miniblog.

I find it really interesting how some areas of tech are widely expected to improve radically (e.g. LLMs and smart home tech), others gradually (CPU speed, battery capacity) and others very slowly (e.g. compiler optimisations). Predicting the future is hard.

I've worked on apps with really cute custom spinners. They can add a distinct vibe for the app. It's a high risk strategy though. If any part of your system starts running slowly, users develop ban associations with the spinner. I prefer default spinner designs these days.

IPFS is a really nice distributed filesystem that is slowly growing in popularity. Netflix has found a good use case: container image distribution. https://containerjournal.com/topics/container-management/ipfs-emerges-as-tool-to-distribute-container-image I'm slightly reminded of Usenet: just download content from the nearest server!