The Daily Index — Tuesday, September 26, 2023 · TLDR Index

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TLDR Web Dev

TLDR Web Dev

BUN VS NODE.JS: EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW

This article provides a detailed comparison of Bun vs Node.js, from low level runtime engine to web APIs to package manager and more. Overall, Bun has wide support for many JavaScript use cases and it’s faster than Node.js. For example, hot reloading is better with Bun than with Node.js because Node.js methods sometimes require a full process restart.

builder.io · 12 min

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5 RULES THAT WILL DRIVE A LONG, HEALTHY CAREER

This article, written by a VP of Product at Meta, gives sage advice on how to have a great career. For example, people must think long-term when making a change, ensuring each career transition is career additive. Developers must also find a strength area and try to build a superpower in it as developing a specialty makes one more valuable.

theskip.substack.com · 9 min

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TEXT EDITING ON MOBILE: THE INVISIBLE PROBLEM

Android and iOS share a common problem: they copied desktop text editing conventions, but without a menu bar or mouse. This forced them to overload the tap gesture with a wide range of actions: placing the cursor, moving it, selecting text, and invoking a pop-up menu. This results in overly complicated and ambiguous taps, leading to a variety of user errors.

jenson.org · 16 min

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HOW TO HIDE A $2 TRILLION ANTITRUST TRIAL

Google is currently going through an antitrust trial against the United States government. Last week, over half of the trial was held behind closed doors because the judge, Amit Mehta, is deferring to Google on the need for secrecy. This means that the media isn’t able to report on the trial as much as they did during Microsoft’s antitrust trial 25 years ago.

thebignewsletter.com · 8 min

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THE STATE OF ASYNC RUST: RUNTIMES

Async Rust is not yet perfect. For example, libraries still need to be written against individual runtimes, which means that async Rust code needs to be written in a runtime-agnostic fashion. This makes the code more verbose and forces it to handle more edge cases.

corrode.dev · 11 min

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ARTIFICIAL GENERAL INTELLIGENCE

Dr. Rich Sutton, a distinguished research scientist, has left DeepMind to join John Carmack’s Keen Technologies in order to work on AGI.

globenewswire.com · 2 min

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PIXEL 8 LEAK PROMISES 7 YEARS OF OS UPDATES

Google has updated its policy of 3 years of OS updates to 7 years of OS updates.

arstechnica.com · 6 min