React Native is getting a lot of bad publicity lately.

React Native is getting a lot of bad publicity lately. Not coincidentally it’s undergoing a complete rewrite. Its Android support is famously outmoded and terrible. A lot of companies got burned using it.

This is an opportunity for Flutter which is written in Google’s Dart language and from what I can tell it’s really nice to use. I’m also partial to Nativescript which also has great promise.

Aspects of AI:

Aspects of AI:

1. Sentience

2. Unemployment

3. Control

It has always been the third aspect of AI that constitutes the greatest threat to humanity but people always only want to talk about the first one.

Sentience remains science fiction but you are already undergoing a process of surveillance, profiling and subjugation by the ruling elite.

Unemployment through work replacement is real too but this holds within it the promise of liberation as well as disaster. The way forward is determined by whether we can defeat aspect 3.

Via Wayne Radinsky

The Brexit vote, like every other vote, was mainly about choosing the flavour of misrepresentation by the ruling…

The Brexit vote, like every other vote, was mainly about choosing the flavour of misrepresentation by the ruling elite.

A slim majority of Britons voted for the misrule to be conducted by the very worst people in Britain. This came as a bit of a surprise because they were expected to vote in favour of misrule by the very worst people in Europe.

Great to see this open source project getting some attention despite not having the backing of a giant corporation…

Great to see this open source project getting some attention despite not having the backing of a giant corporation like Facebook or Google. I’m a fan and (even more remarkably) a sponsor.

You don’t need no steenking Virtual Dom—or any framework junk actually—to do your single page application. Just use what JavaScript can already do out of the box, tagged template literals.

Originally shared by Ivan Pierre

Reactive w/o virtual DOM.