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I'm very worried with all this bullshit around TVs.

I've been running the same Samsung UE40C6530 since 2010. It's 16 f'ng years and the thing works flawlessly like the first day. No other electronic device in my life worked so well, during so long.

But I'm about to move to a new home, and it feels like it's about time to get something more modern, at least a 4k TV.

But I'm honestly totally lost at what to buy. I do not want a "Smart" tv that's slow to start, bloated with crap, installing updates every day, and maybe even spying on me.

I want a plain, old, normal TV. If possible without Android or any advanced operating system. Just a TV. I'll plug external content myself, either via a Chromecast device, or something similar. I don't want my TV to be a full fledged computer.

Is there such a thing? What would you buy nowadays? It seems you're forced to get yet another computer to maintain and be worried about whatever you buy.

Proof of not being built with React: It's fast.

Proof: site design

So you don't have a redundant server until $1marr?

That means you also don't apply updates to the server/kernel that require a reboot until then? Or you accept the downtime? And what happens if it doesn't boot properly?

And what do you do when you need more than one server, for redundancy or scaling to more servers?

When are we getting GOTCHA (whatever it does)?

Use brave. I've been using it for the last...I don't know... 6 years? Internet is unusable for me without it. It even makes YouTube usable again.

There’s a reason Nordic countries do so well and are a real “first world”. They’re smart. In the good sense.

Just use Brave. For me internet is unusable without it.

Finance initiative: Undo the Microsoft purchase

A big part of the problem IS Microsoft acquisition. They forced them to move to Azure, which is terrible.

Around 8 years ago I was working for a company that they also acquired, and they also forced us to move to Azure. Performance was terrible and our system wasn’t just working there as it should. A few years later our service was dead and all customers moved to one of their office products.

You’re not alone. They are terrible. For some reason they want them to look like an “app”.

It was even worse a few months ago when the background was constantly changing colors. Fortunately enough people complained and they removed it.

They should have also built a fault tolerant toilette.

I wanted to subscribe and I can't! How do you expect to make any money if that doesn't work?!!1

Comparing these tools to the crypto or NFTs hype is so out of touch with reality.

This is more on the scale of the invention of the press, the telegraph, or the internet itself.

"I'm ok being left behind, I will join this Internet thing when it really becomes useful"...

Ok... you do you. Hope you don't get there too late.

Some people need ways to cope with the drawbacks of what they use, even if irrelevant to the conversation.

That’s because you’re a “React developer”.

Just by how much better the editor/IDE support is with Python it is a change worth to do.

I just can’t stand the excessive dynamism of Ruby. I understand some people prefer/enjoy it, it’s just not for me.

Dexie is my favorite, although I haven’t tried them all of course.

This.

Only backend developers that think frontend is trivial and we’re all just idiots think that HTMX is the solution. They saw it working in their hello world side project and think they discovered gold.

You're mixing programming languages with software architecture.

I think the same. To me it looks like a Vercel marketing employee wrote that.

This is why I'm a big advocate of Inertia.js [1]. For me it's the right balance of using "serious" batteries included traditional MVC backends like Laravel, Rails, Adonis, Django, etc... and modern component based frontend tools like React, Vue, Svelte, etc. Responsibilities are clear, working in it is easy, and every single time I used it feels like you're using the right tool for each task.

I can't recommend it enough. If you never tried/learnt about it, check it out. Unless you're building an offline first app, it's 100% the safest way to go in my opinion for 99.9% of projects.

[1] https://inertiajs.com/

Great argumentation…

Haters are downvoting you probably because of mentioning anything PHP related.

But what you say is true. Blade is amazing.

Glad to hear that works for you. But nothing of what you are mentioning is part of Django, nor an official package,etc.

And I’m not going to get into the details of whether that stack would work for non backend developers, developers working on medium/large projects and/or medium/large teams. That’s a separate and unrelated discussion.

But compare what Django brings you (Stone Age templating system and that’s it) to what Laravel provides out of the box (or via official packages) like assets bundling, live reloading, an amazing and modern template system with proper “component like” partials or even if you need them, the “big guns” such as Inertia or Livewire. More or less the same is true for Rails with the Hotwire stuff.

There’s absolutely no point of comparison here. Even if that works for you, Django is not even in the same league.

It is still a great backend framework though, which was my point.

That’s true as long as you are only talking about the backend.

Frontend wise, Django is in the Stone Age.

Look at Laravel or rails if you want a really complete full stack solution.

That’s subjective

What terrifies me about Remix 3 is Remix 4.

That is… I wouldn’t even think about using it because it’s very likely they will change their mind next year and come up with something totally different. Again.

The reason is simple.

These guys are really, really obsessed with download counts. They brag a lot about that in twitter every time they have a chance.

What they want to reuse is the package name.

So now they launch whatever bullshit they are playing with now under the “remix” package and the next day they’ll say “look… we have N thousands downloads per second!!! We are so successful”

They did this multiple times. And will keep doing it because they are obsessed with this.