Notices by Helge Heß (helge@mastodon.social)

@mattl Let's talk about your database design. Or not. Either way, I thought you might want to checkout Keycloak. It can do social logins and stuff and may be (or not) interesting in the context.

@mattl Why? It's outdated and the GUI part never worked well. The GNUstep Foundation (gstep-base) is really good and used in large scale projects, but the new Apple Swift Foundation is much better (for that language, only).
I don't think we need a refresh, but a new effort at a similar scale. Most alt-SwiftUI projects are done by individuals, GNUstep at least was quite a few people working together (10-20?).
I.e. the key part here is successfully forming a community.

The interesting things in the Swift space seem to be things like:
- Swift on Android
- SwiftCrossUI
- Swift on Wasm (though I still don't understand that)
- SwiftScript
(okay, I made up one of them, but nothing is Darwin related).

I'm going to watch the #WWDC because developing for the Apple platforms is an important part of my business! Hm, actually it isn't, really. What I actually do is Swift on Linux 🙂 I wish there was a conference for that, maybe I should go to the #FOSDEM again.

The funny thing is that the "GNUstep but for SwiftUI" would also make a ton of sense on iOS or macOS itself! Because you could actually debug and fix bugs in that SwiftUI. Imagine a working `List`!

I also have the gut feeling (in part due to SwiftCrossUI, which I didn't try yet) that we are getting closer to a "GNUstep but for SwiftUI". I.e. something that provides a similar experience to SwiftUI on other platforms (Linux/Android, Windows, Darwin itself?).
Half of GNUstep (Foundation) is already provided by Apple itself. I love the new cross platform version, it is *so* useful to me!

@mingistech Why is that fine and why is there any gatekeeping about it?

OK, so I just came up w/ the design for the NeXT Mac Pro, a Cube (ok, the original Cube idea is owned by someone else)!
As you may know, the original NeXT Cube had space for four whole motherboards. In practice I'm only aware that either one or two got used (two w/ a NeXTdimension gfx card, the setup I have).
But I think the original idea was that it would house 4 individual computers/board, connected by the Mach kernel (Mach ports!) to form a singular compute unit. #WWDC

I kinda hate how people are actually using MacBookPro's. If you are a photographer or scientist who is actually mobile, that's perfect, thumbs up.
But there are so many devs who just have them sitting clamshell, as a desktop 98.9% of them time. This is just an incredible waste of resources, in particular the awesome display which goes when the compute has to go. Not good.

Now transport that to the modern times. #AppleSilicon mainboards are fully integrated machines and can't really be modular in the traditional way.
But what if you'd have a machine that essentially houses 4 MacBook Pro's w/ Mx Extreme's! The M5 is released? Don't throw away your computer, just upgrade one, or all of your blades w/ the new one. Kinda like you replace the drives in your Synology if capacity suffers.

It is interesting how many people still live in the old FOSS world. When meanwhile all the rules changed and code got and gets stolen at an industrial scale. Didn't you realise yet that your particular license doesn't matter anymore?
I don't really think this will kill FOSS, due to the inherent advantages regardless, but everything done is now essentially public domain, no attribution required.
(unless some hero stands up and does proper lawsuits)

@whitequark Looks like Swift, except in Swift, you rather link a 6MB big argument-parser lib that statically types out all the possible options 🙈
(but really, the `match` looks like how Swift's `switch` works)

This is a good book if you want to do Unixy things on Unixy platforms, from simple concepts like how pipes work to more advanced process control or TTY's: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Programming_in_the_Unix_Environment

And alongside this one is great for network/socket stuff, equally good: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNIX_Network_Programming

At least skim over those before touching Unix/Posix API's. I'm not really shocked how little people know about very basic things like pipes and how they work, but it's a problem those books can potentially fix 🙂

@mattl https://www.blender.org maybe? https://capnproto.org

@obrhoff reicht doch bisher nicht? also Jamaica?

@fmarini I’m east German, I’m not going to vote for the SED. #depol

@obrhoff klingt gefährlich

Berlin

@obrhoff @frederik Ich verwende kein Insta aber ich vermute mal du hättest das Produkt gegebenenfalls auch anders gefunden und gekauft.
Oder hat bei dir die Insta Werbung eine direkt Conversion ausgelöst?

@obrhoff No, I’ve played with that for years and it never made any meaningful difference.
I think for Indies specifically themselves are the best promotion.