Links by Friday 019 - Home Cooked Apps
On my desktop, I'm running Debian Bookworm after being frustrated with how slow Windows 10 runs on my 8 year old laptop. Prior to running Debian I was on Arch Linux. I'm glad I'm no longer on the bleeding edge with all this xz Utils drama.
This week, what do you call someone who works on the web making websites? We also explore what Home Cooked Apps are. I hope you enjoy it.
Ideal Blogging CMS
My ideal blogging CMS would treat every new entry as a highly portable text blob/object that I can optionally do lots of stuff with.
I think Dave Winer has been living this life for some time now. He also outlines other features an ideal blogging CMS must have including activityPub.
Ideas for my dream blogging CMS
Ever since I changed over from Wordpress to Ghost to power this site, I've gotten emails and replies asking me if Ghost is really good and worth making the jump from any other blogging engines. My answer is this: it's currently the least bad one out there, but it is
Frontend Identity Crisis
Just what is your title? These days it varies depending on the nomenclature used in your company.
This article tries to resolve the identity crisis for people who work on the web.
Front-end development’s identity crisis - Elly Loel
I’m not a “\full-stack developer”, regardless of what my last job title says
Finishing Side Projects
I discovered Blake Watson from his appearance on shoptalkshow.
My biggest take away from this article is to add one new thing you want to learn, to the project you're working on. This way you're not overwhelmed trying to understand many concepts at once.
blakewatson.com – Finishing side projects
Side projects are one of the most fun things about web development. Here I discuss various tips and tricks for getting side projects over the finish line.
Home Cooked Apps
The idea of home cooked apps are simple apps that solve your particular problems without getting ambitious. I am a new fan of this concept.
An app can be a home-cooked meal
I made a messaging app for my family and my family only.
Opensource Quality Institute
a whole lot of Open-Source software is on the undermaintained-to-neglected axis, because there’s no business case for paying people to take care of it. Which is a problem, because there is a strong business case for paying people to attack it.
Tim Bray proposes an Open Source Quality Institute to improve the quality of critical open source software following the xz Utils backdoor:
I propose the formation of one or more “Open Source Quality Institutes”. An OSQI is a public-sector organization that employs software engineers. Its mission would be to improve the quality, and especially safety, of popular Open-Source software.
ongoing by Tim Bray · OSQI
That's it, see you next time.