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what are we even talking about?
on the contrary... the only hope for the web is to break the chains of tracking and cloud centralization, both of which general web browsers built by companies (with business models) will ALWAYS serve first, not us. "User Agent" is a hypocritical joke. All those need to die.
This X post from the CEO of @Brave (@BrendanEich) is an important one: In addressing people concerned about Brave using the Chromium engine: “You need us to live to fight for a new engine later, not die on this hill now.” This is very, very smart. The reality — whether we…
most benefits that devs prefer to cite first when confronted with someone whk doubtls the benefits of types, boil down to writing "tests" in the form of types. I prefer just writing the tests as tests. yes, there are other non-tests benefits, but those are less commonly cited.
I don't need types to write code that won't work at runtime. I'm good at that on my own.
Types don't constrain what you can write. Types extend what you can write to include code that the compiler can already tell you won't work at runtime.
every single person who got covid (with or without vaccine) has had a decline in their health.
I hardly agree: everyone in my life who got the vaccine, has had a decline in health on some level.
it's more important to embrace edge-first app design where there is little to no hosting.
I think it’s important, now more than ever, to consider self hosting absolutely everything if you have the skill for it. It’s only going to get worse.
can't leak what you don't have (and didn't collect).
Tea required users to upload selfies and IDs, and collected IP addresses. This week, that data was leaked. It never should have been collected. It’s a liability. We need to stop normalizing KYC and unnecessary data collection online.
if I spend $100 post income tax dollars improving my house, and that raises my appraisal/assessment value by $1000, why should I be (property) taxed on the value increase of $1000 instead of the $100 actually spent? the assessed value is made up, not real value until I sell.
chatgpt is my new "watching youtube videos" to figure out how to do DIY things... of course it's only 75% as good. but there are no ads at least.
Hot take: Local-first doesn't mean offline-only. The best edge apps gracefully degrade when connectivity drops but leverage P2P mesh when available. Think BitTorrent for data sync, not airplane mode forever. 🌐
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it's "bold" to actively disregard known accessibility guidelines like text contrast. these moves by apple are abelist. they reduce the latent/default accessibility of their designs to look more cool ("bold") and force those pesky accessibility affordances behind clunky settings.
Liquid Glass: Apple isn't wrong, they're just early. People were not ready for a design language this bold. That's why it's been the most controversial UI redesign in years. It's been a decade since they introduced us to a flat, minimal, and blurry UX with iOS 7. Everyone…
I can't stress enough how bad this is...
LIQUID GLASS IS BACK
Added bonus: -- is used as a comment delimiter, particularly at start of line,so AI slopbots might ignore and not parse the content
I've been em-dashing with the space-delimited double-hyphen -- exactly like this -- forever. So mark my (online) writing safe from being confused with AI slop. You're not just ahead of that curve–you're defining where the curve bends.
if you're the sort of person who tends to believe what people tell you, you're likely to believe what LLMs tell you, because they're just reflecting "what people say". this is not even remotely the same as what's fact or right. it's just exaggerated bandwagoning. that's AI.
DefraDB is redefining databases for edge-first apps: P2P replication across devices Content-addressable data with verification Merkle CRDTs for conflict-free collaboration GraphQL queries that work offline The future of distributed data 🚀