♪ Nadje Noordhuis · Migration

The relationship between developers and App Store reviewers is tense at best. Most people are trying to build well-designed, useful mobile apps. Apple has instituted App Store reviews to maintain a high-quality bar for apps and weed out spammy or nefarious actors, using human evaluators to test individual apps and provide direct feedback. However, malicious apps are relatively rare; arguably, Apple doesn’t do a great job filtering them out anyway. — Outdated vs. Complete

Explained from scratch: private information retrieval using homomorphic encryption.

Data types à la carte. #haskell

Types at the edges in Python. #python

TIL about Rclone, thanks to the following blog post: An Upside-Down Backup Strategy.

Cmus revamped!

I don’t tap my own phone. I don’t xerox postcards before I mail them back from vacation. I don’t take a voice recorder when I go out with friends. And I don’t have a copy machine at home to duplicate hand written notes I may send. — The cost of saving sent e-mail

I do like having local copies, both of my handxritten notes and of my sent e-mails. Digital nomadism, with one foot in the analog world.

Incrementing Vectors.

The internet is no longer a place where a relatively-small fraction of the human population go to find something different than everyday life. It is everyday life for billions of people. As long as life is megacorps and information gatekeepers, so too is the global ubiquitous internet. Mission accomplished. — Searching the Creative Internet