markjgsmith

🚀 New Post: Text template rendering should be standard in all operating systems - Thinking about how one would implement a system wide template rendering for text feature. markjgsmith.com #

Run a macOS VM on Apple silicon from a double-click with Vimy - Seems like quite a classic mac style app, minimal functionality but lots of deceloper usefulness. Also some interesting discussion about developer environment setup on this hacker news thread. There doesn't appear to be a standard way of doing things and with so many bits and pieces these says, it's getting ever more complicated to do safely. eclecticlight.co #

Nix - Reproducible builds and deployments - I've been noticing folks mention nix more and more. The example videos are pretty interesting. Seems like it could be a useful tool fir setting up dev environments, especially if you have to run many of these in parallel. nixos.org #

Don’t Build A General Purpose API To Power Your Own Front End - Quite opinionated piece that proposes a different way to build smaller scale website + API deployments. It's a way to side step a lot of complexity. As with most things, it's a trade off, but I think the author makes some good points which are at least worth considering. max.engineer #

We Need Deep News - Doc Searls known for his involvement in reporting on the early open source movement, has been covering the changing landscape of the news and radio sector. He's got a longer view perspective which is a good thing because we technologists have a tendency to build things that don't solve the fundamental problems. doc.searls.com #