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Some people tend to forget that you got to start somewhere, and a lot of huge undertakings started this way. Such as Linux ;-

It turns out public money is more expensive these days. Debt is a more mainstreamly exposed problem.

Same path & agreed. The amount of things you do not have to care about with BEAM/Elixir compared to Rails is really interesting.

Yes, massive respect for that type of perseverance on long term, important changes.

It is one of these instances where « let the market decide » is not necessarily the best option on the long run.

Afaik the system is being consolidated https://epicompany.eu/media-insights/ideal-to-phase-into-wer... « iDEAL will begin rebranding to iDEAL | Wero in 2026 »

Artificial scarcity + the urge to impose fashion cycles, sadly

It feels like we have reached the Turbo Pascal era, but only compiled to the browser.

And sometimes, like in Sharepoint, the process could not be completed.

That backdoor is so up front about it. We might as well call it a frontdoor.

Unless regulations explicitely incorporate how to handle incumbents & newcomers. One instance of that is MMTIS (multi modal passenger information), which explicitly states innovati…

At the anecdata level, you are right. At the global level, let’s say it is a bit different.

There’s a strong narrative that it’s unreasonable to stay in the EU (“too regulated”, etc.) if you want to hack on real stuff. Yet plenty of us do — Bellard being exhibit A.

LLM use is very solid here. I have been shipping some fairly cool stuff for different clients, just like if I was managing a team of 3 or 4 people. The stable nature of the languag…

Thanks!

BYD has cars supporting this afaik. And working in the electrical charging point data sector at the moment, we see that fast charge is a breaking point to make people decide the sw…

You can have well-integrated applicative workflows (eg: progress report on a permalink in your front end app), app-restart-proof resumable workflows, and it avoids adding an extra …

I started migrating to FastMail years ago, but never got to switch in full yet, because in my case with a public email address, the level of unhandled spam is too high. Did you mee…

US clouds offer are featureful not first because it is useful, but because it is the best way to ensure vendor lock-in. A lot of implementors are now realizing that you can achieve…

A lot of people actually are. I am running multiple apps on EU-based clouds offers (most PaaS rather than VPS), to the tune of multiple billion queries per year. The offer really h…

Neat. Now I need Quarto, but with Elixir and Livebook!

To address that, a long while back I used a Markdown to Ruby Prawn to PDF generator. I could not find a generic mainstream tool supporting this…

Beware it does not export to docx/libreoffice format. So not usable in the exact same situations. https://typst.app/docs/web-app/export-and-preview/

Somehow related is https://www.metanorma.org/ (using Markdown to produce norms-compatible outputs).