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Apple is struggling with making Apple Intelligence super useful. Why? Because of their OS privacy and security first policy. They need to balance between being less secure and making their systems more AI-driven or sticking to their old values and not competing in an AI race.

2 examples showing how important it is to set a budget limit in the cloud platforms that we use www.reddit.com/r/Firebase/c..., www.reddit.com/r/aws/commen....

Searching through a tree doesn’t need to be O(n) in terms of the time complexity. It can be O(log n) if some conditions are met. damianmarkowski.com/2025/04/06/b...

A queue data structure gives us a possibility to efficiently (O(1) time complexity) add items to one side of a list and remove them from another one. What if we wanted to be able to add and remove them from both sides? The answer is: deque damianmarkowski.com/2025/03/23/d....

The Time Zone Database data was updated yesterday. Let’s remember that a timezone list changes several times a year, it’s not constant. www.iana.org/time-zones

I started watching Adolescence on @netflix.com and it made me think of one potentially very useful use case for AI - police reports. They have body cams, they could have mics too and some AI tool could be preparing the reports from their interventions. A lot less paperwork for them.

I just published a blog post about a binary tree data structure damianmarkowski.com/2025/03/21/b....

For example I may say that the best colour in the world is green and someone else that a blue one. Those are just opinions. How to conclude that? It's hard to do that in a fair way. That's why it's better to use data.

It's much easier and fairer to be data-driven rather than opinion-driven. People may have different opinions and data is the same for everyone looking at that.

Cursor (www.cursor.com) and Figma MCP server (github.com/GLips/Figma-...) are the first dev support AI tools that work nicely for me. I think Cursor Pro will be my only AI related subscription that I will keep paying for, at least for the upcoming few months.

There is a nice podcast episode about that product here podcasts.apple.com/pl/podcast/l....

So almost all of us know those AI models and chats that learn our digital life but there is for example www.bee.computer that learns our non-digital life and then is able to answer questions related to our real, in person life.

That's also in line with one opinion that I've heard many years ago: "Being a good developer is like signing a contract to learn new things all the time". I agree with that.

"Today, more than a quarter of all new code at Google is generated by AI, then reviewed and accepted by engineers." from blog.google/inside-googl... is kinda eye-opening for me. Writing an iOS code will become obsolete in the future so I decided to start learning Python.

I think that changes once you know how to monetise every free hour that you have.

Some people say that time is the most valuable asset we may have. Let’s say you are not talented, have no useful skills, have no job but thanks to that a lot of free time. Are you in a good position then? I wouldn’t say so.

The next chapter: Moving from Skype to Microsoft Teams   | Microsoft 365 Blog We will be retiring Skype in May 2025 to focus on Microsoft Teams (free), our modern communications and collaboration hub.  Learn more.

The end of Skype www.microsoft.com/en-us/micros... 😱

You move forward as a team. It doesn’t matter much which individual contributor implements what. Let’s remember that we build stuff for our users and they don’t know nor care if a given feature was developed by a dev A or dev B.

It doesn’t matter much if you jump on a call with someone on Skype, Google Meet, WhatsApp or Instagram - what matters is what you get out of that call. Those programs are just some potential technical tools, not a goal.

Do people remember that Amazon Prime was mainly crashing and was almost unusable in the first year? Not really. What matters is that they may enjoy the next day delivery now.

Do people think or even know what the beginnings of Netflix were? I don’t think so. They are just happy that they may enjoy watching the most trending series now.

The older and more experienced I get, the more I realise that results matter not how you get there.

That's because they introduced a Passwords app which took over some of the Keychain Access' responsibilities, the ones related to managing passwords, passkeys and other credentials but Keychain Access is still responsible for managing certificates.

It's a bit harder to find a Keychain Access app in macOS Sequoia than it used to be in the previous macOS versions. Apple moved it from "/Users/<current-user>/Applications/" to "/System/Library/CoreServices/Applications/".

How Google Maps fixed India's street name problem YouTube video by Phoebe Yu

How Google Maps solved a no street names problem in India: youtu.be/_HSYTIEXa5w.

We, as a society learnt how to do many useful, practical and smart things including flying to the other planets but we still keep passing important data (that affects money in one way or another) in the URL GET parameter values. There must be a better way to handle B2B cooperations.

Exposing the Honey Influencer Scam YouTube video by MegaLag

Honey web browser extension scam shows that we should do better in terms of passing the data in the URL GET parameter values.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vc4y...

I should be much less hands-on already but December was quite crazy, 37 PRs opened this month.

I decided to move all my Medium stories to my blog. Here's why: damianmarkowski.com/blog/2024/12....