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Hey, this is Adam. And this is Change Ball News for the week of Monday, August 22, 2022. So Jared is out this week and that means I get to do the news. But where is Jared?
Good question. Thankfully, nothing has gone wrong. He's probably hitting some golf balls right about now. But while I talk about Jared, just want to say what an awesome job he's done starting this Monday edition of the podcast.
Seriously, I'm impressed. I've been loving it and I'm a listener. Let's give him a round of applause. Ladies and gentlemen, Pied Piper appears to have just doubled the best Wiseman score ever measured.
Doubled it. Pied Piper, ladies and gentlemen. Okay, let's get into the news. First up, Carlos Alexander Becker Schiff's SSA TV learned over the years, including New King.
You know, I still haven't set up a Yubikey. I need to do that. Yes, I have an SSH key in my house written down. Cool.
Wow. Carlos covers sshing straight into TeamLux agginately list for commonly used hosts. This is on Use every single dev template I use. Making connections last longer by adding a server alive interval program to the host Star Record and Yubikey and GitHub without touching it every time.
But admits this goes against the principles of using Yubikey. The link is in the show notes. Next up, Sakun Akridge, a comp science student and visual design enthusiast, created System css. It's a CSS library for building retro Apple inspired interfaces like when Steve was around.
System CSS lets you build interfaces that resemble Apple's System OS, which ran from 1984 to 1991. Design wise, not much really changed from System 1 to System 6. But this library is based on System 6 as it was the final monochrome version of Mac. If you're feeling retro, check it out onto iOS privacy.
And this one is quite concerning. Felix Krause built a browser app that lists the JavaScript commands being executed by the iOS app that's running the page. Here's how you use it. First, you open up an app you want to analyze.
Then you share the URL in appbrowser.com somewhere inside the app. For example, send it into a friend or post the link to your feed. Then tap the link from inside the app to open it inside the in App browser, then re report on the screen. His findings I've used this for a bit are quite concerning.
Especially TikTok. TikTok is subscribing to all keyboard inputs. This includes passwords, credit card information. Every tap on the screen, the buttons you tap, the links you click, all that.
For too long these large tech companies have harvested our data. They have violated our privacy. They have tracked our every move. Yikes.
Now let's turn to Mac os. After trying many different file managers for Mac OS and then waiting around for a year and a half for someone to make one or four the existing file managers to get better, Yanzulana decided to create Marta. Marta is a native macOS app with a minimalist design. It sports a dual pane ui.
It's customizable and thievable. It's native, it's extensible, it's fast. Giddy up. I haven't tried this yet, but it is on my list.
Okay, Power versus Electron. I'll bite. This is a comparison from Lork Levante using a real world application that he's building called off me. This comparison focuses on these key points.
Bundle size, startup time, performance, app back end rendering, your app security, auto update and developer experience. So is Electron being replaced? You guys, it worked. It happened.
We won boss. We died. Lorch says quote yes, Tauri is way better, but it still misses a lot. In a couple of years I'm sure the Tauri team will catch up.
Electron. The things I'm excited for are Deno has a backend, better auto update and iOS Android support. End quote in case you missed it, check out episode 497 of the Change. While we talked to Daniel Thompson about Tauri and their journey to the recent 1.0.
Here's a clip from Episode we're talking about app sizes for Tauri. Tauri definitely I think is well positioned because of these very small app sizes that y' all produce to change the game once again and allow better cross platform apps to be built. The smallest app size that I know of was 450 kilobytes for a functional hello World macOS app. Granted the ICNs the icon file for Mac.
If you do your. If you play it right, the icon is generally the largest piece of your code base. I say I got nice big icon files. Yeah, that's, you know there's just 700800 kilobytes right there and the code that we need to build the app is 300 kilobytes.
If you write solid, tight, minified JavaScript and you use SVGs, you know, and, and you do like the awesome parts of rust compression. Then you can absolutely get down to 2, 3 megabytes for a small app for massive apps. Okay, sure, there's maybe a bit more JavaScript and then it's 8 or 9 megabytes again. That's episode 497.
Links are in the show notes. That's the news for now. Stay tuned for our regular edition of the Change up on Friday, when Jared and I talked about alcohol, about life at sea and building. Reflect.
Have a great week. Talk to you. Then it developed a general solution to discrete log in polynomial time. What?
Okay, is this a good thing or a bad thing? Someone tell me how to feel abject error for you. Build from there.