Now Even Science Grants Must Bow to ‘Equity and Inclusion’
Apple is now gonna be a Bank
Meta’s VR announcement at Connect 2022
Lipstick on a pig by Nick Heer:
Google says Matter is still set to fix the biggest smart home frustrations
Jennifer Pattinson Tuohy writing for The Verge:
Carbon, a new programming language from Google, aims to be C++ successor
Existing modern languages already provide an excellent developer experience: Go, Swift, Kotlin, Rust, and many more. Developers that can use one of these existing languages should. Unfortunately, the designs of these languages present significant barriers to adoption and migration from C++. These barriers range from changes in the idiomatic design of software to performance overhead.
Bun
Kind of excited about this project and its prospects:
Apple Apps enterprise ready?
Apple announced new features for their messaging platform. While all of us can enjoy editing and unending the messages and complain that Twitter can’t get a simple editing feature; there is something else that no one has mentioned yet.
Even Apple Mail now boasts about Unsend Mail, Schedule Mail and a better search.
IconFactory’s WorldWideWeb
I absolutely love IconFactory’s apps. I use at least 2 or 3 of them on almost a daily basis. Iconfactory’s developer Craig Hockenberry announced a new app recently and it home for me.
gqt
Off late I have been dealing with API at work and home, REST and GraphQL. Came across this fantastic utility today - gqt. It’s a simple GraphQL client, but runs in the terminal. Using this in Visual Studio Code’s Terminal is so helpful when you don’t have to switch windows while working.
Markdoc
Came across Markdoc today, made by Stripe.