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> Everybody works but the vacant lot. I paid $3600 for this lot and will hold 'till I get $6000. The profit is unearned increment made possible by the presence of this community and enterprise of its people. I take the profit without earning it. for the remedy read Henry George.

- Billboard posted in an empty lot, Rockford Illinois, 1914

Along with the training wheels analogy, Ram Dass also said, (badly paraphrased), "To remove a thorn from your foot, you use another thorn – then you throw them both away, or you'll likely get pricked again."

If I closed my eyes and designed the API first, it would look like the `/pages` convention – just add state "slice" files in `/store` (like `src/store/user.ts`) and then use either React hooks inside the component (like `useStore` or `useMutation`) or use something (like `getServerSideState`) on the server.

Your state "slices" would export initial state, types (optionally), and an object containing getters, setters, and mutations (using Vuex concepts).

I totally understand. The old Redux adage is "don't use it until you need to". Most apps won't need a big, opinionated state management – but when you do, it's nice having something robust, verbose, opinionated, and rails or django-like.

Hey Lee, thank you for all your work! Big company here in Portland, and we just went all in on Next.js – so far our development speed has increased, and junior devs are easily onboarded.

One request would be an official state management extension – coming from Vue and Vuex, this is something I miss. We're currently using Redux Toolkit, but would be great to have something official for Next along the lines of Vuex, Reframe, or Elm.

* update (writing this between lots of meetings :| )

One huge value we get from Next is the opinions and conventions. Large dev teams benefit from this – which is why we've been using Ember and Ember Data for years, and Rails before that.

Having an opinionated state management that plays nicely with Next on the client AND the server is what I'd like to see. We're doing quite a few workarounds currently with Redux to support managing state from within the components and during `getServerSideProps`. If all my dreams came true, it would be nice to persist state conditionally in Redis or Mongo.

Sorry for the rambling thoughts – just loving Next, and incredibly busy building our new core IP with it.

I really like your argument concerning reasoning – especially considering how we can experiment with the "shadows" of four dimensional shapes in VR. Science, research, reasoning – all very likely to be revolutionized with VR.

But in daily life – always on – I believe AR will be as common as putting on shoes to protect our soft feet.

> Man riding a bicycle was twice as [efficient] as the condor - way off the end of list [compared to all other animals]. And what it really illustrated was mans ability as a toolmaker, to fashion a tool that can amplify an inherent ability that he has.

> That's exactly what we think we're doing here – we think we're basically fashioning a 21st century bicycle here, which can amplify an inherent intellectual ability that man has and really take care of a lot of drudgery to free people to do much more creative work.

My takeaway of this perspective really illuminates the value of augmented reality (AR) over virtual reality (VR). The escapism of VR is fine for entertainment, but amplifying our understanding of the real-time real world with AR is very exciting as a species.

I "waste" a lot of money on Roblox - $30-40/mo. It's where all my kids friends are, and it's a safe space on the internet that I trust as a parent. They build theme parks, space stations, small businesses – it's amazing, silly, and safe.

Very cool demo! And also nice to know my laptop fans still work. (2019 MBP 16", Chrome v84)

Consumers want electronic starters on their chainsaws – but they're less reliable, prone to error, more expensive, etc... in the end, us engineers gotta make products that people will buy.

Thanks for the reminder! Sometimes the meaning of these colloquialisms are diluted or lost.

> We will all be serfs (NPCs) in a feudal corporate cosplay.

Perfect.

>Programming the WorldWideWeb client was remarkably easy on the NeXT. There was already a software module, the Text Object, which was an editable multifont editor. I just had to subclass it to make a hypertext object, and add the internet code. Designing the app’s menus was trivial — just drag and drop with InterfaceBuilder. The code framework of the app was generated automatically. That is a platform: something which allows you to build things which without it would have been possible, but a lot of work.

Strange to think what the web would've been if Berners-Lee didn't have such a strong platform and tooling to build his ideas with.

>$16,000/mo, enough to cover his salary along with his new hire

That's $192k, pre-tax, between two people and likely infrastructure and tooling costs. Most developers of You's skill earn nearly double that at FAANG companies.

>On the one hand, and for the most part, people have expressed an urge to restore certainty ... Politically speaking, citizens have looked to strong leaders for containment and control, a phenomenon some call the “authoritarian reflex.” And the uncertainty vacuum has been filled by conspiracy theories, war rhetoric, the denial of scientific facts, and an increase in surveillance measures.

Interesting take on the rise of authoritarianism around the world.

Completely normal phenomenon

I've spent most of my career as a front end developer. We have three tools in our toolbox: HTML, CSS, and Javascript. We need them all and will push each to the extreme to create better experiences for our users and reimagine what the web can become.

I also work in the healthcare space with heavy HIPAA security requirements. Like any language/framework/platform there are best practices to follow for solid security and performance, and a good secops team should set meaningful requirements.

In short, I will show a "This site requires Javascript enabled" message 100% of the time if my site requires Javascript.

The season finale of 2020 sounds terrifying.

Exact same. Although I did have a kid - three of them. No change. Still most productive between midnight at 4am.

A server can issue a JWT and forget about it. Most cookie auth strategies requires the server to persist the token to confirm validity. Also, a JWT can work across a microservice architecture easily for the same reasons.

I can't believe it doesn't even define what JSON means... JavaScript Object Notation

I wonder how much of this is due to Scott Galloway. He's been brutal on We Company and Adam Neumann for weeks now.

I'll confess that my last visit was in 2015, but I've never felt crowded there during my many visits. And of course, a "zero limits" model is not what anyone wants, nor what I'm advocating.

I think this goes against the initial concept of the US National Parks. It's owned by the people, and meant to be seen and experienced at any time.

There are days that I needed to be recharged emotionally and could drive to Yosemite Valley and sit on a rock and listen to the wind. Yes, there we lots of people, but the quiet and calm was respected and maintained.

Perhaps a better solution would be stronger consequences to those who violate trash, light, and sound pollution or those who damage the wildness intentionally.

But people need to have the freedom to visit these places on a whim.

This was the kick in the pants I needed to finally subscribe. Thanks.

Same. Coda v1 was my first step into development, and I still compare editors (VSCode, Sublime) to it.

I really miss the micro-IDE space that Coda occupied – not quite VS Code and not quite WebStorm – and I hope Nova is the same.

Go Panic!

>RF Seismograph showed an increase in noise on 80 meters some 13 hours beforehand, as well as some propagation changes on 40 and 30 meters — low before the quake and increasing in its wake.

Hours. Hours beforehand. Having that much preparation would be life-saving. Especially for us living near the Cascadia Subduction Zone.

I just send my dad an apology as well.

During my last sideways Netflix/cheeto/mayo binge I thought – magsafe on both sides?

I like to believe that he succeeded and that Anne is now a little boy in Spain.