China: “Remove all VPNs”
Apple: “Sure thing”

China: “…and podcast apps”
Apple: “Can do boss!”

China: “…and also hand over all iCloud data for our citizens”
Apple: “I mean why wouldn’t we? Here you go!”

EU: “Allow alternate app stores, and do it fairly”
Apple: “Ahhh hell no! This is so unfair you guys are bullies! Malware! Privacy! We have standards! Unlike you we care about our users!”

What are the parts of a URL?

The tool: https://url-parts.glitch.me

The article: https://web.dev/articles/url-parts

Excellent work by my colleague @samdutton

Why Stack Overflow is embracing Svelte

https://stackoverflow.blog/2023/10/31/why-stack-overflow-is-embracing-svelte/

Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://stackoverflow.blog/2023/10/31/why-stack-overflow-is-embracing-svelte/

#javascript #programming #svelte #webdev

Wrote a post about the Unity thing, on:

- Why this is a disaster even if the new terms don't sting you

- How it traps devs in our position

- Why walking it back could still (mostly) fix it

https://www.pentadact.com/2023-09-16-unitys-trap/

Somewhere between 'I can calculate the right answer' and 'too complicated, no idea' is the sweet spot of Gut Calls: juicy decisions you have to make on intuition.

New Design Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PNJZXnayk8&list=PLUtKzyIe0aB3jCqjOLE1FPyCt0Wks1R4X&index=13