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This is an excellent description of the trajectory of Digg, the first platform I witnessed going through this lifecycle. In this case, the competitor that drained users from Digg was Reddit.

Another feature of Digg’s decline was a disastrous redesign that, overnight, soured most of the users on the site. It was basically a speed run of step 5 here.

I use the AWS Toolkit for PyCharm; it automates most of the process, including pulling an image (built by Amazon, I believe) that emulates the Lambda environment. All I have to do is write the Lambda function with the correct method signature, designate it as such, start a debug session, and PyCharm + Docker do the rest. It's insane that PyCharm Professional only costs $100 or so, it saves me that much in development time in a single day.

Edit: all of the above will work with the free version of PyCharm, I believe, but without the in-IDE control panel for Docker (which you don't absolutely need).

Quite the contrary, I’ve found Docker to be absolutely indispensable for local dev, particularly when I’m debugging various cloud-targeted components, e.g. AWS Lambdas and Step functions. A container can nicely simulate most of the running environment of those things, and mock everything else. Docker + JetBrains IDE is a must-have for that reason

Agreed, FreeCAD is painful to use when you’ve been spoiled by Fusion or OnShape. I’ve tried using SALOME as an OSS alternative, it’s somewhat reminiscent of FreeCAD but something of an improvement. CadQuery is another possibility, but I would miss some of the drawing tools - full parametric CAD seems too limiting.