Got a bit burned out looking the news and tech podcasts today, except for security news (like from Lapsu$ group) no other news that didn't involve openAI and/or AI in general.
In the web performance space, there's some interesting stuff happening in origin trails around shared dictionary compression. It has been tried and failed before but the latest iteration/spec hopefully improved those shortfalls that made them unusable. Also, ZSTD compression has taken the crown from brotli.
Metas new AR glasses seem to be approaching the ideal hardware, IMO it's still searching for its killer app. Microsoft exited the AR space by killing hololens.
Startup space is dying right now, with very low VC risk tolerance / interest. Some funds have returned money to investors rather than risk it in investing.
Tech meetups seem to be coming back. People want to chat in person. Finding space to meet and sponsors is still not easy, but the demand from the community is there.
Rails continues to deliver a best-in-class batteries included solution for standing up web apps. I see some new folks being pulled into the community; some who enjoy it so much they participate even though their day jobs use some other stack.
As someone else mentioned downstream, IaC is still happening and getting pushed further and further. Whether you are talking about the more standard TF/OpenTofu IaC or some of the newer declarative environment options (I've chatted with the nitric folks), defining infrastructure as software gives you so much power that it seems to be unstoppable.
What I can see is that it could be a nice solution for SPAs that should never have been SPAs in the first place, i.e. mostly static pages with JS navigation used for reasons of fashion.
I'm not being snarky. What apps must be SPA's and why? I'm personally questioning where that line really should be.
It has a tutorial, also a demo and some videos.
So far, 99% of sales are in the "expensive gaming accessory" category. There is fun and interesting UI and gameplay innovation happening here.
The one non-gaming thing everyone seems to want is just a large virtual desktop workspace. Apple has probably come closest here. It sounds like an easy problem but without a high resolution and a wide field of view, it's not a good experience.
https://phpbb.go-here.nl/index.php
It's from December 2000[1] (phpBB 2.0.0 was released in April 2002)
The idea the only thing that remained of 1.4.4 was a broken screenshot[2] didn't agree with me.
[1] - https://www.phpbb.com/about/history/#:~:text=phpBB%201.4.4%2...
[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PhpBB#/media/File:PhpBB1-defau...
For example: The language files have strings with undefined $variables in them. The variables are later set then it uses eval() on the strings. I just make a function with the same name, replace the undefined variables with function params and return the string. The eval() is replaced with the function call (in all files) then do the same with the next string. The php mysql instructions don't work. The sql is mostly fine. It just needs to be prepared statements.
You can just sit down and start writing code (finally!) without pondering what the hell you are doing every other line. Like in the movies.
I think I need to give it a few more years before it reaches a maturity level I would actually use.
As far as development goes, it seems like there has been a lot of advancement in just the past 5 years. Seeing what some of the high end commercial printers are capable of, I think there is still a lot of development left for what home printers can do. The Bambu printers are bound to get some competition. There are also a few competing technologies, and I’m willing to give it some more time to shake out. It still feels very much like a hobbyist tool for people who want to tinker a bit. I want to design and print without a lot of fuss.
I’m not sure how resin stacks up in terms of durability for making parts, but from the perspective of being able to print anything and having it look perfect, it blew my mind.
(I think I've been in the SF tech scene too long-- I've literally had every one of those things pitched to me before)
Meshtastic now has way better encryption from what I hear.
The CH32V 20 cent riscv chips seem to be Arduino ready and somewhat mainstream.