Regardless of likelihood to succeed in adoption or impact, what software do you know if with the highest ceiling for impact (for better or worse)?
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Ben Halpern
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What is the most potentially-revolutionary software currently being developed?
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Clickup.com I really like the pace to make a best version of jira
There have been tons of attempts to bring together project management, group chat and issue trackers. There's been no clear winner.
You can just say "not Jira" and I would be interested :P
I don’t know if I can call it revolutionary, but Hey has been amazing. I just love the idea of having a Screener and controlling who can send me emails, I wonder why I haven’t seen this before in order services.
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I think you are entirely missing the point. Reading your posts feels like Hey burned down your house.
Perhaps I am missing the point, because I don't see $99 worth of value in there. But I'm also one of those people that thinks that stupidly expensive cellphones are, well, stupid, as are expensive alloy wheels for your mac 🤷♂️ Convince me of something the Hey does that's honestly worth the cost. I'm all ears, except for my toes, which are really just fingers in disguise.
*obligatory Deno* 😂
Yeah I was reading the first comment and thinking "what happened to deno ? a few weeks ago every single post on the frontpage was about deno and now it's not even considered revolutionary ?"
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Well @ben , Me, and my team at TrustNet Pakistan are building an immunity certificate holding app that will be based on the blockchain-based back end.
We are confident that it will change the whole immunity certificate issuing process. We are thinking of introducing paperless certificates in a mobile app that will be holding the certificates of that user and they can get it verified on the airports and other places to show the authorities that they have been vaccinated for a certain disease.
Also, we are building it on the developer's favorite web and mobile frameworks i.e React & React Native. So, I am really excited about it. Also, we will be open-sourcing it, so, it makes me more energetic about it.
Watch everyone quickly post a link to a project on their Github :D
The more I read about facial recognition software, the more scared I become of what harm it could do to our societies...
Hmm.. I have a lot actually.
Man that crying AI ruined my whole morning. That is so awesome and creepy. Thanks I guess? :)
Yeah, I was super amazed by it which makes me feel this is super duper cool.
This is badass! ptsjs.org/guide/sound-0800
Looked at this 4 times today. Not revolutionary unless sounds based UI became acceptable. I'm talking UI that pulsates to music, dancing menus, what a world!
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<portal>element.That's a nifty niche library, but I don't see it as "revolutionary" compared to, say, safenetwork.tech, Discovery.earth, deep learning algorithms, CRISPR tools, or BioBricks software.
That's what I said.
Face recognition + machine learning software.
It will revolutionize how governments can control us (a glimpse into the future is available in china already).
Or how can recognize dangerous context and try to save human life.... All technologies can be used to help or not.
What would be some examples of that use of facial recognition?
Industrial plant. If there are problems in some area and need to check who is present or able to help.
Read what china is doing with social scoring of the whole population. Pretty Orwellian stuff.
Yep very sad, but we should split technology and use of it. Facial recognition is not more dangerous of ML, blockchain or other.... The problems come from man's choice.
What would face recognition bring here that classic pager duty tech can't?
Into industrial plant, the face recognition could be useful for retrieve information about who was involved into dangerous problems or call someone with right skills and near to dangerous area to help quickly.
Dangerous problems lead to serious investigations, in which humans will examine security/CCTV footage. I don't think they'll rely on automatic face recognition for this. And that technique is already used in China for far lesser offenses, like littering.
How does face recognition help in this case, vs. an employee directory?
I am currently studying the Microsoft Blazor tech stack and I am in love with it. Allows me to fully utilize my C# skills. I am looking forward to the new Blazor Mobile bindings that are currently being worked on. It's an exciting world now!
When I tried Blazor I couldn't find a good solution to have hot reload does it exist now ?
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Hasura. Postgres + easily scalable GraphQL API with support for realtime updates is a great foundation for quickly creating admin panels, dashboards without too much fuss. Plus the Hasura team is awesome!
Second this. I find it a close alternative to strapi.
THIS!!!!!!!!!
I’ve been using Hasura with a React side project and it’s been absolutely fantastic! I love how easy it is to work with Hasura and creat actions and events with my database. It’s so easy to use that even beginners like myself can get started and build complex backends in little to no time
NOT Hey.
I think a lot of the work in the open source cloud infrastructure space has a high impact on the entire software ecosystem. I'm talking about most of the projects that fall under the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) umbrella -- things like Prometheus, Envoy, containerd, etc. -- as well as "cloud native adjacent" stuff like Firecracker or Hashicorp's OSS offerings.
Most of all, though, I want to focus on Kubernetes. 🤩
Kubernetes has democratized the infrastructure automation capabilities of the hyperscalers. It provides a declarative, "self-healing", platform for deploying and running workloads that is (mostly) cloud agnostic. That said, it's still pretty complicated. Fortunately Kubernetes can act as a set of building blocks for building further abstractions on top of it! Kelsey Hightower sums this up better than I ever could in a tweet:
Projects like OpenFaas, Knative, and Cloud Foundry for Kubernetes (I work on this, so shameless plug) enhance Kubernetes further by providing full serverless and PaaS (Platform as a Service) experiences for developers.
By relying on Kubernetes and platforms built on top of it, developers can spend less time reinventing the wheel when it comes to infrastructure and more time developing applications that actually serve their users' needs.
In short Kubernetes and other Cloud Native projects provide devs with the infrastructure automation capabilities of the tech giants and this itself acts as a giant springboard for everything that is later built on top of it.
Disclaimer: I'm biased here cause I work with this stuff all day and would like to believe what I spend time on is meaningful. 😅
I would argue that cloud native is the key innovation here, and that Kubernetes is a great option among many viable platform-for-platforms solutions. (Nomad comes to mind.)
While k8s is an incredible project, I've come to sense that the Cloud Native movement is going through a "DevOps is not tools" phase. In their excellent book, Justin Garrison and Kris Nova stress time and again how the business, culture, and tools must also align in order to get the most out of tools like k8s.
As a result I have increasingly come to see the value of Kubernetes as an add-on to the much more important value of realizing a business and technical process that is capable of defining a pod spec regardless of the syntax.
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None of which, I think, contradicts what you said, but I think it's easy to miss.
Yep, completely agree that tools alone won't be the force multiplier that folks may be expecting. But the existence of these tools certainly makes it possible. :)
A skilled platform team and the right practices can enable hundreds of developers with k8s. :)
I kinda think what kubernetes has done is establish a common language to declare your application deployments. The API is what’s amazing here. An example of this is how Amazon put the API around fargate. Eventually tho, the kubernetes underlying services will fade into the back ground. What’s a kubelet and why is it running my c?
Ya, I've heard folks describe it as being a "common dial tone" for the cloud.
This is something I'm looking forward to. 😌 Developing nicer and nicer abstractions will continue to lower the barrier to entry to software development. 👍
Effectively saying, using kubernetes lowers the barrier of entering software development? 👀
Maybe what I said is a little broad... I'm just rattling off comments here. 😂
I don't believe Kubernetes lowers the barrier of entry to the field of software development, per se. In fact if someone is starting out and wanting to learn to code it's probably at best a distraction. I do believe, though, it lowers the barrier to entry for writing production-grade software that runs at scale. It provides:
Things that you or someone in your organization would have to do themselves and perhaps do manually. When used correctly it can save a lot of time and more devs can focus on writing their own software instead of learning how to do all of this. That's what I meant. :)
That said, like what @charlesdlandau said above, Kubernetes alone is just a tool and it's not as simple as just throwing a legacy application into a container and calling it a day.
Good take! I believe k8s has its place but waaay to many people with small to medium business jump on the hype train without any justification for using k8s. There is a huge gap betweeen cost and benefit in the low/medium end.