Tuesday 30th July, 2019 #
- Reasons why using bash set -e is considered bad by a lot of people, there is an allegory that attempts to illustrate the problem - nevertheless some people still find set -e useful
- The Hottest Phones for the Next Billion Users Aren’t Smartphones - I’d love to test out linkblog on some of the phones mentioned in this article, probably the pages would render quite fast since it’s only text, not sure if bookmarklet would work to make posting links easier, in any case I would be so incredibly happy if I ever had a customer that was a mango, avocado and lychee street vendor sharing links to Hindi music and movies on YouTube
- How the west got china's social credit system wrong - it’s interesting that one of the big surprises to the officials implementing the system was the attention that the system has gotten from the west, how long until the people setting the system up realise they too could fall into one of the cracks and maybe never get out? On the other hand if they don’t build it then the people currently stuck in the cracks will eventually so they sort of have to - might be a better idea to get people out of the cracks first, otherwise the competing systems will ensure people in cracks stay in cracks, and eventually everyone will be stuck in a crack
- Influencers are unhappy that Instagram is getting rid of likes - there are no likes on Linkblog :)
- GitHub confirms it has blocked developers in Iran, Syria, Cuba, North Korea and Crimea - Having to be concerned about government sanctions seems like it shouldn’t need to be a factor that developers should have to be concerned about, self hosting just got more attractive