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There’s nothing unreasonable about HTML being effective at what it was designed for.

Very cool, but I think the user's cursor should be a different shape/color from the others. I frequently tried to move a neighboring cursor by mistake.

Remember when programming was fun? To me, after the novelty of seeing a computer program execute (more or less) what I ask in plain English wears off, what’s left is the chore of m…

Also, not everything is a competition that needs to be won.

React (and Tailwind for that matter) are great for hiring and getting hired. The chances of someone screwing it up or being lost in their first week/month when parachute into a pro…

> crypto (via stablecoins) is easier/faster/better than the status quo ante. It must be ignorance on my part or perhaps I’m just lucky with residency and clients, but I get paid th…

Funny. I don’t need to work hard for that at all. It comes naturally to me. It obviously has its pros and cons, but to me, a shiny new tech has to prove itself first in order to de…

Hopefully there will be careers for people in 20 years.

> 4 BRL (aprox 1 USD) I wish. That's off by 50%

> Brazil’s fusty banking That's precious coming from an US publication, a country where checks are still used.

I’m also unease about the open-source-but-not-really VSCode situation. I don’t know how useful an editor you can build from the available source, which is enough for me to not cons…

It’s a know phenomenon. A friend of mine had a reasonably important public office position. Always on the phone, constantly demanded, giving interviews, etc. The first few months a…

It's very modern CSS.

True, it’s just that the original quote is hard swallow. Try melting sand and polishing your own lenses and compare that to a US$ 5 glass.

> We all know that custom, hand-made, artisan-crafted, boutique tools are always better than something factory made. Right. We all know the best chips in the world are made by loca…