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Facebook is cooked 5 months ago

This is just clickbait. Yeah there is brain rot on there, and what he was presented with is questionable, but he hadn't used it in 8 years. If he started using it, he would see more of what he's interested in. It's not a mind reader.

That's no longer immigration; that's an invasion. You can't just let unfettered immigration into a country because that would drain resources and have a negative cultural impact. Yes, people in a country pay taxes and as such should enjoy protections against invaders.

Developers reach for Toasts because they're zero effort. Good user experience takes a lot of thought and you can skip all that with Toasts haha.

Doing Rails Wrong 10 months ago

I'm going to make the case that it's actually the opposite. Rails might seem simpler out of the box, but this is all surface level. Rails is massive and extremely complex, especially its ORM, which encourages really bad database practices in my experience. And it doesn't have strong typing.

If you went head-to-head with Rails on a slightly complex project with say shadcn/ui, Convex DB, and TanStack Start, I guarantee you, the TypeScript app will be much simpler and give you more power than Rails, especially when building the UI. And to top it off, you will have strong typing everywhere -- from the DB schema to the URL routes.

And bonus, deployment is simple. ConvexDB already takes care of the backend and the frontend could be deployed to something like Cloudflare Pages.

While these technologies are interesting, React has built a moat with its component ecosystem. It doesn't matter how intuitive or simple your new frontend solution is when I can `bunx add` a component from shadcn/ui and be instantly productive. Not to mention most companies with frontend integrations are shipping their own React components. You get composability and familiarity.

And while there are decent component libraries in plain JS, the top talent is building in React.

Working in smaller steps is how you should build software. Constantly get feedback and re-evaluate what you're working on with other members of the team. Instead of giving an estimate, use t-shirt size.

With constant feedback, the whole team is participating in the emergent complexity, instead of being passive and just annoying you with "is it done yet"?

There are conflicting studies, but recently, it was determined you need adequate vitamin B levels to support omega-3.

As an aside, you can definitely over-dose on omega-3 which can cause afib, and increase your chance of stroke. I was taking 2 grams per day and definitely had arrhythmia issues. Decreasing the dosage to 500mg per day eliminated the arrhythmia.

Sounds pretty reductive and dismissive. Have you actually used LiveView and compared the DX? I've used a a few of the technologies you listed, and LiveView is a different animal.

I've had similar experiences. One recruiter within the company said they had an offer ready for me and then asked about my React experience at the last second. I was completely honest that I was still getting up to speed on React but had used similar frameworks and done front-end since the late 90s. I got ghosted.

You can leverage debt as an individual as well. We often shame people for bankruptcies when we shouldn't. Businesses fail all the time and go bankrupt -- running a household is similar and can fail.