A Cup Of Matcha 14

published on 2023-06-27

Last week I went to a local one-day conference (Manchester Digital) which I think is the first one I’ve attended since the pandemic. A bit of a strain psychologically (and I managed to scald my hands and soak my trousers with hot water in the first 5 minutes) but a good experience. Which is fortunate because I’ve got at least two more conferences coming up in the next few weeks.

My old conference-attending iPad is on its last legs and getting a replacement delayed this weekly link update.

No proper Identity Management links this week, somehow.

• Apple is plotting the death of the password This isn’t a good article - it implies that Apple’s Passkeys will work with password-based sites, which isn’t what replacing passwords means. Also, passwords will never die.

OTOH I’ve collected lots of project management themed links:

• The Dark Side of Open Source The downsides of developing or contributing to Open Source Software
• Finish your projects I need to get a LOT better at finishing projects
• Imaginary Problems Are the Root of Bad Software I’m convinced most of Self Soveriegn Identity movement is about solving imaginary problems
• awesome-cto Lots of CTO (Chief Technology Officer) links
• IKEA-Oriented Development Why IKEA hates air (and other IKEA info) as analogies for good software development
• From Technical Debt to Technical Health with HealthCheck A long, detailed look at Technical Debt
• Prioritising effectively and getting work done as managers Not one of my strong points

Webmentions aren’t a new standard but I’ve been wondering if they can be used for other things (SAML-related things…)

• Webmention The Webmention spec
• libmention A Webmention library for Elixir that’s recently been released
• Webmentions on a static site with GitHub Actions Using a Webmentions proxy service and Github actions to gather mentions for a static site
• Webmention.io A Webmentions proxy/API service

A few general web and software development links:

• The modern way of serving images There’s more than just the old img tag now
• sub.rehab A directory of Lemmy services replacing or extendeding parts of Reddit, now that Reddit is being Musked to death
• Introducing phx_gen_solid Generators to create new SOLID-style modules for Phoenix apps
• Beautiful animated charts for LiveView with ECharts Charts, LiveView
• Retroactive Run old MacOS software on recent versions of MacOS (doesn’t help if jumping to ARM/Mn) though
• Kill your Phoenix Context Constructive criticism of “context” modules in Phoenix
• Chat2DB Uh Oh. AliBaba have released an OSS SQL app that can use “AI” to build queries out of English or Chinese prompts
• pgMagic Uh oh again: this is a different, commercial product that does the same.
• PG Easy Replicate Ruby app to make setting up replication between postgresql instances easier
• Moderation in a Public Commons BlueSky proposals for improving moderation (technically)
• Bryntum Mostly linked to because the business model of licensing individual JS/HTML components is interesting
• Intro to Propshaft Propshaft is another way to build Rails assets
• Tips for writing Rails tasks with Thor instead of Rake Introduction to using Thor, and alternative to Rake, which is an alternative to Make
• Create and Open A Modal in Phoenix 1.7 Modal dialog boxes in LiveView
• Unexpected downsides of UUID keys in PostgreSQL I usually use UUID IDs so this was informative
• try A shell command to run other commands and then choose to apply or rollback the changes they make - very clever
• DevPod I am fascinated and baffled by this and need to put aside some time to try it
• The gTLDs’ New Clothes Musings about DNS domains
• Monitoring is a Pain Constructive criticism of various monitoring approaches
• mailpit: A local SMTP service to collect and view email from your apps during development
• Command Line Applications in Rust An (old) little book on writing commandline apps in Rust
• A (recent) list of good libraries and approaches for writing commandline apps in Rust

Finally, some of the less serious things I’ve found

• Vulnerabilities in smart pet feeders Actually quite serious, and astonishing that these mistakes can be made in 2023
• Comic Mono A relation of Comic Sans specially made for programming with
• The MiniMit Wi-Fi Modem A wifi modem and services to bring old French Minitel terminals back to life (I have something similar for my Mac Plus)

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Pete Birkinshaw