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Elixir + Phoenix (+ Svelte via live_svelte if you need very very real time stuff). Has everything you need and none of the BS that is the JS ecosystem. :)

Yes? Not seeing any issues on Safari, Chrome or Firefox on MacOS. Maybe you have some extension that's acting up?

It really isn't 'miles' ahead of the competition. If anything it is way behind. For example, look at Varjo: https://varjo.com/products/xr-4/

This is dope! Very cool to see more Nostr applications that aren't just Twitter clones.

100% agree

Back when Svelte Native was created it was pretty much endores by the maintainers, there's even a channel for it on the official Svelte Discord :)

Not sure what you built but for anyone interested in going down this venue there's a blog post by a Svelte Ambassador that you can read here: https://khromov.se/how-i-published-a-gratitude-journaling-ap...

I have a hard time seeing how Bluesky/ATProto is more pragmatic than Nostr. Can you elaborate?

Most likely you’ll need to do accounting in the EU country since that is the de facto place of business (your office). That is in addition to whatever US accounting. Not ideal.

I feel like Meetup has always been a somewhat bad product. Stuck in the early 00's. When they started charging crazy amounts to organize a meetup I got sick of them.

Recently we've been using https://guild.host to manage most of our Svelte Society meetups.

Why would it be a travesty to bring electricity to those that do not have it?

Nah, it’s unnecessary- you can do everything in Kit, adding a pure backend would just add extra work for no reason.

Kit is built for serverless so you won’t have any issues with scaling.

Smaller and faster :)

Until you can solve the climate crisis with batteries alone you need other solutions to step-in in the meantime.

Also, batteries don't help when the electricity is in the middle of nowhere and not connected to the grid.

It's mainly the fact that Bitcoin mining sets a price floor on electricity prices. It's a buyer of last resort. Without it you'll get negative electricity prices and less investment in renewables.

See for example what Ercot has to say about Bitcoin mining: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKnRfDeFgr0

I don't think it does at all.

Burning methane has positive effects on global warming since methane is way way waaaaaaay worse than CO2. Taking care of landfills that are largely untouched, just spewing methane is a good thing. If Bitcoin ends up having a net-negative effect on global warming, how is that a bad thing?

You're assuming that all energy sources are well-connected to a grid that can handle the electricity that is generated, that's not the case at all. You can't "use that same energy for something else currently on carbon-based sources" without major infrastructure costs.

People should switch to SimpleX instead: https://simplex.chat

That article is full of misinformation and has been debunked multiple times. Even the hero image is doctored to make it look smoggy and polluted. [0]

Bitcoin mining is great for the Texas grid. Miners end up buying cheap excess energy and when there is a shortage they just turn off their miners, keeping the price from going haywire.

Here's the CEO of Ercot explaining: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKnRfDeFgr0

[0]: https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/did-the-new-york-times-m...

It also linked to the GitHub releases page originally, I literally posted this as it went love on the Svelte blog, not sure what’s going on :)

@dang You marked the wrong one as dupe?

Now we lost pretty much all the comments and most of the momentum :(

Most folks would probably say "it's faster" but I think the real upside of using Svelte is the DX. It's just massively simpler and way easier to be productive.

If someone is working as a contractor under employment like terms then that person is, in many countries, considered an employee and what you’re doing is illegal.

We had an awesome submission for a hackathon we ran for the Svelte community: https://chad-rpg.vercel.app

It will be open sourced soon according to the creators.

Good alternative: https://keet.io

I think this time actually is different. For the first time ever we now have a currency that is controlled by no one, with no third party risk, that can be sent in seconds across the world. It's called Bitcoin.

Regular end user…. docker-compose? We have very different concepts of what a regular user is. Surely, generating a key pair must be infinitely more easy than setting up docker?

Can’t you just follow people that don’t talk about it? There’s no algorithmic feed that feeds you stuff you don’t want

Sure, but that's a completely separate issue.

This is what we in the Bitcoin ecosystem call an "Affinity Scam". Make it sound like something it isn't to capitalize on the hype.

It's honestly quite sad :(