ABEND dump #20
Browsers, toy projects, and grug wisdom.
Welcome to the ABEND dump!
If you wanna know what is the "ABEND dump", I've got you covered.
It's been some time since the last ABEND dump. Life is keeping me busy and I haven't been reading that much lately and I'm also avoiding social media -- I can't digest so many bad news all the time -- but, you know, eventually interesting stuff pops up.
Andreas Kling's Keynote Presentation on the Ladybird Browser
Browsers have become the new OS of modern era. But things don't necessarily are all better than before. Chrom(e|ium) became bloated. Firefox is moving away from its privacy roots. Brave and Opera are pretty much Chromium doppelgängers, plus others. What else?
Go, Ladybird! I'm rooting for you.
Writing Toy Software Is A Joy
Oh, wow! So many cool ideas to implement. If I wasn't invested in Tsonnet at the moment, I'd definitely dive into one of these ideas. I can't wait to write my own shell or GBA emulator -- what's your favorite?
The Grug Brained Developer
I read this very humorous web page that talks about software engineering, complexity, traps, beliefs, and best (and sometimes not so good) practices.
Don't let the "grug" style of writing turn you away. There's good advice in there.
MacOS is getting native support for containers
MacOS containerization is available as an open source project in GitHub.
Finally containers will have better support in MacOS. It's about time!
NASA plans to stream rocket launches on Netflix starting this summer
Ok, you can already watch NASA streams from the website, but having it on Netflix is a game changer, I think. This is how this sort of stuff becomes mainstream, don't you think? Also, after US government slashing budgets left and right, this is a pretty smart move to diversify where the funds come from.