GIMP 3.0 is finally here 🥹

@itsthatladydev.bsky.social has the details in this episode of The Download ⬇️
youtu.be/hhCMggZXQYU

Generics, recursive types, and structural subtyping are all features that many modern languages want, but their combination can quickly get unwieldy. A POPL Distinguished Paper from last year distilled a decidable type system that combines all three. blog.sigplan.org/2025/01/29/p...

My prediction for React is that its going to continue to off-load managing state as much as possible. RSC made that very clear. For offline-first apps projects like replicache might give it a boost. But for very rich, highly interactive UIs, signal based frameworks will slowly start to punch through

I'm starting to wince a bit when I hear the word "declarative"

The hardest skill to learn in software is when to stop adding features / changing the thing.

web components are good

Great piece on BlueSky and enshittification by Cory Doctorow. “I will never again devote my energies to building up an audience on a platform whose management can sever my relationship to that audience at will.”

www.mollywhite.net/micro/entry/...

trying to use dynamically typed languages again