HN crowd told me they’re porting to swift. When I asked “why not Rust”, they said the C++ code was very OOP, so it was easier to port to swift.

vim vs. emacs

It doesn’t matter if you personally like emacs more, far fewer people use it.

https://plenz.com/tmp/vi.html

Fastmail is really, really nice.

For my family member who moved out of country, signal’s voice quality was not very good. WhatsApp’s quality was better than a regular phone call, very impressive.

Also, outside the US WhatsApp is some kind of standard the way rich Americans think iMessage is. Companies will ask her to contact them on WhatsApp, so she’ll have to have it regardless of your personal involvement.

There’s also jitsi.

I discounted this theory the first time I heard it because it’s too cool.

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.markuspage.android.atimetracker/

has served me well.

I love the weird fast-scrolling button in Hews.

A “solution” to this might be for lemmy instances/apps to have the option to “load remote images” the way e-mail providers do. So I have to actively click to load the images. Could even be done per subscription, so I could declare that I just want everything loaded when I see lemmy.ml/c/pics but not in general, where I usually want text.