Reda Lemeden @kaishin@widegamut.club

✏️ New essay: "We Need Chrome No More"

https://redalemeden.com/blog/2019/we-need-chrome-no-more

✏️ New Year, New Blog, New Design

https://redalemeden.com/blog/2019/new-year-new-blog-new-design

I’m back to in-depth technical writing, and I couldn’t be happier about it. Stay tuned 😉

I’ve been checking birdsite only once a week and I’ve never felt better. I will still keep the account for the extra follower reach but updates will be few and far in-between.

I’m really done with this app. Too many trinkets, crashes at every turn, and jank everywhere.

I appreciate the effort the developer is putting into it, but I think they are focusing on the wrong aspects.

I’m not going to WWDC this year. I can’t justify the cost anymore. There are other smaller events and communities that are far more valuable for me to part of right now.

@tonyarnold It was always buggy for me. I wish it was open-source so I could send some PRs.

"We value your privacy." No you don't.

If you did you wouldn't be interrupting my task to ask me whether I want to share my browser fingerprint with +20 advertising networks.

Digging the new WWDC art style!

Ever wondered why mainstream social media platforms offer a much worse UX to guest visitors compared to logged in ones? (Medium, Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, etc.)

It’s because they no longer rely on good UX to attract new users. Their massive size and the network effect that comes with that is the only mean of acquisition they rely on.

“We Need Chrome No More” is now translated to French by the nice folks over at @Framasoft “Nous devons nous dépasser de Chrome”

https://framablog.org/2019/03/07/nous-devons-nous-passer-de-chrome/

Between reading HN comments on the piece I published earlier and browsing the new Pokémon game memes, I'm keeping busy this evening.

✏️ New essay: "We Need Chrome No More"

https://redalemeden.com/blog/2019/we-need-chrome-no-more

I have 150 times more followers on 🐦 than 🐘 but I still feel better around here. Having more control of how your data is used and what you see on your timeline is priceless.

The face when you spend an entire evening debugging functional-reactive code on a new macOS project, only to realize that all network requests were failing due to ATS and sandboxing entitlements.

Developers writing technical pieces on Medium, you are doing your readers a disservice.

You have the skills and know-how to self-host your work, complete with syntax highlighting, an RSS feed, and total control of your own data.

One toot #Anime Review: The Promised Neverland (still airing) is a masterpiece in every aspect. Story, character development, animation, and voice acting. Must watch, even if you’re not into anime specifically.

In one single evening/project, I jumped from Vapor, to Vue.js, to AppKit.

The moral of the story is that writing client code on the browser still sucks due to things like cross-origin policies, JS dependency hell, and poorly developed/non-existent type systems.

✏️ New Year, New Blog, New Design

https://redalemeden.com/blog/2019/new-year-new-blog-new-design