{"id":10500,"date":"2015-01-17T11:41:18","date_gmt":"2015-01-17T16:41:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=10500"},"modified":"2015-01-17T11:41:18","modified_gmt":"2015-01-17T16:41:18","slug":"something-slightly-less-terrible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/17\/something-slightly-less-terrible\/","title":{"rendered":"Something Slightly Less Terrible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.objc.io\/issue-20\/loren-brichter.html\">Loren Brichter<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.objc.io\/issue-20\/loren-brichter.html\">\n<p>It&rsquo;s not like a boat with a couple of holes that we can patch; it&rsquo;s more like trying to sail across an ocean on a pile of accrued garbage. Sure, some of the stuff floats, and it keeps some other stuff from sinking. A better question might be: which parts are good? And you can only answer that if you look at a thing in isolation. Like, I could say that Rust is good. But even that enshrines the Von Neumann philosophy, and so you can crawl your way down the stack questioning everything, which isn&rsquo;t practical.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Personally, I&rsquo;m tired of the trivial app stuff, and the App Store isn&rsquo;t conducive to anything more interesting. I think the next big thing in software will happen outside of it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Loren Brichter: It&rsquo;s not like a boat with a couple of holes that we can patch; it&rsquo;s more like trying to sail across an ocean on a pile of accrued garbage. Sure, some of the stuff floats, and it keeps some other stuff from sinking. A better question might be: which parts are good? And [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[91,286,31,71],"class_list":["post-10500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-appstore","tag-interview","tag-ios","tag-programming"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10500"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10501,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10500\/revisions\/10501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}