsecured ATM (just local only/vpn)

The thought of colocating my homelab is intriguing… But also sounds like way too much effort and money