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If we get in the habit of being disrespectful to machines, we will easily be disrespectful of people.

I thought ORMs are trying to solve the problem of type mapping between SQL and your backend language.

Admittedly, this doesn't end up being great, but it seems hard to solve this well in other ways, as much as I wish I could write SQL and get types for free.

Thank you, I'm happy to hear you address these models and will definitely be reading your book!

I think we need a "middle path" culture that finds a good balance between these pressures and values.

I've long been suspicious of the conflicts of interest induced by exit-orientated investment models.

I'm curious if you think cooperative businesses leveraging non-voting preferred shares, community shares and other coop investment instruments are more resilient against this type of corruption.

I'm wonder how you see the tradeoffs these models have against traditional LLC/VC models and how you would mitigate them.

Compare two popular FOSS harness projects:

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OpenCode

4.9k issues 1.7k PRs 158k stars

https://github.com/anomalyco/opencode

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Pi

31 issues 4 PRs 47k stars

https://github.com/badlogic/pi-mono

Their secret? A very rigorous contribution policy. Essentially, issues and PRs are autoclosed, and reviewed daily by the team. If its not slop, they whitelist either the issue/PR or the contributor (so their stuff isn't autoclosed next time).

https://github.com/badlogic/pi-mono/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.m...

GitHub needs an issue / PR approval flow.

Do what you would do at home on a week off.

Organizations and communities that embrace both AI users and AI abstainers will be the true winners.

A bimodal strategy gets you the best of both worlds: the ability to rapidly explore and develop ideas, and the ability to critically and cautiously assess them.

Diversity fuels evolution.

Niri is scrumptious UX. It's the future of desktop.

It's just very hard to measure.

On the corporate scale, see the whole carbon / ESG / impact measure ent industry. Lifecycle Analysis, supply chain extrapolation, Bill of Materials analysis.

You only get some relatively crude estimate and a lot of missing data points, whereas economic growth can conveniently assign a dollar value on everything.

I think it only gets worse as you scale up.

I thought this was a "carpe diem" motivational post xD

Visually, okay for me.

UX wise, not really a revolution.

Please learn from Zen Browser.

How about other frontier models, and smaller models?

A wonderful exposition of an original take. Really well written, and delightfully succinct.

Coming from a new-pragmatist orientation, this is a nice invitation to look more carefully at phenomological takes.

More please!

I've recently become curious about the scene, and discovered quite a bit going on. It seems most tech coops are operating more like agencies, taking on client work. Haven't seen many developing products.

Here is a great list of tech coops: https://tech-coops.xyz/

Here is a new but somewhat active matrix channel where some tech coops folks hangout: https://matrix.to/#/#techcoop:autonomic.zone We plan to have an informal call to chat there on 22nd of February at 17:00-18:30 UTC.

Here is a Discourse forum for tech coops: https://community.coops.tech/

Note that a big problem with building a product tech coop is that you exactly can't as easily raise millions: investors by definition cannot take stake in a coop. Instead, you need a business loan, and its less common to find financiers willing to loan large rounds for high risk investment. That may be a cultural thing though, because in theory, sufficient interest could offset the risk in aggregate I guess.

Brexit 2.0

I've recently migrated to Zen [0] and its a breath of fresh air.

I agree with comments arguing bad bookmark UX is part of the problem. Zen's approach is a vertical tab sidebar with workspaces and folders. Crucially, it distinguishes pinned and ephemeral tabs.

The approach is much more natural to me than either bookmarks and tradition tabs.

[0] https://zen-browser.app/

Nettles & fresh jalapeño salad with mayo-miso dressing is one of my favorite inventions.

The reading part is a few orders of magnitude more work now. I would say that is a change.

I know its disturbing to many, but there is something nice about the post-truth moment: it feels like more people are actually questioning things more than when I grew up in the 90s/00s.

I think we need to shift towards a socionormative understanding of knowledge; as Rorty put it: "a fact is just something we can't be bothered to argue about". I agree with him that talking about truth isn't so useful for moving our culture forward.

We should be talking about how to negotiate the diverse vocabularies of discursive communities as they increasingly clash in our globalized culture. Dialectical exclusion is the cultural catastrophe of the day.

Sprachspiele!

That creepy moment when you ask Claude what it knows about you.

Didn't get this message.

Are you sure this isn't spam and that its actually coming from Durov?

It's really hard to be sure, but my pet theory is that frontend tech has been rapidly evolving since it had to solve some real problems that are relatively new at scale:

- Work with reactive variables

- Combine three different languages

- Write modular code

- Enable highly response designs

The target platform (the web) doesn't natively support all of these things elegantly, and maybe for good reasons.

I've got the feeling that frontend frameworks are starting to converge to some consensus on some of these things (e.g. signals), and I hope the next decade will be more stable than the last.

I love the idea, but why can't I install with npm and import as plain CSS?

Makes sense xD

Best of luck! I'm curious to see what you come up with next.

Thank you for all your contributions! Svelte 5 is a blast.

If you don't mind me asking, why did you leave? What do you plan on working on going forward?

I noticed Dominic mentioned he is "between roles" in the README; I suppose that implies he left Vercel? Does it mean he is leaving the Svelte team too?

unshittified.

Seems awesome, but let me know when your entry level plan is under $10. I'd love to be able to prepay for credits rather than have a subscription!

It seems a bit unlikely Musk is doing this to Twitter out of stupidity or ideology; I'm sure he has a good measure of both, but I doubt he has them in this quantity.

Could Elon's actual play here be: 1. Radicalize Twitter as the ideal platform for right-wing American voters 2. Use this asset this to gain political leverage during a key election cycle 3. Use this juice to advance some of his long-term objectives