Using Visual Studio Code remotes to develop on a different CPU architecture — With Apple transitioning all Macs to Apple Silicon in these months, there’s certainly a lot of momentum for bringing ARM-based computing to consumers… and also developers. The list of devices that are now running on CPUs based on the ARM architecture, as opposed to the x86 of Intel and AMD…

Why I have stopped with IPFS and the distributed web — I spent a large part of 2019 working with the distributed and decentralized web, especially IPFS, also known as the “Inter-Planetary File System”. …

A guide to interacting with JavaScript from Go/Wasm — WebAssembly, or Wasm, is an open standard that allows developers to build apps that run inside a web browser using compiled programming languages. With WebAssembly, it’s possible to write components of web apps in languages such as C/C++, Rust, C#, and Go, among others, which run within the same sandbox…

A personal story about creating new products and their unintended consequences — In the fall of 2007, my parents gave me an unforgettable gift for my sixteenth birthday: a first-generation iPhone. I still clearly remember watching the keynote in which Steve Jobs announced the first Apple-branded phone a few months earlier. As a teenager attending high school in my hometown of Vicenza…

Will they succeed in alienating developers? — I’m a software developer and I’ve been using a Mac for 15 years, when I got my first Mac running OSX Tiger 10.4. Throughout this time, professionally or not, I’ve been building full-stack apps with a variety of technologies, including JavaScript, Go, and PHP; for a while, I also worked…

Where to put npm modules in your package.json. It’s not as simple as it seems. — A few days back, someone opened a pull request for svelte-spa-router — an open-source project I maintain as a client-side router for single-page apps built with the Svelte framework — asking whether they should install the module as a dependency or a devDependency in the package.json file. Aside from the…

And why you should do it — Even if you don’t know about signed Git commits, you might have seen the screen above on GitHub. Let’s leave everything else aside from a moment — isn’t it oddly satisfying to have a large, green “Verified” badge on your work? Making a commit verified, or to be more precise…

It’s time to adopt safer solutions and save time and money — Most apps require some sort of authentication. You might be a developer working for a large company on their line-of-business apps, which require limiting access to authorized employees and checking their permissions. Or you might be building a new SaaS app, and you want users to create and maintain their…

Last Sunday, America was watching the Super Bowl LIV, with hundreds of millions of people gathered around TV screens, drinking beer, and eating junk food. For those who work in the business of food delivery, that’s the equivalent of Christmas day. …