Utilities
DacheQL
DacheQL is a lightweight caching tool for GraphQL. I loved their Demo gif.
Vandan Desai
Product Management. Builder. Photographer. I find happiness in backlogs & deadlines, jubilation in code and ecstasy behind a camera lens. I pursue the ephemeral and the permanent all around the world.
Stuff
Now Even Science Grants Must Bow to ‘Equity and Inclusion’
Lawrence Krauss writing for WSJ: Starting in fiscal 2023, which began Oct. 1, every proposal responding to a solicitation from the Office of Science is required to include a PIER plan, which stands for Promoting Inclusive and Equitable Research, to “describe the activities and strategies of the applicant to promote
Product
Apple is now gonna be a Bank
Will Feuer at WSJ: Once users set up their savings account through the Apple Card, future rewards from the card, called Daily Cash, can be deposited automatically into the savings account, Apple said. Users can also add their Daily Cash rewards to an Apple Cash card, which is a digital
Product
Google says Matter is still set to fix the biggest smart home frustrations
Jennifer Pattinson Tuohy writing for The Verge: We’ve committed to our new Nest Thermostat being on Matter, and we are still evaluating if the learning thermostat can handle Matter. It does have Thread. But just because it has Thread doesn’t mean we can run Matter on it. So,
Product
Meta’s VR announcement at Connect 2022
Lipstick on a pig by Nick Heer: Zuckerberg preemptively responded to criticisms like these by reminding everyone that this category is just getting started. But that is a bit of misdirection. Oculus, the virtual reality hardware company Meta bought, was founded in 2012; Meta bought it in 2014. On a
Photography
Mt. Rainer still eludes me
I have been to Washington state several time and I still haven’t been able to photograph or see Mt. Rainer.
Product
Instagram is dead
What a wonderful piece of writing by Om Malik: It was a wonderful gathering place for photographers to showcase their work and build an audience. Not a day goes by when some photographer friend or the other bemoans how Instagram is no longer a place for photography. When I started
Stuff
Carbon, a new programming language from Google, aims to be C++ successor
Existing modern languages already provide an excellent developer experience: Go, Swift, Kotlin, Rust, and many more. Developers that can use one of these existing languages should. Unfortunately, the designs of these languages present significant barriers to adoption and migration from C++. These barriers range from changes in the idiomatic design
Stuff
Bun
Kind of excited about this project and its prospects: Bun is a modern JavaScript runtime like Node or Deno. It was built from scratch to focus on three main things: Start fast (it has the edge in mind). New levels of performance (extending JavaScriptCore, the engine). I'm most
Product
Apple Apps enterprise ready?
Apple announced new features for their messaging platform. While all of us can enjoy editing and unending the messages and complain that Twitter can't get a simple editing feature; there is something else that no one has mentioned yet. Even Apple Mail now boasts about Unsend Mail, Schedule
Photography
Happy Sweet 16 Kajol!
Happy Sweet 16 Kajol!
Utilities
IconFactory's WorldWideWeb
I absolutely love IconFactory's apps. I use at least 2 or 3 of them on almost a daily basis. Iconfactory's developer Craig Hockenberry announced a new app recently and it home for me. The Mac and Web have a long history together. From the very beginning,