Good morning from Charlottesville, Virginia! ☕️
Happy Thanksgiving weekend! I hope y’all were able to spend some time with friends and family around the dinner table eating way too much food and more pie than should be legal. I know I certainly did. We had a small gathering. Just Kim and I and our youngest daughter and her partner. Simple but very enjoyable. 🦃🥧
As for work. We hit a major milestone. The app we’ve toiled over, our Ship of Theseus, has reached completion! We’ve gone from the creation of a hybrid native/React Native application to a fully React Native application and it’s been approved in the Apple App Store and the Google Play Store! 🥳 It was a tremendous amount of work and the team has performed beautifully! Congratulations to all involved!
The App will be released in early December. I’m so excited!
Amazon’s 14,000-plus layoffs announcedlast month touched almost every piece of the company’s sprawling business, from cloud computing and devices to advertising, retail and grocery stores. But one job category bore the brunt of cuts more than others: engineers
I have a friend who was hit my this. He’s was a contractor there, but it still hit him, and I don’t think contractors are included in those numbers. It’s a real shame. If they really want to move faster they’d keep the devs and they could use LLMs to move faster. It’s just another tool. ❤️
Canva quietly dropped a bombshell at the launch of the company’s Johannesburg office on Tuesday: the design giant is seriously considering porting its Affinity creative software to Linux.
I know a lot of folks are upset by the Affinity acquisition but I really like this idea!
I’m seeing a lot of chatter from folks about switching to Linux (probably won’t happen) and having major apps like Affinity on their platform would be extremely helpful to adoption.
As I understand it Windows 11 is not so great, which is a real shame because it has a very nice underpinning.
Despite having their own advantages and disadvantages, inline four-cylinder engines have come a long way, going from being efficient commuter motors to performance champions.
I have to admit I love the roar of race cars, from NASCAR to F1 to Indy Car to World Rally Championship. Hearing, smelling, and watching fast cars perform at the top of their game is thrilling.
Hearing that a four cylinder engine can produce as much power as a V8 is great for internal combustion cars, but we need to stop making them for the general population. They need to become speciality items. We need to make EV’s the everyday car, affordable to all socioeconomic classes. 🚙
Zig and Qt make for a surprisingly effective combination for cross platform GUI development.
Zig may not be completely memory safe — which is kind of a shame — but it’s still a great choice for good old C and C++ developers.
The article is a good read and Zig looks to be a very good choice for cross platform development.
I’ll be using Swift for the Windows version of Stream sometime in the next 10 years. 🤣
Nothing manmade has reached further from Earth than the Voyager series of spacecraft. Hurtling away from the sun at 38,000 miles an hour, the duo have now traveled over 12 billion miles, with Voyager 1 set to be a light-day from Earth by the end of this month.
It’s still about a year away, but Voyager — perhaps V’Ger for you Trekkies — is amazing feat of science and engineering.
Raymond Chen • The Old New Thing
A customer reported that their program encountered rendering problems when they created elements that were a half billion pixels tall, and they wondered why this was happening.
Raymon Chen is a national treasure. He works on the wildest problems and can you imagine hearing that someone wants to display something a half billion pixels tall? 😳
To be a professional long snapper is to have your worth measured by maybe a half-dozen plays every week. A pass-fail exam each time for a brotherhood of perfectionists. But the job is also a quest. Do it well enough, and there is stability and longevity in a game not noted for either. There is general health, or better odds for it. There are multimillion-dollar contracts that buy a lot of freedom when you’re done.
True story. When my brother was in his senior year of high school he was contacted by a coach from the Denver Broncos. They’d seen his film as a long snapper and wanted him to attend Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and continue long snapping under the tutelage of a coach there so they could perhaps draft him when he graduated. Ultimately he took a different path because he loved chemistry and eventually earned his Pharm.D at University of California San Francisco, but he wonders what would’ve happened if he’d gone the football route. 😀
It’s another Monday morning, sitting down at the computer. And I see a stack of alerts from the last hour of packages showing signs of malware in our triage queue. Having not yet finished my first cup of coffee, I see Shai Hulud indicators. Yikes, surely that’s a false positive? Nope, welcome to Monday, Shai Hulud struck again. Strap in.
Ugh. The npm community has some big fish to fry. They have to solve this problem. You can’t have folks using your package manager, used by who knows how many developers, as a virus factory. 🦠
Given how many internet conspiracies are actively harmful to our social fabric, it’s always heartening to see one that’s slightly lower stakes. How about: Timothée Chalamet, A-lister, our swaggy Paul Atreides and star of the upcoming Marty Supreme, is secretly EsDeeKid, a viral rapper from Liverpool, whose songs have been climbing into the top 20 of the UK singles chart in recent weeks.
When I read this I just smiled. How cool would it be if this is true and nobody ever proves it. 😆
I really like seeing the occasional anonymous band pop up. My favorite being Sleep Token.
