Was he justified? Our thoughts on the dev who corrupted libraries in NPM for millions of users with his political statement about free software.

Plus how Google blew a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to control mobile messaging.

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• Dev corrupts NPM libs 'colors' and 'faker' breaking thousands of apps — The colors library receives over 20 million weekly downloads on npm alone and has almost 19,000 projects relying on it. Whereas, faker receives over 2.8 million weekly downloads on npm, and has over 2,500 dependents.
• Why Apple’s iMessage Is Winning: Teens Dread the Green Text Bubble — The reference to the color of group text messages—Android users turn Apple Inc.’s iMessage into green bubbles instead of blue—highlighted one of the challenges of her experiment. No longer did her group chats work seamlessly with other peers, almost all of whom used iPhones. FaceTime calls became more complicated and the University of Michigan sophomore’s phone didn’t show up in an app she used to find friends.
• Android on Twitter — iMessage should not benefit from bullying. Texting should bring us together, and the solution exists. Let’s fix this as one industry.
• Bartender 4 — Bartender is an award-winning app for macOS that superpowers your menu bar, giving you total control over your menu bar items, what's displayed, and when, with menu bar items only showing when you need them.
• Magnet – Window manager for Mac — Activated by dragging, customizable keyboard shortcuts or via menu bar, Magnet declutters your screen by snapping windows into organized tiles.
• Rocket – the best emoji app for Mac — Rocket is a free Mac app that makes typing emoji faster and easier using Slack-style shortcuts.

Mike has a significant moment of clarity and sets out on a new path for 2022. Meanwhile, Chris is just happy to be out of the woods.

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• Michael Dominick on Twitter — I am on the DL going to set my kid up his own PC (an old Mac mini) I'd like it to run a Kiddie flavor of #Linux and be good to before he gets. I also want 0 internet access. Is KidBuntu still a thing?

Mike finds a new normal and doubles down on what works. Chris meanwhile is stranded in the woods and is having a bit of a panic.

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• We Just Gave $154,999.89 to Open Source Maintainers — Indeed’s generous $10,000 donation to us was part of an industry initiative they launched called FOSS Fund Adopters; Microsoft and Salesforce are also on board.
• Problem solver: Tech entrepreneur excels through adaptation — For The Mad Botter, a company that relies heavily on in-person trade shows to sell its unique products and services, 2020-21 could have been disastrous. But true to form, it evolved on the fly.
• System 76 Pangolin Review - dominickm.com — My most recent dip back into the Linux desktop world has been their Pangolin laptop. It’s a 15″ laptop with a full AMD chip-set. 

We're both impressed by Rails 7 and how an old foe got us down again.

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• Rails 7.0: Fulfilling a vision — This vision wasn’t possible even just a few years ago. We simply didn’t have the core technologies in place.
• The One Person Framework — The part that really excites me about this version, though, is how much closer it brings us to the ideal of The One Person Framework. A toolkit so powerful that it allows a single individual to create modern applications upon which they might build a competitive business. The way it used to be.
• Apple Releases Swift Playgrounds 4 — The newest version of the app allows iPhone and iPad apps to be created directly on an iPad without the need for a Mac.

The broader software problem the Log4Shell vulnerability reveals, and the story of how Chris lit his Coder robe on fire... While wearing it.

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• Apple Silicon Guide — A guide covering Apple Silicon including the applications, libraries and tools that will make you a better and more efficient with your Apple Silicon powered device.
• notes.jupiterbroadcasting.com — This site is a searchable archive of the show notes for the all Jupiter Broadcasting shows. Home to the best shows on Linux, Open Source, Security, Privacy, Community, Development, and News.
• How does Jupiter Broadcasting's notes site work? — It was a normal (for 2021) Sunday evening back in July, I was minding my own business, obviously doing something super cool, when I spotted a message from a certain badger-y fellow in the Self Hosted show’s Discord
• Hackers start pushing malware in worldwide Log4Shell attacks — When the Log4j application parses these logs and encounters the string, the bug will force the server to make a callback, or request, to the URL listed in the JNDI string. Threat actors can then use that URL to pass Base64-encoded commands or Java classes to execute on the vulnerable device. 
• Microsoft quietly told Apple it was willing to turn big Xbox-exclusive games into iPhone apps — In reality, Microsoft was willing to play along with many of Apple’s demands — and it even offered to bring triple-A, Xbox-exclusive games to iPhone to help sweeten the deal.
• What’s in Apple’s iOS 15.2, iPadOS 15.2? Nude-Image Detection — In order for the feature to work, parents need to enable it on a family-sharing account. 
• Linux Action News 219: Log4Shell Coverage — The Log4Shell vulnerability is making waves this week; we'll explain why and break down how it works.

We peak in on one of the nastiest corporate moves in a while, and Chris has a big confession.

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• Miami Wants to Be Crypto Capital of U.S. - YouTube — Miami Mayor Francis Suarez, who said earlier last month he would take his next paycheck "100% in Bitcoin,"
• Relegendable keycaps for your macropad — One at work and one at home, both run QMK, firmware that allows me to program the macropad with my own shortcuts.
• Advantage2 Wired Ergonomic Keyboard for Mac & PC
• Absolute Zero has a great system for productivity — Search engines can be great for discovery of new information so long as you know how they work, but they are sorely lacking in the information recall department. One of the best productivity hacks for me to address information recall has been to use the following system.
• New York CEO fires 900 employees on Zoom call — The CEO of New York-based online mortgage lender Better.com has sacked a total of 900 employees with immediate effect during a now-viral Zoom call.
• Vishal Garg CEO of Better.com fires 900 employees over Zoom meeting - footage - YouTube
• A freelancer’s dilemma — It begins by being clear about what you own, what you’re good at it and what gives you satisfaction.
• Apple has a crafty plan to crack the business market — The company is preparing a business-only offer through which organizations will be able to get a 13-inch MacBook Air for as little as $30 a month.
• Apple Business Essentials want to help your SMB manage all your devices — Now available in beta, Apple Business Essentials offers device management, 24/7 Apple Support and iCloud storage in flexible subscription plans for small businesses with up to 500 employees.
• Use New Amazon EC2 M1 Mac Instances to Build & Test Apps for iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, and Apple TV — The availability (in preview) of EC2 M1 Mac instances lets you access machines built around the Apple-designed M1 System on Chip (SoC).
• GitHub - geerlingguy/mac-dev-playbook — This playbook installs and configures most of the software I use on my Mac for web and software development. Some things in macOS are slightly difficult to automate, so I still have a few manual installation steps, but at least it's all documented here.

Mike visits Pallet Town and comes back with some SQLAlchemy performance wisdom to share. Meanwhile, struggling with a lack of performance, Chris has kicked the tires of his new M1 Max MacBook Pro and is ready to share his counter-narrative take on the new hardware.

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• Ditto — Ditto is an extension to the Windows Clipboard. You copy something to the Clipboard and Ditto takes what you copied and stores it in a database to retrieve at a later time.
• Maccy — Maccy is a lightweight clipboard manager for macOS. It keeps the history of what you copy and lets you quickly navigate, search, and use previous clipboard contents.
• SUSE-Cafe: Personal Color scheme for KDE Plasma 5 — Coffee lovers rejoice! I'm sharing my personal color scheme. Simple, easy on the eyes, and chocolatey!

Are Linux devs getting upset with the Python community? We weigh in on a nuanced issue. Plus the mass-mod resignation over at Rust, and Mike's thoughts on setting up a dev environment on Windows 11.

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• Windows 11 - A Dev's Perspective — I was up and running with Python / FastAPI in less than a half hour. Postgresql, my database of choice, works just fine on Windows. Coder Radio listeners will know that I have been a fan of WSL for some time, however, for this challenge, I stuck with native Windows tooling. That’s right PowerShell! Upon install and launching the now built-in Windows Terminal, I was prompted to update PowerShell to PowerShell 7 and it’s great. If you only use BASH for basic terminal functionality or git from the CLI, you’ll be just fine on PowerShell.
• Python: Please stop screwing over Linux distros — I manage my Python packages in the only way which I think is sane: installing them from my Linux distribution’s package manager. I maintain a few dozen Python packages for Alpine Linux myself. It’s from this perspective that, throughout all of this turmoil in Python’s packaging world, I have found myself feeling especially put out.

We get some spicy emails, dig into why Mike just picked up another Linux laptop, and then share our real thoughts on Web3.

Plus, how we met, and why the future is probably not so bright for Apple users long-term.

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• Michael Dominick on Twitter — Hush! Nobody tell @ChrisLAS #Linux @system76
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• Web3 For Dummies — Web 3.0 generally refers to the next generation of the worldwide web. Just like Web 2.0 started from an abstract concept of sending information on an open network, Web 3.0 goes deeper into building a fairer and more transparent internet. For this reason, Web 3.0 is often associated with blockchain technology.

Microsoft has a bunch of new goodies for developers, but Mike is becoming more and more concerned about an insidious new feature.

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• Yggdrasil Screen Reader — Yggdrasil is a new project that aims to create a better Linux screen reader, written in Rust.
• Getting Started With Python On Windows 2021 Edition — Don’t Despair! This Is Gonna Be Easy! :)
• Better Open With — With so many cool Android apps, Better Open With saves you the hassle of having to choose only one default app handler when you click a filetype, and without having to choose between "only once" and "always"!
• Apple's Craig Federighi Says Sideloading on iPhone Would Open the Floodgates to Malware — Apple's software engineering chief Craig Federighi today expressed his opposition to a provision in Europe's proposed Digital Markets Act that would require the iPhone to allow sideloading of apps outside of the App Store.