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So, one of the leader companies wants to replace the major tool used by developers all around the world, but doesn't want to pay developers to do so.

They want us, external developers, to build it for $25k... But not cash. $25k of cloudflare hosting.

Why do I feel like it's the most insulting offer I have seen in a while?

Except when you have a connection and you miss it cause it's 12 min after your supposed arrival.

I think there are two main issues with trains in Germany. The first one is delays. It happens indeed more often than what I experienced with french trains, but I could handle this honestly. The second and bigger problem is that it seems like Deutsche Bahn never took their probable delays into account when planning your trip. How many times did I get a connection 15 min after my arrival? If you know your network is prone to delays, why do you keep putting travelers in this situation? Even worse, when your train is late and you miss your connection, there's not so much information about the available solutions. It always feels like it's a exceptional weird issue.

There's something a bit weird about OSM. We have the infrastructure and the idea to have a wikipedia-like map. It's insanely cool. But it's super hard to make any edit except through StreetComplete and people get asked the type of bushes they see in their street. I think the biggest priority would be to map all stores, their type and their opening hours. Right now there's nothing more reliable than Google Maps for this which forces people to use the Google Places API if they want a reliable product. I think we should have an app somewhere that is more user-friendly and focused on what most people need from a business perspective.

I don't understand how absolutely basic things are not possible on Mac OS. Switching between two windows easily, displaying hidden files in the finder... These things would be way easier to solve than building the next generation hardware.

Why do they focus so much on hardware when their biggest problem is software? I don't get it. My Dell XPS 13 is probably not that powerful in terms of performance but Linux is so much more productive. This drives me crazy

Well, at least their status page is up.

I slowly but surely lowered my expectations.

Damn That's very good

I guess I have twisted ideas

I personally avoid Go because if the if err != nil But I love the fact they have no exceptions. Rust handles this very well but it's way more complicated in general. I feel like we miss a middle ground. Maybe when Gleam becomes really popular, it could be the one?

This

I doubt any vendor would apply this. It's not in their interest. Maybe a better solution would be to have a package that's always updated and provides a list of injected env vars for each vendor. One line in zshrc or bash and you're covered (at least for those who offer a way to disable the telemetry through an env var).

Some people here say an aircraft carrier can be seen from satellites so it's not a big deal. They miss a point (as I did too): this means you can identify individuals present on the carrier, so they become vulnerable to investigation and blackmail. Another country could threaten this individual's family to give some important information or worse (sabotage).

Oh boy. Deep fakes made by an AI to blackmail you so that you finally merge their PR

How is this misleading? Not an advert. I'm not even gonna use this lib. Just interested in this: https://github.com/The-Vibe-Company/companion/blob/main/WEBS...

Same. French here. I can't stand hearing these words anymore, when at the same time I read that the French intelligence services closed a 5-year deal with Palantir.

Maybe it's because I'm French and the author is American (I guess?), but this post made me anxious.

Putting so many rules and so much science on something that should be fun and spontaneous feels so wrong to me.

Maybe a cultural thing. But I would never go to a party hosted by someone who thinks in statistical terms and uses a dedicated app to invite guests.

I admit there are a few interesting tips though. Especially the one about splitting food and drinks across the room.

Maybe 10 years ago I discovered Stumble upon, a website which allowed you to randomly get a page on the internet based on your previous likes/dislikes and interests. I absolutely loved it. You could find some very niche pages. I guess this is what Kagi Small Web tries to achieve somehow, but without the personalization.

They replaced StumbleUpon with "Mix", whatever it is. Probably because they didn't know how to earn money from it. Sad.

PHP already has a pretty good package manager. But it would be great indeed to have a tool to install different versions of the runtime, on top of a Ruff equivalent

Interesting that they always focus more on AI while their product is less and less usable. I want a usable and efficient pull request page, not useless AI features. Seems like the priorities are all wrong. The enshittification of GitHub is absolutely dramatic.

GitHub, Facebook, Reddit, Instagram (on the web)... All these major websites are becoming incredibly hard to use. My intuition would be "SPA crap" but I'm pretty sure you can make great and snappy SPAs. What am I missing?

This.

We definitely need a better stdlib with appropriate data structures

You can write it this way. The parameter name is arbitrary. And no, to my knowledge you can't access the var from the previous scope

They're not though.

array_filter takes (arr, callback)

https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.array-filter.php

array_map takes (callback, arr)

https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.array-map.php

I'm quite surprised that the article doesn't mention Laravel.

PHP as a language? Definitely getting better but still not great. Doesn't support async, the stdlib is awful, data structures are quite rudimentary (no tuple, no list, no map, just a weird array type mixing maps and lists), the old extension system sucks.

But the ecosystem? Damn. I see many people here saying that Typescript is definitely the mature choice for the backend. Honestly, I wanted to believe it, but I disagree. The level of productivity with Laravel is absolutely insane. You have everything you need out of the box and you can launch something so fast it's almost unreal.

Typescript doesn't have that. Maybe it's because of a different mentality in this ecosystem (you should build your blocks yourself), but nothing comes close. The closest would be Adonisjs but it doesn't seem to gain traction.

You don't choose a language to build your web project. You choose a stack. A framework. I definitely prefer python but Django has way less features than Laravel and I don't really enjoy using it. Typescript on the backend was a thing I wanted to believe in (because sharing types between the front and back is a great idea), but I feel like I have to reinvent the wheel, or at least choose 20 different wheels to do something quite simple.

Is Ruby such a great language, or do people just love being productive with Rails? It seems to me that the usage of Ruby without Rails is quite low (I could be wrong).

People choose and stick with stacks, not just languages. And I couldn't find something equivalent to Laravel elsewhere. Give me an equally productive stack and I'll happily drop PHP.

I have never said French was a standard regarding pizzas. Read my message again. I'm just saying that maybe the proportion of aficionados of pineapple pizzas varies from country to country.

It also probably depends on the country. As a French person I never met anyone who thought it was a good idea. I also don't think I have ever seen a pizza with pineapple in a good pizza restaurant. Only in bad fast food restaurants. I guess it's quite different in the US.

Makes me think that I would love to have an AI tool that not only allows autocomplete but also provides suggestions while I write code. "Have you thought about using useCallback here?" "This feature seems already provided by library X and Y" "It seems like this code already exists in function Foo. Maybe a small refactoring would be helpful"

You might be surprised. I can assure you it happened. And my friend is a 35yo physiotherapist who uses a website on a daily basis to manage her appointments. I guess what was confusing to her was the fact that it was not just a "simple" website where you would find information (blogs, Wikipedia, whatever). It was something where you would say something and it would respond dynamically. As a software engineer, we know there's no difference. It's just a few POST endpoints anyway. For a user without technical background? The way I described it sounded like it should be an app.

Now, you would say that these people (35yo) used to use Facebook (and maybe Google meet) and such on desktop. So they should know that many things can be achieved through a browser. But it seems like when thinking about mobile, people think differently. A website that "does something" other than displaying information (which is a weird and blurry definition) must be an app. I'm absolutely sure my friend has never thought it could be possible to use Facebook on through her mobile browser. If you access something with your mobile, it must be through an app.