Linked List: March 2, 2022

Wednesday, 2 March 2022

Miguel de Icaza Is Leaving Microsoft 

Mary Jo Foley, reporting for ZDNet:

Well-known open source advocate and developer Miguel de Icaza, who joined Microsoft in 2016 when it acquired Xamarin, the mobile-tool company he cofounded, is leaving Microsoft. De Icaza — a Microsoft distinguished engineer — confirmed to me on March 2 that he has decided to leave and will be taking some time off before moving to a new job. [...]

When I asked what he planned to do next, de Icaza told me “I am going to rest while the kids are in school” and later vacation with them. “Living in this industry is like the kid at the candy store - too many things are happening and there are too many choices. So I want to spend some time sampling some of the candy, and then deciding which one I want to buy a pound of,” de Icaza said.

De Icaza is a great follow on Twitter, and had an interesting appearance on Rene Ritchie and Guy English’s Debug podcast back in 2015, before Microsoft acquired Xamarin. Whatever he does next, I’ll bet it’s going to be interesting.

Panic’s Playdate SDK Is Out 

Documented APIs for both Lua and C, design recommendations and guidelines, a bitmap font editor, and more. And don’t forget that they shipped Pulp, their web-based all-in-one game-making environment for Playdate.

‘Peek Performance’ – Apple Event Next Tuesday 

Jason Snell, on the “Peek Performance” Apple event next week:

At least we only have a few days to wait to find out. But, as silly and dad-jokey as “peek performance” is as a concept, I have to admit that it’s increased my anticipation for the event. So… mission accomplished, I suppose. We’ll see if next week’s event can deliver on that slogan’s promise.

Like Snell, I don’t want to waste too much time trying to guess what the event name means, but performance makes me think we’re getting the larger iMac (“iMac Pro”?). As for peek, I have no idea — I doubt there’s any major camera-related news and it feels even more doubtful that Apple’s rumored VR headset is getting announced now, so I’ll just go with “sometimes a pun is just a pun”. Update: For peek — maybe new standalone displays? Or is that just wishful thinking?