I really like the SwiftUI tutorial videos by Martin Lexow, e.g. this one. He doesn't waste much time and just shows what SwiftUI is capable of and how to work with it.
2022-03-03
„Nun sag doch etwas“ https://hmbl.blog/28-2-2028-nun-sag-doch-etwas/
The last few days I had a lot of fun with Relm4. It is an Elm inspired GTK abstraction.
The main problem I had when using gtk-rs directly was managing state. Either you use a Rc<RefCell<_>> and pass it around or you use a background thread managing the state and channels to communicate with it.
Both ways are tedious.
Relm4 abstracts that away and helps managing state in a much better way:
After about 20 years of using Emacs (not always exclusively) I now dabble into Neovim. 🤯
2022-02-03
It's a bit sad how today everybody does a Twitter thread instead of writing a blog post. IMHO most Twitter threads should be blog posts. Same for Mastodon.
It's a bit sad how today everybody does a Twitter thread instead of writing a blog post. IMHO most Twitter threads should be blog posts. Same for Mastodon.
2022-01-07
A pretty interesting article about Free Software, Open Source and the jndi issue https://apenwarr.ca/log/20211229
Just released Webmentions 2.0.0 and Microformats 1.0.0. Be aware: support for Elixir below version 1.10 and OTP below version 23 has been dropped. Besides that it is just a maintenance release with updated dependencies.
„The Web3 Fraud“: „So in the end web3 is a con job, a technological edifice that is beyond useless as anyone who attempts to deploy a real application will quickly discover. It is, however, an amazingly effective form of Nerd Sniping.“ https://www.usenix.org/publications/loginonline/web3-fraud
„The Web3 Fraud“: another take why web3 is utterly bullshit. Tidbit:
So in the end web3 is a con job, a technological edifice that is beyond useless as anyone who attempts to deploy a real application will quickly discover. It is, however, an amazingly effective form of Nerd Sniping.
„The Third Web“ – a very interesting analysis of the web3 hype and why it is bullshit. Everybody should read this. https://tante.cc/2021/12/17/the-third-web/
„Good and bad Elixir“ - a blog post about what makes Elixir code good or bad. I don't agree with everything, but with most of it and I enjoyed the read.