>I'd like to know how others think about the hypothesis of the pandemic causing the next evolution? With the proliferation of habit trackers and productivity tools. What's begun is focusing less on the spiritual and more on actions.
I have also had thoughts about this. I do think that having time to themselves made some humans (and perhaps humanity as a whole) more reflective.
But also I dont think it's sustainable. Already, most offices have been pushing workers to return. We are sliding back into the old ways.
And people no longer have as much time to reflect, to be thoughtful.
>For my own journal I have chosen to capture more objective facts e.g. the actions in my day-to-day life. And place less effort on recording more subjective reactions like my mood.
I have some reservations about this.
Our moods and feelings tell us a lot about ourselves, things that we are not conscious of.
And writing about these subtle moods and feelings helps me be more conginizant of those things.
It’s a subtle aspect of moods and emotions that we are not privileged to know their impetuses. Yet, to learn them can be as simple as asking the subconscious of this, and this is a crucial function of free writing.
The funniest thing is that to compile Rust, enabling various compiler features (like borrow checker etc), the code has to be transmuted into non-mutable one Single Static Assignment form :V
And in the functional world, Lean 4 achieves language level support for local mutation, early return, etc. in the same way, by converting it into non-mutating code:
Gotta hand it to The Browser Company for doing so much for Swift lang.
Though I haven't used Swift in production I have enjoyed its ergonomics in my tinkerings with it. So I'd be so glad if Swift is able to break out of its niche into broader usage.
WinRT was abandoned by Microsoft. They said the new hotness is now WinUI 3.
Well that was until late 2023. Then they realized nobody was writing pure Windows UI code in WinUI 3. (Probably because people were still playing catch up). So they have now have unofficially mothballed WinUI 3 and the new hotness is now MAUI - cross-platform UI! - in 2024. (But no Linux support ho-ho)
I hope Microsoft would settle for one UI library instead of pushing a new one every five years. WinUI 3 is their most recent invention. Application developers can't keep up with the changing standards.
With all the mismanagement around WinRT, only the Windows team themselves and companies with sunken cost into UWP looking into a migration path, still care about WinUI 3.
Look no further than the Github repos for the general sentiment.
A properly motivated Apple would have been pushing cross platform Swift/SwiftUI and launched an App Store on both Android and Windows.
Imagine how many developers would just release to the App Store and re-release that on Android/etc to not need two codebase, and Apple would expand their 30% cut massively.
A lot of Android users would get apps from Apple’s store due to vetting/generally higher investment in App Store apps from major companies.
Nope - that would be a massive undertaking. Someone tried reimplementing SwiftUI but it was abandoned quickly after realising how much work it would entail: https://github.com/Cosmo/OpenSwiftUI
* 04-AntiForgeryToken would not provide any actual protection against CSRF (there are a few ways to do it, but all at minimum require 1) the token to be generated by the server and 2) a way for the server to compare against a known good value, either from its session DB or by "double-submitting" the token [0]).
* 18-SecureWebStorage encrypts the value without including an authentication tag, meaning it can likely be fully decrypted or modified by the user (lookup a Vaudenay attack or try out https://cryptopals.com/ if you're curious there)
Those are the ones I have specific experience with and looked at first, so maybe the more frontend-oriented examples are better?
