They sort of tried to let FireWire be a standard, and it never caught on. So for lightning, they didn't bother. Sounds like the learned their lesson about making standards.

USB-C is kind of a big mess. Reversable connector is nice, but power is wonky, alternative nodes are wonky, everybody wants to add more alternative modes to the point where the only thing universal about it is the conbector (and usb 2 compatibility)

> They sort of tried to let FireWire be a standard, and it never caught on.

Firewire is a standard — IEEE 1394.

There are plenty of rumors of Apple moving to USB-C in 2019 models.

I'm reasonably sure they'll switch either to USB-C or something they find even better (which could very well be inductive charging only, no connector), but there were plenty of rumours about adopting all flavors of usb before they switched to lightning too.

And dozens of rumors for the last 10 months from supposed financial authorities that the iPhone X was dead.

I've given up on Apple rumors. Especially anything from a business web site. Nothing is good since the death of Think Secret.

If it's not on Apple's web site, it didn't happen and isn't going to happen.

Heck, even then Apple has its own vaporware.

What do you mean? FireWire wasn’t widely adopted in the consumer market, but who cares? Most digital video cameras at the time supported FireWire as well as laptops from Sony and the higher end laptops from Dell.

There wasn’t any dirth of hardware for people who needed it and where it made sense.

And cable boxes used to be required, by law, to have firewire connections. I used that little loophole to request a different cable box from Comcast, then shoved the Firewire plug into a MacBook so I could record TV on it.

(The firewire port was required because many early large projection HDTV sets had Firewire video ports and the FCC didn't want to suddenly obsolete millions of early adopters.)

Learn what? They've gone from near bankruptcy in 1997 to the the most valuable company on the planet in 2017, so it's not like firewire hurt them (or anybody cared much about it except some video and audio pros).

I know a lot of regular people who got external Firewire drives with their Macs in the late 00's. My dad has a good pile with old photos on them.

It was significantly faster than USB2 in practice. I sold my external FW drives not that long ago, was using them with a FW-Thunderbolt adapter for quite a few years ago.

I got a couple as well. But the huge majority of the population didn't. Most PCs didn't even come with such ports...

I bought FireWire drives in the early '10s too. Although USB3 was available, FireWire drives still tend to be cheaper.

This is why I'm hyped about the fedi. This is what it'll finally take to break our dependence on a centralized web. Essentially, the email model. I wish we followed this model earlier in the web 2.0 days.

Is there a list of various "federated" version of different social networks? Would be interested in a list if there was one.

All these decentralized alternatives don't have iPhone apps. It's app store policy that is blocking devs, ain't it?

I'm working the mobile app for Android. Groundwork for iOS is underway: https://twitter.com/andrestaltz/status/981622147864039424

They're not native apps?

Staltz is working on a mobile app for Android. Other people can make other apps too.

Native implementation is what is blocking it. The libraries would have to be implemented for it to work in different environments.

And that's a good thing - because PWAs are easier to build and maintain

Are you suggesting there is a PWA scuttlebutt implementation out there somewhere? Or just joining the apple hate bandwagon?

Here's the history of CSS layouts as told by a CSSWG spec writer: http://fantasai.inkedblade.net/weblog/2012/css-layout-evolut...

Neat writeup, thank you.

I know right? Sites like these used to be linked so often. Now that this is no longer the case, I've easily forgotten about these old sites.

Now I'm wishing GitUp had this selection tool. Sadly you can only do operations one commit/branch at a time.

Don't expect him to protect net neutrality just because he is an exec from Silicon Valley: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2g4g95/peter_thiel_te...

Articles like these remind me that Lisp uses the perfect number of tokens.

Signal Processing was that subject I found difficult and I found no reason to be interested in audio filtering, so I didn't find an incentive to work through that difficulty. Then I see applications of signal processing, like this, that goes beyond simple audio filtering, that makes me want to learn it again. Honestly, this looks like wizardry! It is no surprise, MIT is on the bleeding edge of signal processing and it mainly is due to Dr. Oppenheim . He wrote the textbook on DSP and runs the DSP Group at MIT.