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Yes, exactly: I'm not saying everyone loves to paint or cook or whatever, but that a lot of people do, and it's weird and bad for the response to this kind of article, in which som…

Unironically this: isn't writing on paper more fun than typing? Isn't painting with real paint and canvas more satisfying than with a stylus and an iPad? Isn't it more fun to make …

All right, I got nerdsniped into writing a "yes and" sort of thing even though I agree with the gist of this article :) https://macwright.com/2025/08/21/why-d3-is-so-verbose-anothe…

Development Seed did this a long long time ago in Drupal: https://web.archive.org/web/20130430031803/http://managingne... https://www.drupal.org/project/managingnews

I did consulting for the first 8 months of development, and then the company roughly broke even for operational costs since day one. I built most things myself which led to lower c…

Placemark was built around that idea - all the data is easily exportable & importable in many open formats. It should be straightforward to move to the open source version or other…

That's a fair assumption. There were some customers who benefited from real-time editing, but it was a big tech bet and led to a design that was harder to scale for larger datasets…

Yes, that's the rationale. A customer has asked about getting access to the source ahead of time and I'll try to make that work.

Personally I like both projects, as I hope I made clear in the OP - I sense that there's some history and strife here that I'm not clued into as an outsider.

[op]: Render is a web host, on which we host other applications. They offer a managed Postgres version, which is in my experience pretty similar to Heroku, RDS, or other managed da…

We switched to Clerk.dev. Thankfully we had only supported magic link auth, so there wasn't much information to migrate over. Clerk has been pretty good - they have a great Remix i…

Sure! I think Kysely is great too, but went with Drizzle for a few different reasons: Kysely is a little more established than Drizzle, which I think is one of the major reason why…

Subjective and arbitrary is exactly how the law works.

I mean, I get it, like I can't imagine being new to the scene and starting with "Unlimited Love" or something as your first listen, but of course - if you were there for the "Mothe…

The answer is: nobody knows, because nobody pays for anything with FileCoin. The services that get pointed to, like estuary, have the price of "free," and most of the incentives in…

I’m totally fine with folks trying - plenty of companies want to build self-driving cars and investors want to buy into those companies, and all that can just sort itself out and w…

I agree. My town has a certain saving grace: it’s really old. The initial town plan was made before cars, so it was, at one point, a sort of walkable place. It isn’t anymore becaus…

Sure, so the most direct answer is that a belief in self-driving cars that are safe and reliable and accessible isn’t grounded in any current evidence. We’ve spent a few billion on…

Sure, so I’m from a tiny town in New Jersey. I was used to having to drive 30 minutes to the train station as a kid, and there are no buses there, so car ownership is mandatory. To…

Really liked the post! I really admire the attitude & intention that's there – at least from an outside perspective it seems like you've made the most of the experience and sort of…