The “No Code” applications phenomena
Software development tools have enabled more people, with less training, to develop software solutions. Few topics garner cheers and groans quite as quickly as the no-code software explosion. While investors…
Rant: Apple’s “Forget your password” pain in the ass
If you forget a password with Apple products, you have a choice: Receive a code sent to “your other Apple devices” (this means you must own more than one Apple…
Smart phone Covid-19 contact tracing apps accomplishing little
In May, a report said Iceland had achieved the largest penetration of any virus-tracking app, with 38% of its 364,000 inhabitants installing it. But the Iceland app, which collected people’s…
Japan pulls its coronavirus tracking smartphone app due to software design errors
The Japanese government has pledged to fix within a week bugs that have caused its coronavirus contact-tracing smartphone app to be shut down, the health minister said Tuesday. The free…
Tech companies are going big on remote workforces … but this may be bad for future American workers
Companies switching to remote workforces will probably hire more staff overseas, outside the U.S. Source: Twitter, Apple, Google and Facebook employee work changing amid Covid This puts offshoring on steroids…
Contact tracing apps do not track surface and air contacts across time
First: India mandates workers use COVID-19 tracing app, France rolls out tracing tool and other tracking efforts | MobiHealthNews The WSJ also reports that China’s health tracking app will be…
“Low code” app development surges amongst pandemic
The shift to remote work has led some companies to come up with quick digital solutions for tasks that have become hard to tackle during the coronavirus pandemic. Source: Emptying…
Experts criticize ICL’s Ferguson’s Covid SIM model as garbage
Those of us who have seen Neil Ferguson’s ICL Covid sim model have the same views as this computational epidemiologist: As Ferguson himself admits, the code was written 13 years…
ICL Covid-simulation source code
I will not comment on Covid-19 and only make a few comments on the publicly available source code. This is not a comment about whether models should be used –…
Software: Why hiring professional software engineers might have been a good idea #IowaCaucus
Oh my: It wasn’t so much that the new app that the Iowa Democratic Party had planned to use to report its caucus results didn’t work. It was that people…