Unless you are a programmer, it mostly isn’t. Yet. However, if you are a programmer or if you want to send and receive secure messages, then it is kind of interesting. One interesting thing (for programmers) is that it gives you free encrypted git repos. That’s rad. Also, if you want to start sharing the repo with someone, that’s pretty easy, too. Another really neat-o thing is that you can send an encrypted message to a keybase user without having to figure out how to install PGP, how to integrate it with your email client, or how to look up your recipient’s PGP key. That’s pretty cool.
My evolving relationship with technology and art
Monthly Archives: April 2018
Because of Course
Today I received the April newsletter from JetBrains, wherein they provide links to a bunch of Java news. Most of it is stuff that isn’t immediately interesting to me, but this time there was a swell one-two punch. One, Java 10 is out and Java 11 has been announced (what? 9 just came out, like, a few days ago, right?). Two, JavaFX is gonna be deprecated and won’t even ship with Java 11, so if you want to build a GUI app with Java you’d better dig out all your old broken-ass Swing/AWT tools and get happy about that.
Hey, JetBrains? Would it be too much to ask you to build a nice Maven packaging plugin for your interface builder stuff, and while you’re at it, can you update your UI builder plugin so it works, again? Sheesh.
