Wednesday, August 11, 2021

Facebook engineers develop new open source time keeping appliance

 https://techcrunch.com/2021/08/11/facebook-engineers-develop-new-open-source-time-keeping-appliance/

Because NTP is old-fashioned. Everybody needs an atomic clock in their desktop. 

Cybernetically enhanced web apps

  https://svelte.dev/

Another JavaScript front-end. 

The best way to build web apps without code

 https://bubble.io/

Another no-code web app builder

Solutions for Digital Empowerment

 https://www.epik.com/

Yes, another domain registrar. 

You’ve got the ideas, we’ve got the domains.

 https://www.hover.com/

Another alternative domain registrar. 

Mastering Vim Language

 https://towardsaws.com/understanding-the-vim-language-b6ea858e9dcc

There's always more to Vim!! 

Sunday, August 1, 2021

6 Command Line Tools for Productive Programmers

 https://dev.to/adamgordonbell/6-command-line-tools-for-productive-programmers-433l

Representatives of the new generation of CLI Linux tools. I'm not sure about these, as they're mainly about bringing a GUI to the CLI. It's not the "unix way" of providing data that can be piped and transformed. 

The simplest way to create forms

 https://tally.so/

New SaaS drag-and-drop web form builder. Not sure about the business model, since it's free. 

No-Code Client Workflows

 https://beau.to/

New no-code workflow SaaS. Looks reasonably priced, we'll see.

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About WebRTC

 https://blog.openreplay.com/everything-you-ever-wanted-to-know-about-webrtc

New quasi-serverless browser communication APIs. 

Simplifying business in the creator economy

 https://www.lumanu.com/

New platform specifically for creators. We'll see where it goes.