Notes, Articles, Quotes & Links

Beyond the typical Swift use case as application programming language for Apple’s platforms, there is little signal that Swift is a true contender for anything else, let alone for what Rust seems to be picked almost instantly. Each of the presumptions about Swift compound over time and make it less of an option for more varied use cases and less likely that someone has really shown the capabilities of Swift in production.

I don’t know why the concept of a Red Team isn’t known and applied on a wider basis. It’s a very powerful mode to harden your business and make it more resilient to changing market conditions. You rarely see the concept being applied outside of military, intelligence and security. Maybe I inspire a few to try.

I’ve recently thought a lot about our society’s relation to rules and even law. Somehow it became en vogue to err on the side of “if it’s not explicitly forbidden, it’s allowed, intention be damned”. So whenever I hear in a discussion, somebody mentioning “the intention of the rule or law” or “the spirit of the rule or law”, I listen carefully, because how they handle it, might tell more about the person and their trustworthiness than the discussed rule/law.

The kerfuffle around the Turbo project has again shown the toxic side of IT and left me confused as to why the announcement was controversial.

I played around with Bun and had way too much fun with it. It is probably one of the more exciting developments in JavaScript land and worth a look for non-JavaScript devs.

The OpenAI web crawler has been met with some controversy. The reaction was mostly to try to block it from accessing content, esp. content behind an ineffective paywall. Let's explore whether that is even needed.