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Wat is n ontsagwekkende dag / What is a awesome day

Wat maak n ontsagwekkende dag? Dis nie die bollie werk of die rye waarin mens moes staan by die winkel. Nee. Dis daai oomblik wanner jou hondjie verby jou hardloop met n slipper wat sy gesteel het. Wanner jy daai glimlag kry en als los om agter haar aan te hardloop. Onskuldig maar stout. Wanner jy net die oomblik in jou kop het en van al die ander goed vergeet.

Die dae wanner jy n prentjie of boodskap sien en dit aktiveer duisende emosies en gedagtes. As jy op gelig kan word deur die klein goedjies. Om met iemand te praat oor wat jy doen en eenvoudig net n konneksie te maak.

As jy iets reg kry wat jy nie gedink het jy kan doen nie. Dis n ongelooflike gevoel.

Sulke dae is ontsagwekkend en iets om oor te skryf.

English Translation:

What makes an awesome day? It’s not the bore of work or the rows in which one had to stand at the store. No. It’s that moment when your puppy runs past you with a slipper she stole. When you get that smile and leave everything to run after her. Innocent but naughty. When you just have that moment in your head and forget about everything else.

The days when you see a picture or message and it activates thousands of emotions and thoughts. If you can be lifted by the little things. Talking to someone about what you do and just making a connection.

If you get something right that you didn’t think you could do. It’s an incredible feeling.

Such days are awesome and something to write about.

Nog n dag, Ver verby

Nog a dag is verby, dink ek is op n ander wêreld of ek beweeg lig spoed want tyd gaan vinniger elke dag.

Dit lyk ook as of daar iewers op die internet iemand besluit het om hulle IP te stel na myne, nou kom daar baie ewekansige internet koppelings na my server. Is besig om dit te uit te soort, maar mens kan net soveel DDOS inbrake hanteer. Ons het regtig nie meer baie IPV4 adresse oor nie en ek wonder of die nie die eerste van daai probleme is nie. As mens Occam’s Razor in ag neem, kan dalk iemand wees wat my aanval met n bot net. Die patroon wys dat daar duisende verskillende IP’s konnekteer, van rekenaars in Melasia tot iphones in Rusland.

Hier is vir julle n koel liedjie, gaan gerus en kry hulle album, dis goed

Where can the web go

It is interesting to see that Google’s Go Lang and web programming languages are used for more important stuff. I stumbled onto some of code from SpaceX on Github. They are using go web assembly for their iis-simulator. Seems they are also using web components for a lot of their other interfaces too.

Web browsers are sand boxed and they do not provide a lot of features and access to many parts of the operating system. Looking at projects like Discord, visual studio code and lots more, everyone is following the route of wrapping their web applications in their own browsers and wrappers. Through this they gain more access to operating system features by utilizing technology such as electron and nodejs.

But are these technologies memory friendly and future proof? Consider how many times software stacks has changed. These technologies sounds beginner friendly, but are they really the route we want to go?

I’m putting my money on web assembly and the future of compiled code in the web browsers. Rust is leading on that front with their memory safe approach. Go is also following suit and making great progress on that front. This makes it easier for the average programmer and makes the development and testing processes faster.

Taking my own experience into account, where I’ve written quite a few advanced as well as useless programs, in languages ranging from C++, Lua, Python,C#,PhP, Java, Clarion, Sql, Tcl to Delphi. And I have to say that I’m enjoying Go the most. It took some time to learn and to go with the Gopher.

I think despite all the changes, programmers are always going to follow the simplest route. Complex problems will be solved by the simplest languages.

See the link below for some insights on the 2020 Developer Survey on Stack Overflow

https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2020#technology-most-loved-dreaded-and-wanted-languages-loved