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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.

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.

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

• All Your Routes Are Ready, More or Less - Dave Protasowski
• When Life Gives You Containers, Make an Open Source RDS: A Kubernetes Love Story - Sergey Pronin, Percona
• How to Move from Ingress to Gateway API with Minimal Hassle - Keith Mattix, Microsoft
• Running Quantum-Safe Applications on Kubernetes - Paul Schweigert & Michael Maximilien, IBM Quantum
• What Agent to Trust with Your K8s: Falco, Tetragon or KubeArmor? - Henrik Rexed, Dynatrace
• What Istio Got Wrong: Learnings from the Last Seven Years of Service Mesh - Christian Posta & Louis Ryan, Solo.io
• The Maintainer Monologues - Sarah Christoff, Defense Unicorns; Jason Hall, Chainguard; Scott Rigby & Karen Chu, Independent; Ryan Nowak, Microsoft
• Per-Node Api-Server Proxy: Expand the Cluster’s Scale and Stability - Weizhou Lan & Iceber Gu, DaoCloud
• Pick My Project! Lessons Learned from Interviewing 20+ End Users for Cloud Native Case Studies - Shedrack Akintayo & Bill Mulligan, Isovalent at Cisco
• How Google Built a New Cloud on Top of Kubernetes - Jie Yu & Prashanth Venugopal, Google
• Better Together! GPU, TPU and NIC Topological Alignment with DRA - John Belamaric, Google & Patrick Ohly, Intel
• Can You Put a Price Tag on Open Source? - Mario Fahlandt, Kubermatic & Bob Killen, CNCF
• Open Source 2.0: The Maintainers’ Perspective - William Morgan, Buoyant; Ashley Davis, Venafi; Deepthi Sigireddi, PlanetScale; Emily Omier, Emily Omier Consulting; Matt Bates, Cofide
• Upgrade Safely: Avoid the Pitfalls of Kubernetes Versioning - Rob Scott, Google
• Kubernetes on Multisites – A Story About Stateful App, Hybrid Clouds, and High Availability - Florian Coulombel, Dell Technologies & Jan Šafránek, Red Hat
• What’s New in Operator Framework?! - Bryce Palmer, Rashmi Gottipati & Lalatendu Mohanty, Red Hat; Attila Meszaros, Apple
• Still Don’t Do What Charlie Don’t Does - Making CRD Changes Safer - Nick Young, Isovalent
• Gamifying Cloud Native: How to Design and Build an Educational Game for Your Project - Calum Murray, University of Toronto, Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering & Zainab Husain, OCAD University
• Object Storage Is All You Need - Justin Cormack, Docker
• The Missing Talk About API Versioning & Evolution in Your Developer Platform - Stefan Schimanski, Upbound & Sergiusz Urbaniak, Independent
• Thousands of Gamers, One Kubernetes Network - Surya Seetharaman, Red Hat & Girish Moodalbail, NVIDIA Inc
• Goodbye etcd! Running Kubernetes on Distributed PostgreSQL - Denis Magda, Yugabyte

Lighting Talks

• gRPC: The gRPC “Standard Library” | Project Lightning Talk
• ⚡ Lightning Talk: Kubectl Debug Lacks an IDE Option. Let’s Fix That! - Mario Loriedo, Red Hat
• SlimToolkit: Improving DX with Containers - Making it Easy to Understand, Optimize, and Debug Your Containers | Project Lightning Talk
• Project Overview: A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the CNCF Landscape - Katherine Druckman and Lori Lorusso, CNCF Ambassador
• Meshery: Visualizing Kubernetes Resource Relationships with Meshery | Project Lightning Talk

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.

Passion or Profession

Last week I completed 虚伪的真心话 (超思考)by 北野武(Takeshi Kitano). Takeshi Kitano is a famous Japanese comedian, actor, and film director, and he is of the same age as people from my grandparents generation.

I am an east-asian, and I think China, Japan, and Korea are the three countries that have much similarity in their culture and history. So recently days I have been reading several books of Japanese / Korean authors, and I think that’s a really good way to learn and think.