What is happening in tech unrelated to AI?
What is happening in tech outside the AI echo chamber?
Got a bit burned out looking the news and tech podcasts today, except for security news (like from Lapsu$ group) no other news that didn't involve openAI and/or AI in general.
In the web framework world, libraries are moving from a react component style of authoring to an older knockout based model. This means, instead of rendering an entire block of HTMl on each render pass, just a minimal subset will be rerendered, as the variable is bound to specific DOM elements. This effort started with Knockout, fell out of favor, and saw a resurgence with the success of SolidJS. Svelte has started moving in this direction. It's my opinion that React's compiler will eventually serve the same purpose to allow their giant user base to get the same benefits.
In the web performance space, there's some interesting stuff happening in origin trails around shared dictionary compression. It has been tried and failed before but the latest iteration/spec hopefully improved those shortfalls that made them unusable. Also, ZSTD compression has taken the crown from brotli.
Metas new AR glasses seem to be approaching the ideal hardware, IMO it's still searching for its killer app. Microsoft exited the AR space by killing hololens.
Startup space is dying right now, with very low VC risk tolerance / interest. Some funds have returned money to investors rather than risk it in investing.
AR/VR is in a hype superposition, large companies have made large investments yet the tech is arguably in the "trough of disillusionment". Few people think it will break into mainstream use anytime soon.
So far, 99% of sales are in the "expensive gaming accessory" category. There is fun and interesting UI and gameplay innovation happening here.
The one non-gaming thing everyone seems to want is just a large virtual desktop workspace. Apple has probably come closest here. It sounds like an easy problem but without a high resolution and a wide field of view, it's not a good experience.
Bambu labs got me into 3d printing. It’s the most seamless and simple 3d printer and functions as basically an appliance. Huge leap for 3d printing and I suspect we’re closer than ever to making jt affordable and easy.
PHP 8.4 comes out next month and will bring new functions, including array_find, array_find_key, array_any, and array_all. It will also introduce property hooks.
I'd love it if there was a site where I could follow developments at the intersection between business and tech that don't mention whatever's being hyped up at that point in time.
The lack of responses so far on this thread is just sad.
Sodium ion batteries are widely available now. We haven't had a new battery you can actually buy in like, ten years or more.
Meshtastic now has way better encryption from what I hear.
The CH32V 20 cent riscv chips seem to be Arduino ready and somewhat mainstream.
This is an important question that I hope has a lot of responses, thanks for submitting it. From my cloud/infra/sre perspective, the fork of terraform (openTofu) is extremely exciting to me. I wish I had the time to contribute to it, IAC has been a career-saver for me, and terraform/hashicorp have a lot of warts.
I am aware of the WordPress drama, but it feels more like a business news than tech news.
You should train an AI to search for tech news that doesn't talk about AI.
Check out ladybird browser. I look forward to checking out the monthly updates from Andreas.
Version 8 of Ruby on Rails?
I read Google News' Technology section and avoid the AI subsection.
Open Source Home Automation is on the rise. Check out Home Assistant
my mom says hating on ai is going out of fashion
Winamp was recently open sourced.
