Web development is fun again(ma.ttias.be)

444 points by Mojah 9 months ago | 544 comments

Mattias Geniar's blog post reflecting on how web development felt simpler in the PHP 4 and jQuery era and arguing it has become fun again.

100k TPS over a billion rows: the unreasonable effectiveness of SQLite(andersmurphy.com)

344 points by speckx 10 months ago | 124 comments

Blog post by Anders Murphy benchmarking SQLite at 100k transactions per second over a billion rows, arguing its embedded single-writer design helps it scale.

Are AI labs pelicanmaxxing?(dylancastillo.co)

632 points by dcastm 3 months ago | 237 comments

Blog post investigating whether AI labs are optimizing their LLMs for Simon Willison's 'SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle' informal benchmark.

Surprisingly, Emacs on Android is pretty good(kristofferbalintona.me)

242 points by harryday 11 months ago | 120 comments

We Tested 7 Languages Under Extreme Load and Only One Didn't Crash(freedium.cfd)

4 points by nnx 1 year ago | 1 comments

I Didn't Need Kubernetes, and You Probably Don't Either(benhouston3d.com)

308 points by bhouston 1 year ago | 300 comments

F-Droid and Google’s developer registration decree(f-droid.org)

1284 points by gumby271 1 year ago | 472 comments

F-Droid blog post responding to Google's new requirement that Android app developers register with Google, and its impact on F-Droid and free software apps.

Google restricts Android sideloading(puri.sm)

377 points by fsflover 1 year ago | 247 comments

Purism blog post discussing Google's restrictions on Android sideloading and implications for user autonomy and mobile freedom, promoting Librem 5 and PureOS.

Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps(arstechnica.com)

1092 points by 0xedb 7 months ago | 1150 comments

Android Developers Blog post on Android developer verification, explaining Google's policy and a 24-hour process to sideload apps from unverified developers.

MicroG: Free-libre re-implementation of Google's proprietary Android user space(github.com)

378 points by theanonymousone 6 days ago | 131 comments

GitHub wiki home page for microG GmsCore, a free software reimplementation of Google Play Services for AOSP-based Android ROMs.

Linux phones are more important now than ever(feddit.org)

627 points by wicket 1 year ago | 394 comments

A Lemmy forum post arguing Linux phone development must accelerate as Android becomes more closed, citing AOSP changes and bootloader lock removals.

So long Google, and thanks for all the nudes(lecaro.me)

188 points by speckx 28 days ago | 77 comments

Personal blog post about using old Android 6 phones without Google Play, enjoying degoogled Android, and abandoning the Play Store over its broken review process.