Is Electron That Bad?(macstories.net) I’ve been thinking about this video by Theo Browne for the past few days, especially in the aftermath of my story about working on the iPad and realizing its best apps are actually web apps.
Things I learned about software and startups by playing video games(ghost.io) In 2005, Steve Jobs told the graduating class of Stanford a now-famous story about connecting the dots - a story about the calligraphy courses he took in his college years, which later influenced the industry-leading digital fonts that shipped with the Macintosh.
How I set up new MacBooks(catalins.tech) I recently got a new MacBook and procrastinated setting it up for a few days. Installing apps individually and configuring your machine manually feels like a huge chore.
What If We Could Rebuild Kafka from Scratch?(morling.dev) The last few days I spent some time digging into the recently announced KIP-1150 ("Diskless Kafka"), as well AutoMQ’s Kafka fork, tightly integrating Apache Kafka and object storage, such as S3. Following the example set by WarpStream, these projects aim to substantially improve the experience of using Kafka in cloud environments, providing better elasticity, drastically reducing cost, and paving the way towards native lakehouse integration.
Open Sourcing 30 Sandboxes(antonz.org) I'm a big fan of interactive playgrounds. So today I'm open sourcing 30+ sandboxes — from programming languages to databases to networking and CLI tools. You can use them to experiment locally, or embed interactive examples in your writing like this:
Instant SQL for results as you type in DuckDB UI(motherduck.com) Today, we’re releasing Instant SQL, a new way to write SQL that updates your result set as you type to expedite query building and debugging – all with zero-latency, no run button required. Instant SQL is now available in Preview in MotherDuck and the DuckDB Local UI.