Some reasons to reconsider full Typescript for everything. A lot of people are still rah rah about Typescript: https://css-tricks.com/the-relevance-of-typescript-in-2022/ I find that type errors are a very small percentage of errors that need to be fixed. When they are made in Javascript, the problem is nearly always obvious and fast…

A universal model for referring to assets: Universal Resource Assets: The URA — Bringing flexible, comprehensive structure to asset URIs. Includes versioning, branches, relative URIs, and attachments. Standard representations as JSON, directory, and ZIP-based .ura. URA: assets as a first class Internet object. Asset schemes: yb:// yd:// tldr: A URI…

Abstract Just after Executive Summaries went out of style, the rise of the originally snarky & dismissive but now often acceptably self-deprecating tl;dr has taken over, with a range of possible shades of emotional meaning. Which emotional meaning is intended may often be ambiguous, especially between job function, organizational, and national…

Very well threaded & put! Increases my motivation to create an open alternative messaging / communication / publishing system that is resistant to a lot of the problems here.

ChatGPT et al: One of several singularities coming — probably the biggest & most important. We are at The Singularity, at least on the AI & AI-enabled front: The best definition I’ve seen for the Singularity is this: It is the point at which people from before the singularity could…

I totally agree. Thanks for writing this.

Symmetric & asymmetric cryptography primer Symmetric encryption, using the same key to encrypt & decrypt, is nearly always used on anything beyond very small amounts of data because it is fast. The problem is sharing & updating the key securely. This can be done, but requires coordination & an unbroken security…

Your application might need windowed signaling to remain efficient, cost-optimized, and avoid crashes in parts of your system. Many developers are unaware of the possible need for windowing protocols, AKA sliding window protocols, at the application, messaging, and API levels, even if they understand that they are used in a…

On the incremental reinvention of programming languages, web browsers, operating systems, analysis & visualization Software Configuration & Scripting Hard Coded -> Configuration -> Rules Engine -> DSL -> Hard Coded — Mike Hadlow While Mike Hadlow’s Configuration Complexity Clock model for scripting & configuration is instructive and often accurate, I sometimes see similar situations…