Hey linker, can you spare a meg?
tailscale.comTailscale on iOS runs as a special kind of app, a Network Extension. This lets us run in the background, so we can secure traffic from all of your applications, without them having to change anything. But with this power comes a memory straightjacket. Normal iOS apps can use 5GB or so of memory before iOS kills them. We get 15MB. With an “M”.
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In the two years since I’ve posted I want off Mr Golang’s Wild Ride, it’s made the rounds time and time again, on Reddit, on Lobste.rs, on HackerNews, and elsewhere. And every time, it elicits the ...
I’ve already posted about gomobile on this blog: “Using gomobile for real”. For a lot of people it seems crazy to run Go on iOS and Android for some others it’s just routine, Zenly & Tailscale to name a few. Since I’m reviving the idea for a geo database on iPhone here are some details. I’ve started to port spatialite with the required dependencies to realize most of them were LGPL and incompatible with iOS distribution, so I went back to a simple solution using Go to display points on a map from a local database.