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Formerly, companies were picking popular and boring tech stacks for stability, continued maintenance, availability of software developers, etc. Well, companies can now throw those best practices out the window.
Flow is a Typescript alternative by Facebook. They've rewritten from OCaml in Rust, w/ a single engineer steering AI.
The cost of switching tech stacks becomes cheap, converging to zero and this is one trend that's changing the industry.
The new #Firefox design in "Project Nova" is good-looking.
In terms of features I want, desktop Firefox almost has it all for me, the only thing missing is the ability to install PWA apps (executable via OS launcher, in its own window) on macOS/Linux.
It's not hard to configure OpenCode or Pi to route grunt work to cheaper models. E.g., is GLM-5.2 too expensive? Pair it with DeepSeek v4 Flash.
Doesn't matter how good closed tools feel, as they are defective by design and limit your professional growth.
#OpenSource
RE: https://witter.cz/@matejcerny/116777155771993798
to reduce the extra 2MB that Scaladoc adds, I've created an sbt plugin sbt-salad-days
https://eed3si9n.com/reducing-scaladoc-file-size-with-sbt-salad-days/ #Scala
I can't blame them, they seem to be another victim of AI-driven slop, but this is bad nonetheless. Alternatives will surely emerge, but not ones that will decrease risk (e.g., supply-chain attacks). Internet is reconfiguring and it's mostly bad news.
https://central.sonatype.org/publish/maven-central-publishing-limits/
Sonatype's new limits for Maven Central have the potential to kill many #Scala libraries.
They discourage sub-projects, documentation, multiple targets (support for major Scala versions, or platforms, e.g., JVM, JS, Native), bug fix releases, or FOSS developed by individuals.
Jacob Wren
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