You really, truly, honestly don’t need a Virtual DOM. Srsly.

This is an interesting discussion from last year about Tagged Template String Literals (TTSL? I’m coining it right here) versus Virtual DOM systems (React, Vuejs etc).

While the focus of the discussion is on the (then recent) lit-html announcement, Andrea Giammarchi’s hyperHtml is also given the prominence it deserves. Andrea, an independent developer, invented the technique and released his library 6 months earlier than Google.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCHZJy2n8Qs&lc=UgyBaGjg7EyZsNHMmBZ4AaABAg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCHZJy2n8Qs&lc=UgyBaGjg7EyZsNHMmBZ4AaABAg

“Google confirmed that the service only applies to people who are logged in to one of its accounts and have not opted out of ad tracking.”

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-30/google-and-mastercard-cut-a-secret-ad-deal-to-track-retail-sales

The truth about autonomous vehicles is that they will never be good enough to drive on our roads until all humans have stopped driving.

Even with 100% automatic traffic there will still be car accidents, collisions and traffic jams. Just like in TCP/IP.

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/waymos-big-ambitions-slowed-by-tech-trouble

The Multibrella model.

Originally shared by Peter da Silva

Alleged shenanigans at Tesla. The posts are screen shots of a site that looks like it’s emulating Plato, but… damn.

https://twitter.com/atomicthumbs/status/1032939617404645376

Blockchain is bad, actually.

https://medium.com/@kaistinchcombe/decentralized-and-trustless-crypto-paradise-is-actually-a-medieval-hellhole-c1ca122efdec

This is pretty fucking great.

https://twitter.com/thingswork/status/1030177745697996800?s=12

At what point do we admit that Google is just as unethical as Facebook (just more sneaky and competent)?

Originally shared by mathew murphy

https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/google-clarifies-tracks-users-pause-location-history-57226091

Doing a brownbag at Nab Connect on git management.