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is there an decentralized org to ensure that all of the js css we use today remain backward compatible decades from now? or are we just at the whim of these browser vendors?

The main draw for me with elysia was that it maintains bun's perf benefits unlike express. When I got into the weeds of the documentation, their abstractions could use a lot of polish. The lifecycle of a request is not that clear imo and all the hooks you put into it look like hacks rather than integrations.

i also do the sit down a calculate exercise. i always end up down a rabbit hole of how to make a viral site as cheaply as possible. always ends up in the same place: redis, sqlite, SSE, on suspended fly machines, and a CDN.

solo leveling no contest

wow this is the first i've seen someone port from sveltkit to rails. can't wait to read that writeup

i forgot what year but the year the spurs won the championship against lebron would be unusual today. tons of passing not necessarily for the 3 but to just dislodge the defense enough for a guaranteed bucket

though, sqlite will not be used for the websocket broadcasting

i don’t think there’s any other input type you can apply the one million schtick to except color. i was thinking of squared shaped browser native color pickers on a 1000x1000 or 10k x 100 non responsive grid. but after seeing the infra and bandwidth costs from the guy who did checkboxes i don’t think my stack of choice could keep up (RoR) i was really looking forward to utilizing fly’s pause/resume feature

I'm impressed a single individual got to 600K MRR by himself. Only a few people can say that they've done that. Who knows when shopify would've taken their checkout experience seriously were it not for this guy. you can have interesting experience, build temporary things, be proud of it, and move on to the next thing.

I think gas app type growth was cool, but I cannot imagine being on that hamster wheel long term. the goal would to have an exit at the peak and not be like snapchat. that said, I do admire blue chip sites that go viral simply b/c it feeds a global demand very simply (ie., sudoku.com); if wordle didn't sell, they could've easily surpassed their purchase price in a few months.

i haven’t, was going to start trying to make some attempts this year, static sites like istheshipstillstuck and howmuchtoiletpaper. also i don’t know how to answer the monetization question for new sites that pick up traffic quickly

i have a budding interest in making viral apps!

perhaps for most things but probably not to the extent of something like excalidraw, which uses react

You can put all your writes in a queue to be processed by a finite set of writers. I think most CRUD applications can afford the delay and if not you can pair it with a write through cache.

sounds like law school

i think both fly.io and litestream were projects that spoke sweet words to the average developer wanting to build features without the infra headache, and what made sqlite so appealing was its simplicity. litestream kept that simplicity too. but i don't think the avg developer wants to spin up their own LiteFS. At a glance at the repo, i have no idea how to deploy this thing. It would have served fly and litestream users better to have kept replication within litestream.

just as no one using postgres on RDS will ever leave RDS not b/c RDS is so much better than its competitors but because the hurdle is too great and the migration so risky. right now, fly is the only one who lessens the burden to use LiteFS and as long as they're the only one, the average developer is essentially locked in.

How do you turn a local-first file system based database into a cloud software product with vendor lock in?

if someone can dockerize this, please reply with a link!

I cannot imagine they are getting a good return on 700 people weekly all hands meetings..

i’ve been thinking of doing something similar but for anime and with semantic search (ie., “rudeous getting punched”) but i have concerns about DMCA notices. I also know that search engines have a different set of rules for copyright liability but i couldn’t make sense of them since IANAL.

I might just make it for myself and call it a day.

i could see your argument from 10 to 100, but 1 to 3 is a practical productivity multiplier. There's also risk of the 1 engineer going to another company that thinks the same way but for $650,000 and now you're left with 0 engineers and no development.

where do i send the check

would not buy, doesn't protect against initial config deployment.

depends on how guaranteed is your solution?

who will make the abstraction as a service we all need to protect us from config changes

this might be controversial, but i just want to write semantic html and be able to toggle the design. if the design requires additional elements or JS, then it’s way too complex for a solo dev (for me anyway).

i think classless css frameworks really opened up the possibility for backend devs to spin up a project as long as they can write good thoughtful html.

i’m building my own classless stylesheet that i plan to use across all of my projects because todays classless are mostly for content or marketing sites but what i need is more app ui.

whenever i hear or read a google SRE resource, i’m most impressed by their back of the napkin calculations. it’s a skill i wish i had but don’t have opportunities to do it or even validate that i’m in the right ball park

The generated art is impressive, but there is no drawing that'll replace the one my daughter draws for me. AI generated art can reach and perhaps push the boundaries of what is considered beautiful, but it will never replace the art created by a human. Yes, there is a future for art.

FU money and practicality won’t align that well without a lot of luck. so optimize for luck.

It isn't unprecedented to ask the investors to write off their investments. Would it be too late to revert back to a private business?