Technology optimism hour - macwright.com
À propos d'Effect :
This is an era of supply-chain risk and I think there is, and should be, a swing away from the tiny module ecosystems in NPM. Software that's composed of hundreds of little modules from hundreds of authors is a lovely idea that doesn't work with malicious actors. The swing is toward larger, buttoned-up libraries, and Effect is really well-positioned for that. It has type validation, observability, state management, fancy data types, and lots of functional programming helpers all under one roof, in one package that's pretty well-maintained and heavily tested.
It's ready for a very uncertain world where you have to validate and be careful about everything. But at the same time, it's fun to use, if you're that kind of person, which I am.
Je n'ai pas encore compris ce qu'était Effect, le "Reliable Typescript". À voir...
There's a big gap between a cool tech demo and a user-friendly popular service, and both of these have bridged it. It's exciting, and shows that you don't have to accept a bad set of tradeoffs to make tech that's both principled and popular.
Une pointe d'optimisme sur les réseaux sociaux ne fait pas de mal. Espérons que les régulateurs finissent par arriver à mettre un terme à la domination totale des Réseaux Sociaux prédateurs.
I want to just celebrate the end of a technology: SMS. It's so good that people don't use SMS anymore: it was needlessly expensive and extremely insecure. My texts with friends are almost exclusively on Signal & iMessage, and occasionally WhatsApp.
Now, WhatsApp is a mixed bag and nothing's perfect, but it's cool that the secure options recommended by the EFF and other sources are also popular options that people use every day. That's also pretty important from a privacy standard: having Signal installed on your phone is normal because it has a wide userbase, but the same would not be true if it was only used by people attending protests and being wary of government surveillance.
Je reste sur l'idée qu'un réseau non dépendant d'un opérateur n'est pas nécessairement une mauvaise chose. L'interopérabilité entre applications serait aussi une bonne option (même probablement meilleure.)
Hardware update cycles are slowing People are hanging on to their phones and computers for longer
Bonne nouvelle en effet.
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