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[1] https://www.petsymposium.org/2018/files/papers/issue3/popets... [2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecash
Ben here, one of the co-chairs for the WebView CG. Super chuffed to see this pop up on hackernews today!
For a little context, our group is currently focusing our efforts this year on improving WebView compatibility data. The project is still very young and we’ll keep chipping away at it but please feel free to reach out and engage! You can find the repository here: https://github.com/WebView-CG/Compatibility-Data-Project/tre...
If you’re interested in joining in on the broader community discussions, you can find our group here: https://www.w3.org/community/webview/
I’m currently working hard at keeping a new born alive but will be happy to answer any questions if I can a moment between diapers :)
I’m hoping to get back to everyone as soon as possible. I hope you can all appreciate that I’m a human being and this has been a lot!
In the mean time, I wanted to repost my last comment on the GitHub issue thread [1]:
Hey all, we plan to respond to your feedback but I want to be thorough which will take time and it’s the end of a Friday for me. We wanted to give a quick TL;DR:
- This is an early proposal that is subject to change based on feedback.
- The primary goal is to combat user tracking by giving websites a way to maintain anti-abuse protections for their sites without resorting to invasive fingerprinting.
- It’s also an explicit goal to ensure that user agents can browse the web without this proposal [2]
- The proposal doesn’t involve detecting or blocking extensions, so ad-blockers and accessibility tools are out of scope.
- This is not DRM - WEI does not lock down content
- I’m giving everyone a heads up that I’m limiting comments to contributors over the weekend so that I can try to take a breath away from GitHub. I will reopen them after the weekend
[1] https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/...
[2] https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/...
Just look at how successful football players were in getting a slice of the pie. I’d still consider that a dream job.
I’m at the age demographic where I see a lot of folk feeding into the hustle culture. While I think it’s important to keep the future in mind, I also want to recognise I’ve reached a pretty good point in my life and would like to do something that won’t improve my career in any way.
They also need to make candidates feel like they were tested using the same criteria as other candidates.
It’s very much early days though. I didn’t want to go near accessibility until I had standardised the rendering model somewhat.
It also waits to be seen if anyone actually wants to use this besides me.
It keeps running your render method and dynamically updates your client.
The first example documents this a bit better: https://gitlab.com/BenWiser/python-live-gui/-/blob/main/exam...
I had some time off last week so I built a little tool I've been planning on using for a while now.
Thought I'd just comment on my motivations for building this.
I bought a little chromebook tablet to take on holidays. I've been enjoying the experience of using a remote IDE to code on my personal server.
I thought it would be neat if I could quickly make myself GUIs for other utilities on my remote server that get rendered on my chromebook. Doing this like being able to run bash scripts remotely.
I start utility scripts with this tool and then just use ssh port forwarding to view it locally.
The fun bit is the application itself is then just written in python.
There are some similar alternatives[1] but I wanted to be able to write GUI elements like ImGUI so I decided to build my own tool in the end.
I just wrote it in python because that's what I've been using at work lately.
Here’s the hackernews discussion around that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23134101
This is the code I run in a cron job: https://gitlab.com/BenWiser/googledocsblog
You do however need a server and your own domain.
I was under the impression that apple is planning on releasing one more M1 device and that could be the iMac Pro [1]. This article feels quite hollow to me.
I'm a bit hesitant about using an external service for something like this however. I just have a cronjob running on the server I use for my website and that's worked out pretty well.
I like to get endorphins. I like that the field I chose as a career can give me that when I feel like I did something well. I think an argument goes into pretty vague territory if one tries to argue that it’s more “good” when you get a nice feeling from helping others instead of feeling nice from your own work.
I'm tempted to install this version the second they hit their first release candidate for that feature alone.
I used to work in an agency and we would charge by the hour so you needed to find a safe space between speed and safety. I wrote some nice, and some not so nice code there.
I now work at a much larger company and the environment is vastly different. We focus heavily on metrics, are very careful with testing, make sure to design design components, security reviews, and have plenty of documentation.
I really do wish software engineering could be used as the term to identify this kind of environment where it's not just about the code, but about all the stuff you do around code to ensure it's safe.
Like others have suggested, I get the impression this system is assuming TLS will work and perhaps isn’t trusting the server the password ends up on.