I've been reading about and messing with Plan9 from Bell Labs. The integration with the mouse and the terminal/editor/text everywhere is amazing. It's way beyond what is supported in even the fanciest terminals now. This is really an alternative way to think about interaction. How can we not have this yet, 40 years after they first tried it out?

Upgrading EKS clusters today. Surprisingly without issues. Seems things have finally gotten to where this Just Works™. At least with a sample size of 2.

Messing with #Golang KV DB Badger and finding it pretty cool. It's FAST.

I have been working in Swift recently, given that our frintend is iOS. I’m not impressed with the language. It doesn’t know what it wants to be.

It’s a functional language that has to run on a legacy stdlib that is object oriented, so it just mashes both together. The closest analogue I’ve used before is Scala, which I think is worse than Swift. Second, the way that Swift allows monkey patching of stdlib objects by libraries is concerning. This can be done OK if used carefully and in a very limited way. Worse is that lots of libraries do it in place of better implementations that are less invasive. It’s a lazy crutch. Because you can monkey patch stuff but then not re-open those patches elsewhere, it means that you have no control over the boundary of the library and the library may make other choices for your code impossible. Kind of a crazy thing.

It also has a weak collections library and poor time and calendar functions. It’s not all bad. The tooling is reasonable and there is at least one good testing framework. Still, for a modern language, it’s not at all impressive. I was hoping for better. 

I set up Supermaven AI-based code completion (Co-pilot competitor) using their #Neovim plugin. They have a free tier, which seems to work great, and the Neovim plugin could not be simpler to install and use. Only used it for less than a day so far, but I like it. It's fast. https://supermaven.com/