kylegill

It's times like these where I realize how important it is for me to take myself out of my little tech bubble and have some empathy for all the people using the stuff supported by the crappy code I write.

I agree with what the article mentions, and think the concept of the Great American Novel [0] gives the Great Gatsby wings and leads to it being more _popular_ than it perhaps is _understood_.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_American_Novel

This looks sort of like a Plex for music, and in a way (if you use some creative thinking) a self hosted Audius [1], neat!

I've been thinking about how I'd do this to ditch my library on what was Google Play Music and is now YouTube Music.

[1]: https://audius.co/

Of all the interesting points brought up by this article, my favorite part was the link to the Pirate Bay's launch of a submarine to host its servers.

...dated April 1.

This sounds very Kansas! I grew up there and now live in Utah.

Every time I've gone back I'm reminded just how much the midwest is full of people who are good, friendly, and look out for each other.

My friend told me at their company they'd commonly convene the "variable naming committee" for such occasions, and I can't help but think of it every time I find myself in the same place.

I visited a friend's family dairy farm in a little town in Utah a few months back and it was quite a change from the tech bubble I tend to dwell in.

I think this article reads pretty fair to the mindset of my friend's family too. My friend's family has been dairy farmers for generations, and their dad loves the hard work seemingly because it's turned into a part of his identity. They've started seeing the writing on the wall and have picked up other crops and animals to "diversify their portfolio" a little.

My machine learning professor would always remind us that 50% is analogous to random chance in a binary decision, but in a model where the prediction is not so black and white, 66% doesn't sound half bad!

This is really exciting to me for a lot of reasons. So much of the web runs WordPress and giving another modern tool on top of it makes it feel like WordPress won't become an artifact of a bygone era—especially as more and more companies adopt headless WP.

Something I love about Hacker News is how the fun corners of the internet like this always manage to find their way to the front page and I don't even need to look for them.

This is (unsurpisingly) a difficult problem to solve. I've been trying to help my colleague at Gatsby (a React based framework that uses static site generation) with improvements to the image optimization API Gatsby includes with its image plugins.

Just when you think you've handled every edge case, you have to account for screen pixel densities, better ways to infer sizes and srcSet attributes on picture tags, browsers with or without modern features for loading images in better.. it's no small task!

(I'm obviously biased but I think Gatsby's solution is pretty good now)

I like to think of Technical Debt like an accountant or CFO would think about Financial Debt.

It provides leverage to incur debt at early stages, incur too much and it can really come back to bite, but a startup that incurs no debt will struggle to grow.

I suspected (perhaps like you) that this article was going to be about free hosting providers (Netlify and the likes). When I saw it was Disqus/Facebook/Twitter I wasn't too surprised. I also host a lot of projects "for free" (TM) on Netlify, Firebase, etc. and don't tend to include any 3rd party scripts.

It makes me wonder if some form of data (anonymous or not) scraped from folks like Netlify is slated to be sold off to advertisers or SaaS products looking to find customers. As they do things like process your HTML they could pull out textual content looking for signals.