Daily Shaarli

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February 23, 2023

React Is Holding Me Hostage

A bit of a rant, but even though React is well established at that point and here to stay (shake a tree and half a dozen React developers fall from it), it doesn't mean it can't be criticized. It does a good job at listing the main ergonomics problems React is suffering from. The funny part is towards the end, the envisioned solutions for another framework look eerily familiar to a Qt developer, it talks about signals and what looks like property changed notifications. :-)

AMD CEO: The Next Challenge Is Energy Efficiency - IEEE Spectrum
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Interesting position from AMD regarding the race on the next super computers. They're all being caught up by energy efficiency so it'll need to be addressed both at the processor architecture level but also at the software architecture level. How we design our computing tasks will matter more and more.

Social Media is a Major Cause of the Mental Illness Epidemic in Teen Girls. Here’s The Evidence.

Lengthy but thorough. The evidences are now getting much clearer. Admittedly, the most worrying bit I find is that getting off the social media wagon might not help the impacted people to get better... indeed they might still be isolated if everyone else is still trapped on social media.

Postgres Full Text Search vs the rest
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Yet another article about Postgres full test search features. This one has the advantage of giving us a glimpse about the other available options. Sometimes you want something typo resistant for instance.

We need to talk about your Github addiction
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Definitely agree with this, Github benefited from a powerful network effect and now a good chunk of important projects are "trapped" there. This can't be good long term.

Introducing Ambient 0.1

Looks like an interesting runtime. Seems to make it easy to create multiplayer 3D experiences. Maybe too easy to be true? I guess I need to find an excuse to test it.