Links by Friday 04 - Swift, Signal, Failure, Frameworks
- Frameworks cover up skills issues - I love this post because Jake links to other great posts like Seldo's1 You will never be a fullstack developer. His point is that you can't be an expert at everything, so don't worry about using a framework - an abstraction, that allows you bring your idea to life.
- How to Succeed at Failure - Freakonomics Radio Podcast has a 4 part series on failure. It covers many areas of life and business and is a good listen.
- All the places Swift will go - Did you know you can use Swift server-side? And on Windows? There's more I didn't know about Swift before listening to this episode of The Changelog with Ben Cohen, Swift Team Manager.
- Privacy is Priceless, but Signal is Expensive - In this post we get an insight into what it takes to run a global open source privacy first communications project.
Signal spends tens of millions of dollars every year. We estimate that by 2025, Signal will require approximately $50 million dollars a year to operate—and this is very lean compared to other popular messaging apps that don’t respect your privacy.
If you value privacy and the work Signal does, please consider donating.
That's it for this week. See you next time.
Yes, I know his name is Laurie Voss↩