thomasoncoding
@thomasoncoding
Nearly two decades in software starting with @zopa and @bullionvault. Also at https://techtoots.com/@thomasoncoding (A successor account to @thomasbarkercom)
I used Compose as a teenager!
as a VB appreciator I agree w/this to an extent, but I think it's more complicated than that: the web democratized *read-only* distributed systems, but read-write distributed systems never really got simplified every attempt i've seen at vb-for-the-web hasn't really stuck for…
Visual Basic IDE (1991) revolutionized programming. It democratized it, until JS-based web frameworks un-democratized it two decades later. - Visual designer (no code needed) - BASIC (no coder needed) - Fast (no expensive computer needed) - All-in-one (no toolchain or…
This kind of thing terrifies me. Might be time to start working on the iCloud backup script I keep putting off.
Why you should never ever trust devices that are tied to a vendor cloud: 20 years of digital life, gone in an Instant, thanks to #Apple hey.paris/posts/appleid/
Wow — Jolla pre-sold 5000 phones in a week. €2.5M committed. Marketing budget: €2,500. That is the power of the Community! One week ago: does anyone want a European phone? Seems Europeans do 🇪🇺❤️Jolla Next unlock at 10K: The Other Half. jolla.com/jolla-phone
Quite interesting, if you are interested in this sort of thing.
🚨BREAKING: @Solanamobile says it is expanding beyond its own devices, working with FXTech, MediaTek, and Trustonic to integrate the Solana Mobile stack at the chipset level for andriod devices. MediaTek ships roughly 46-50% of all Android devices globally.
This is a very fair point.
You used to be able to just create a Native GUI App in 10 seconds. No Electron, no Game Engines, no Web frameworks. Just a lean fast .EXE produced in seconds. Works on any Windows machine WITHOUT Internet connection. Software Development is actually going backwards.
Today, the trilogue negotiations start. Stop Chat Control.
Slop no more!
Neural Merge // [Neuralink] Lost Cycle of Humanity 01 PROXIMA GAMMA, 930,000 BCE.
Five new Mistral models today, but the one I'm most excited about is this tiny 3B model that has vision support and can run entirely in a browser!
NEW: @MistralAI releases Mistral 3, a family of multimodal models, including three start-of-the-art dense models (3B, 8B, and 14B) and Mistral Large 3 (675B, 41B active). All Apache 2.0! 🤗 Surprisingly, the 3B is small enough to run 100% locally in your browser on WebGPU! 🤯
Mistral 3 released! AI made in Europe
Introducing the Mistral 3 family of models: Frontier intelligence at all sizes. Apache 2.0. Details in 🧵
KDE Plasma 6.8 Will Go Wayland-Exclusive In Dropping X11 Session Support Plasma X11 session support ending in early 2027. phoronix.com/news/KDE-Plasm…
An important victory – but we still need to stop Chat Control. The Council of Ministers in the EU has, after three years, now reached a common position on Chat Control. The requirement for mandatory scanning (including end-to-end encrypted messaging services) has been removed,…
Love seeing all these new beautiful workstations that Omarchy users are sharing on the Discord 😍
If you walked through a Best Buy a decade ago and today, there isn't actually much difference in tech The iPhones still look the same, the drones are about the same, the flat screen TVs are a bit bigger But there is no OH WOW! technology for sale that didn't exist 10yrs ago
I am very impressed by the detail in these responses.
RISC-V is an instruction set (ISA). It does not imply the CPU or the rest of the SoC is open. Most RISC-V products are closed source. There isn't a capable enough RISC-V SoC available. Pixels use a RISC-V secure element based on a fork of their open source OpenTitan project.
This is one of my favorite features of @SimpleXChat , when you select a link it's as easy to open a clean link as the one with tracking. I have seen some links break though, but if that happens, easy enough to go back and open the full link.
What's up with the ? in Share links from social media? Fun fact: If you remove everything after the ? in links that you share, you'll help keep people in your groups from being associated with you and each another, which reduces privacy. Read more here: activistchecklist.org/links/
activistchecklist.org
Why we need to remove everything after the '?' in links | Digital Security Checklists for Activists
Plain language steps for digital security, because protecting yourself helps keep your whole community safer. Built by activists, for activists with field-tested, community-verified guides.
I read the TDD book years ago, and my main thought on it was "their money class design is terrible"! Test-Driven: Coding, yes; Design, no.
Ten or fifteen years ago, test-driven development was considered a near requirement for serious developers. I don't see it discussed nearly as much these days. Everyone recognizes the value of tests, but the "test first" evangelism is almost completely gone.
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