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I see a lot of news about waves of layoffs in large tech companies. Is MS the only shitty place now? I think all of them are, maybe except OpenAI & Anthropic, since they're building something new and are kind of on the "good" side right now.

Wow. Sounds interesting. I also looked for a solution to talk to relatives in case the internet gets blocked. Ended up with XMPP, since it has independent servers in different countries that can talk to each other. But the XMPP clients I tried are pretty bad, with no images or audio/video calls.

Did video calls work during the blackout too? I think calls should work like in the good old Skype days, pure P2P.

There's a difference between coding and programming. Coding itself is not hard — like when you use some framework to build another form on an e-commerce site. But programming itself is harder, since it means you need good knowledge in some area to be really good. Even in the era of agents, real programming is still needed, because AI knows a lot, but asking the right questions or thinking about architecture is still your job.

WezTerm was a nice term and I think it's still ahead of Ghostty in standards support (far fewer renderer bugs). Ideas like built-in tmux were also good and came before their time. But there's been no stable release since February 2024, so the project feels dead to me. Also, large config files are a pain — I like Ghostty's defaults.

Lol, they bought Tailwind CSS, freaked out, and decided not to touch it at all.

GitHub is going the wrong way, but there really is nothing workable for open-source projects except GitHub. I don’t want to register on all these random GitHub killers just to open an issue or PR in a random project I’ve interacted with.

For personal or team setups, any third-party service will work well.

Again Tauri. How then it different from Bitwarden? Desktop != Web

Actually, my problem is not really with NPM itself or the fact that it can be hacked, but with the damn auto-update policy of software – as users we usually have no idea which versions are installed, and there is even no way to roll back to a safe version.

All these Chrome, VSCode, Discord, Electron-apps, browser extensions, etc – they all update ± every week, and I can't even tell what features are being added. For comparison, Sublime updates once a YEAR and I'm totally fine with that.

Totally agree. Who can send this article to Google?

Honestly, I don't even know what you're talking about – I don't have anything like that. Maybe it can be changed in the settings?

I agree that there are too many dependencies in Rust. I support the idea of adding some of the more popular crates to std. Many applications use something like tracing, tracing-subscriber, and basic server/client functionality. It would be great to have simple, minimal-feature implementations of these in std — similar to how Go does it. If someone needs a more complex system, they can still use an external crate, but having basic building blocks in std would really help.

You can read any public Telegram feed in your web browser at the URL: t.me/s/CHANNEL_NAME. So far it doesn't look like a problem with scrappe telegram feeds now. Unlike Reddit / X.

Great idea! Quick and easy link previewing is super useful.

RIP Docker Hub.