Apple vs open web, right to repair

Advocating for the future of the open web with Alex & James Moore from the OWA (JS Party #316)

Open Web Advocacy (OWA) talk about the critical work the OWA has been doing to ensure users have browser choice and that web apps can be first-class citizens on mobile devices.

recent events with Apple and their DMA (un)compliance

Apple backs off killing EU web apps (Changelog News #84)


We have a right to repair! with Kyle Wiens, Founder and CEO at iFixit (Changelog Interviews #582)

Kyle Wiens, Founder and CEO at iFixit, about all things Right to Repair. They discussed the latest win here in the US with Oregon passing an electronics Right to Repair law to allow owners the right to get their stuff fixed anywhere as well as limit the anti-repair practices of parts pairing.

data tools: Delta Lake, Lakehouse, Parquet (free book)

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Delta Lake: Up & Running by O’Reilly | Databricks

What is Apache Parquet?
Apache Parquet is an open source, column-oriented data file format designed for efficient data storage and retrieval. It provides efficient data compression and encoding schemes with enhanced performance to handle complex data in bulk

Apache Parquet - Wikipedia

Demystifying the Parquet File Format | by Michael Berk | Towards Data Science

parquet-wasm - npm

parquetjs - npm

Business of Higher Education future? "unbundling"

universities / colleges are 12 business in one... many problems (for society)

Crisis in Higher Ed & Why Universities Still Matter - YouTube discussion by a16z co-founders 

solution: "un-bundle"

Netscape famously "unbundled" PC apps and created future (and fortune)

Andreessen Horowitz - Wikipedia (= "a16z")

Marc Andreessen - Wikipedia

Ben Horowitz - Wikipedia

Bundling, unbundling, and re-bundling: understanding the cycle of progress | by Satyajit Rout | Medium

“How do you know that Microsoft isn’t just going to bundle a browser into their product?” [Context: Netscape’s flagship product, a web browser, was a standalone product. Microsoft was the market leader in the PC operating system segment.]

In a rush, Barksdale responded, “Gentlemen, there’s only two ways I know of to make money: bundling and unbundling.”

Most people are wrong: What is truth? | Marc Andreessen and Lex Fridman - YouTube