Notices by Helge Heß (helge@mastodon.social)

@inthehands I'm not sure it is fuzzy, they seem almost polar opposites to me.
a) is people actually believing the thing will enhance productivity, by say 8.5%. (might be, unsure myself)
b) is people already knowing that this is *not* the case, but that unrelated (cough) things break the economy and blaming AI is a very convenient hate target.

@inthehands tbh I can’t really see a loosing scenario for Amazon here, even if the US market collapses. Yes maybe they shrink down in advance, but they still have a decent almost monopoly.

@inthehands I think the AI part may be a pretty weird combination of:
- some managers actually drank the cool aid
but also:
- blame it on the AI

@inthehands My idea was more that they don’t actually have to distract investors by AI or whatever, that part seems a little off. If times get worse the investor pitch would still be: we are the ones who own the market, whatever size.

@ctietze @inthehands

Hungry, I’m going to eat a dozen of eggs today #food

I should have put a banana for scale alongside #food

@mattl They released that a few years ago, it is called "SwiftUI".

@fesshole A bug spray on a spider, gross!

> every object in Foundation and AppKit was delightfully crafted
Back when software was crafted and not just compiled ;-)
https://github.com/jeffreybergier/MathEdit

@joe NeXTstep 3.3 came with Foundation, just not in AppKit yet

@joe But yes, why stop at MRC when you can do NXZone’s instead!! @jeff

@joe @jeff Indeed! That worked surprisingly well.

I don't actually like Macs (i.e. the Apple stuff before OSX). I like NeXT's, and it's derivates likes iPhones, AppleTV's or ... modern Macs 🙂

#FOKS, this might be really cool. #KeyBase https://blog.foks.pub/posts/introducing/

@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 It's outdated and the GUI part never worked well.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`!