Weeknotes 170

You think this is late, but no, check yo timezones.

I’m in Canada because I attended Rails World 2024 on Thursday and Friday. A good opportunity to have a holiday. I’ll make an effort to summarize Rails World next week. Probably.

Our Android App is Frozen in Carbonite

Google’s chaos makes Apple’s control seem reasonable.

Paralyzed Man Unable to Walk After Maker of His Powered Exoskeleton Tells Him It’s Now Obsolete

Fortunately, Lifeward eventually capitulated and Straight was able to get his exoskeleton repaired — but that was only after an intense campaign in which he went on local TV, got highlighted in a horse industry publication, and gained steam on social media.

Oh course they did.

OpenFreeMap – OpenFreeMap lets you display custom maps on your website and apps for free.

No more broken Google Maps due to missing or expired API keys.

This Week I Learnt about the Lindy effect.

The Lindy effect (also known as Lindy’s Law[1]) is a theorized phenomenon by which the future life expectancy of some non-perishable things, like a technology or an idea, is proportional to their current age. Thus, the Lindy effect proposes the longer a period something has survived to exist or be used in the present, the longer its remaining life expectancy.

[Via How to cope with technology FOMO].