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Can you go into that a little more - the switch to Golang and the old version being too slow?

What book?

While stretching most definitions of "periodical", Wait But Why https://waitbutwhy.com/ is one of my favorites!

Awesome tool! How do you handle scraping data that's hiding behind layers of ~fancy~ JS libraries? Is it as simple as triggering click events, pausing for loading, and then grabbing the information?

I believe you're spot on. Training and being used to it is what I'd describe as an unfortunate reality. It reminds me of a few startups that I've seen who've created novels in the format of text message conversations to provide the content of a book in the format we've been trained for. I've definitely felt like my attention span isn't what it used to be when it comes to reading.

A large source of power for social media is that it is a 'pushing' force - it constantly is throwing notifications and other stimuli at you.

A book, on the other hand, does not share that same strength in power. But it has gotten better in pushing (i.e. Goodreads, Kindle, etc.).

Social media is also more consumable. It's easy to read a few posts while you're waiting for a few minutes in line or something. With a book, it takes time to get up and going with the story as well as hitting an appropriate stopping point.