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Svelte will never overtake react. It won’t even overtake Vue.

bdloweryon uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store

Person who resembles 0.000001% of the internet userbase complains on hacker news.

More news at 7.

bdloweryon Running an open source app: Usage, costs and community donations

https://f5bot.com/ was free for like 8 years and it processed hundreds of thousands of db records a day, and it barely cost anything.

bdloweryon 'Students who use AI as a crutch don't learn anything'

You skipped all the hard parts, all the struggling, and now you have a working product without a mental model and can't level up to doing harder things on your own. Struggling IS learning. You didn't try different paths, piece different info together, and then eventually create a mental model. You just used ChatGPT to skip to the end result.

It's like enrolling for a Calc 2, cheating on all the homework to get an A, and saying "did i learn anything? No, but it solved all of these annoying homework problems for me!" Now when you have to take the 1st exam you're screwed because you didn't learn anything.

bdloweryon macOS Sequoia is available today

bdloweryon A live ranking of airlines by how much luggage they are losing

Let's be honest, how likely is that going to happen?

"There's 102 people who die in a car accident everyday. Someone could have just been struck by lightning while driving and skewed the statistics so that number isn't entirely accurate"

cmon bruh

bdloweryon Tesla's FSD – A Useless Technology Demo

> The Waymo cars drive themselves without (in person) supervision. As best as I can tell from three rides, they do it perfectly.

I drove in a Tesla with FSD 12.4 3 times and it was perfect.

it doesn’t mean anything.

bdloweryon YouTube embeds ads into videos to beat ad blockers

Don’t do this. Google will ban your account. My friends have done this before in video games and have gotten their accounts perma banned months / years later.

bdloweryon Keylogger discovered in image generator extension

I haven’t looked at the source code of a single npm package I’ve installed in the past 5 years.

“It takes a few minutes”

Dude my web dev projects have like 1,000s of dependencies. I’m not going to check the source code of every package tailwind requires.

bdloweryon Bluesky first cross-post from Threads

The best thing about blue sky is it’s completely dead, so you get a pseudo echo chamber.

bdloweryon Signal: Will leave the EU market rather than undermine our privacy guarantees

The EU is a joke. Regulating themselves into obscurity.

bdloweryon Kevin Costner's $38M Horizon Gamble

38% is awful on rotten tomatoes

bdloweryon Anonymous Source Shared Leaked Google Search API Documents

How is it a violation of privacy. Did you read the terms of service?

bdloweryon The Internet Archive is under a DDoS attack

Nah. Just don’t do anything illegal and you’re good

bdloweryon Tesla 'self-driving' technology failed to detect a moving train ahead of a crash

You’re forgetting that there is a person behind the wheel that should be paying attention. It’s the drivers fault 100%.

bdloweryon The deskilling of web dev is harming us all

> I try not to use any framework at all

Aka “I like living in 1999”

Lol

bdloweryon eu/acc

Compare the us tech companies in the s&p 500 to the eu tech companies.

It’s not even close man.

bdloweryon VLC: App Stores Were a Mistake

Step 1: stop using 14 year old devices

Like dude, a 14 year old pc would suck today. A 14 year old laptop would suck today. A 14 year old phone would suck today.

bdloweryon Catalyst – Tailwind CSS Application UI Kit

I would not expect something labeled as “v0.1.0” as supposed to be finished.

Weird unproductive comment tbh.

bdloweryon Catalyst – Tailwind CSS Application UI Kit

Yes. You missed the part where it said v0.1.0

bdloweryon Firefox Keeps Getting Faster

Apple used to have a 4% market share (and declining) of the PC industry before Jobs came back, and was seen as a joke and failure of a company because of it.

But, it’s okay for Firefox to own 2-3% market share?

bdloweryon Half-Life 25th Anniversary Update

I don’t think you’re gonna make it my guy

bdloweryon Being picky about a CSS reset for fun

You use a css reset and then apply your own styles…

The whole point is to make everything look the same across every browser in existence. Also to remove collapsing margins.

bdloweryon Being picky about a CSS reset for fun

Because collapsing margins are annoying. Doing this removes that. All you have to do is just use margin-top or margin-bottom on them.

bdloweryon Not setting up Find My bricked my MacBook

Because Apple makes the best laptops for “programming”, their battery lasts for over 16 hours of straight use, and they’re extremely fast.

The days of Apple having bad laptops ended with the M1 chip

bdloweryon My solopreneur story

Clean shot is exactly like xnapper but better in every single aspect

bdloweryon Svelte 5: Runes

The vue 3 composition api syntax. Very clean

bdloweryon “Inverse vaccine” shows potential to treat MS and other autoimmune diseases

Tell me you don’t know anyone with an autoimmune disease without telling me.

Go talk to people with autoimmune diseases and then report back. There’s a good chance you’ll end up deleting your comment

bdloweryon Things I wish I knew before moving 50K lines of code to React Server Components

“This technology we heavily rely on is completely changing the way it works. Should we update now and get into the ecosystem?”

“Nah, this guy on hacker news said we’re dumb hipsters for adopting the new normal for react. We should stay on the old versions.”

That’s like saying you don’t trust a company because they updated from PHP 5 to PHP 8.2

bdloweryon Scrum is a cancer

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37134050

> Not everybody knows that, but Scrum was invented to manage a team of dysfunctional COBOL programmers at a bank, not for product-led tech companies, and certainly not for startups.

> If you're mostly hiring juniors, low-skilled, unpassionate, unable to work autonomously without constant handlholding, reactive instead of proactive people, then you'll certainly need some micromanaging SDLC like Scrum.