I do NOT like message recall/replacement

I do NOT like message recall/replacement. I prefer to NOT use it during online conversations, for both personal and work-related sessions.

Recall or replacement messages encourage people to avoid taking responsibility for their words. It’s like saying, “I can say whatever I want, and if I regret it, I can just take it back.” It’s a way to avoid the consequences of our actions.

Also at the professional level, it’s a way to avoid accountability. If I have sent a message to a client or a colleague, I want to be responsible for what I said, which means, if I made a mistake, I will have to apologize and correct it. I don’t want to be able to take it back, and pretend it never happened.

2024 Week 51: Quick Updates

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Professional Stuff

I take a review about products built by Boring Design:

  • EasyDevo, Free, https://easydevo.boringboring.design/, clean my mac but for developers, majorly focus on cleaning javascript node_modules, rust targets, golang build cache, and xcode build cache.
  • Haye, Paid with subscription, https://haye.ai/, an in-context AI assistant for MacOS. It could be triggered by selection then press the hotkey, then chat with context.
  • Bridge, onetime payment, https://boringboring.design/products/bridge, a human-centric timezone tool. It could help remote teams to find other’s timezone.

We started our first commit at Sep 19, 2023, it has been 15 months. We did make some money, barely to cover the cost of server, services for the products. We need to put more effort into marketing, sales.

2024 Week 46: Quick Updates

Professional Stuff

Introduced Curosr to My Wife

Cursor is an AI powered IDE, based on VSCode. The major difference is that it can provide more tight integration with the codebase, like asking questions with @codebase, also it has a “composer mode” which could help modify files in a more structured way with the diff view. It extremely likes a pair programming colleague, but I am always the “navigator”. I have used it for a while, and I think it’s a good tool for me.

KubeCon NA 2024, my most anticipated topics

I always make a list about the topics I am most interested in during KubeCon. Here is my list for KubeCon NA 2024. Parts of them already have slides, we could watch them before the conference.

And later I will update my comments/reviews on each topic.

Talks

Lighting Talks

2024 Week 45: Quick Updates

I did not feel something special in this week, so just some quick reviews and updates.

Professional Stuff

Bring macOS native module to electron with NAPI-RS and swift-bridge

TLDR; Build browser webpage, or build native app. Electron/Tauri/Wails is not the best choice for desktop app, unless

  • cross-platform is a must
  • also the app do not ask for tightly system integration
  • and you do not care about the look and feel of the app

We developed a in-context AI assistant tool called Haye, https://haye.ai. And we used to decided to use electron as the framework to build it, and now it looks like electron already become the burden of the project. We want to build the native-like experience on macOS, and we always use the webview to imitate the native. And our app want to integrate with the system, like hotkey, notification, Notes, or Shortcuts. None of them can be easily done with only javascript. And there is not so good ecosystem for electron to do this.