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Compose Multiplatform is an interesting framework that can render to a web canvas, including full accessibility support.

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I'm curious, what does having control over the update process give you? Isn't it replacing one unauditable black box system for another? Are you concerned about a regression and do…

Google has two billion lines of proprietary code, conformant to their style guides and proprietary requirements. I can't imagine they'd poison their model with non-conformant third…

The English translation of the (Dutch) "strandbeest" is "beach animal".

Not all John Smiths are bad, promise.

The article suggest that it was neither. That rather it was an engineering decision: the product did not have staffing to be properly maintained, and rather than staff it up, it wa…

Google is no such place. I've worked in several product areas, and while there is no formal one-size-fits-all process, generally engineers build products specified by PM written PR…

For Firefox to succeed, it has to differentiate. There are two meaningful ways it does, or will do, in the near future: 1. Mobile extensions: that's a unique value prop 2. Fight fo…

There are build systems where this guidance isn't terribly valuable. With Bazel for example, you typically have build files in each directory, and a test target for each test class…

One of the newer things I've appreciated from guava is ListenableFuture to Kotlin suspend functions interop.

That's a fine argument to make, but the article didn't.

The article conflated ad selection and search query results.

Mozilla's office in SF, pictured in the article's first photo, is literally neighbor to Google's SF office, making that a particularly apt photo and headline pair.

We can assess the analogy on its merits, but random opinions are circulated in docs at Google all the time. From this article, 186,000 employees, therefore lots of opinions. This i…

I mean, I've worked in search, android, and c&c, and the above is pretty close to my experience in all three.

The way it's meant to work is tether acts as a market maker, always willing to buy and sell tokens at parity. Nobody would buy below that if they know tether is around. Tether, hav…

I wrote myself a Chrome extension that does this, using http://l/foo style links, and using Chrome's sync to share across devices. Works well enough but limited to desktops. Some l…

Looks like this was an actual bug, not deliberately removing a feature: https://twitter.com/dannysullivan/status/1560010093294489602 https://support.google.com/websearch/thread//15…

I've been using Stadia since day one. It's a really terrific execution of cloud gaming. It would be a real shame if it did get shut down. I hope the rumors are false.

Shopify CEO Tobias Lutke was a core Rails developer. He's tightly connected to the Ruby & Rails communities.

I'm Québécois from birth (Trois Rivières). I voted in the incredibly close '95 seperation referendum. In my view, separation or sovereignty would be bad for us. Separation is mainl…

I found the Schmidt suggestion surprising, but here it is, apparently made seriously, to change your name upon arriving at adulthood: https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB100014240527487…

The Arstechnica article Doctorow is linking to: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/04/shameful-insteon-loo...