we wanted flying cars, instead we got life-saving vaccines

We may be at a fork in the history of the web. Desktop-like webapp will switch away from the DOM. The perspective is a new ecosystem. medium.com/young-coder/th…

It’s almost impossible to predict the future. But it’s also unnecessary, because *most people are living in the past*. All you have to do is see the present before everyone else does.

Paris is investing £225m to transform the iconic but car-choked Champs-Élysées boulevard into an “extraordinary garden.” Among other things, 140K on-street parking spaces will be removed. Bold city-building leadership from Anne Hidalgo & team. Via The B1M

First ride with PubliBike Velospot ✅

„the current division of database + sql + orm + application-layer is a historical accident and can be dramatically simplified.“

Looking over old articles, in the 1990s, the major worry was the piracy enabled by digital copies, and how creators would never recover from this. But I have not heard piracy mentioned in years. Some worries today will also evaporate.

You know, there are good reasons to run Kafka on-prem. And so many bad ones. Don't be like this guy. youtube.com/watch?v=AXxr0p…

Attention cloud native community! Our call for contributions to the Swiss Cloud Native Day #swisscnd on September 13 and 14, 2022 is now open! 👉 forms.gle/eger7XTBvdG372… 👈 We can't wait to review your awesome submissions!

A blog serie on the software used at SpaceX - interesting insights about software reliability in this environment. stackoverflow.blog/tag/software-i…

#gregorslaw now has its own page: architectelevator.com/gregors-law/

Strong agree with this short thread calling for industrial literacy as a part of the high school curriculum. More on industrial literacy: rootsofprogress.org/industrial-lit… The high school course I created for this purpose: progressstudies.school

Isochrones 😍 ! This map shows you how far a 5h train ride will take you, departing from any city in Europe. chronotrains-eu.vercel.app Inspired by Direkt Bahn Guru by Julius Tens.

This is an exciting thread by a guy who's taken existing AI tools and used them all together to help him and his kids create a sellable game. Gives a hint of how AI can partner with creators. x.com/nabeel/status/…

Time zone handling won’t get simpler in the future, I guess. nbcnews.com/science/space/… /cc Marc R. Hoffmann

The Uphill Conf today was awesome - lots of energy in the rapidly evolving field of generative AI.