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bobulouson Republicans to pass bill in House to end telework for federal employees

remote work is great but moving to a rural area or suburb is not better for the environment

bobulouson WeWork’s once robust cash reserves have dwindled, raising chances of default

Their hot-desk monthly membership is around $300 without discounts. Not cheap but probably cheaper than most dedicated office rents.

bobulouson Apple’s use of Swift and SwiftUI in iOS 16

This makes sense since only apps (re)built from the ground up would use the SwiftUI lifecycle instead of the UIKit compatibility layer

bobulouson Apple’s Use of AppKit, Mac Catalyst and SwiftUI in macOS

Source for Apple Music being an electron app? There is a Apple Music related preference pane that is a webview but that is not the same thing.

bobulouson 40% of California's small businesses died in the last two years

Looks like he deleted the tweet. Might not be the best idea to repost screenshots from right wing political accounts.

bobulouson Are we wrong about Web3?

Cool to see terminusdb is majority written in Prolog (Have fond memories of writing Prolog in Uni). Is this the most prominent open source Prolog project

bobulouson Binance kept weak money-laundering checks even as it promised tougher compliance

"For a corporation of its scale, Binance discloses little public information. It says it does not have a headquarters and does not identify which entity controls its main exchange..."

I don't see the point of giving them the benefit of the doubt. Their outfit is clearly designed to avoid the kind of regulation that would discourage money laundering.

bobulouson Why can't we build nice neighborhoods anymore?

> For one thing, there are autos all over Paris, so at least in principle it ought to be possible to build in ways that are both highly attractive and allow for cars.

The presence of cars does not mean it was built for cars. The most important difference between pre-war and post-war neighborhoods is that one was built FOR cars

bobulouson YouTube is banning anti-vaccine activists and blocking all anti-vaccine content

The scandal is that it has taken this long. YouTube is not a public platform and should be held responsible for the content they promote.

bobulouson Command line tools for productive programmers

One tool that I don't think gets enough love is the "git-fixup" add-on. It looks at your commit log and recommends relevant commits to fix-up based on your staged files.

If you are using fixup commits in your PR review process it's essential.