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I tried XState for a mobile app.

Pros:

- The concept of states, events, and actions are an intuitive way to model state and the learning curve for me wasn't too bad.

- I enjoyed using the visual editor inside VSCode and after setting up TS, the codegen was pretty cool.

- The library supports parallel states.

Cons:

- The codegen was sometimes pretty bad for TS. There was some jank between the editor and the codegen, leading to frustrating DX.

Congrats on the launch! I'm building an app that interfaces with OpenAI GPT models and they recently released an API to upload and create text embeddings.

I watched most of your Loom and was left wondering why wouldn't I use them directly vs you?

This reminded me of Xstate (https://xstate.js.org/docs/). Their visual editor in VSCode does this.

Agreed! As a creator I struggle navigating their web app to find/change basic things about my page.

The other side of it isn't great either. The content posted by the creators I follow is often slow to load, gifs & images being huge & slow search.

Because you like the control and customization of your portfolio and how do you go about picking the stocks to buy?

Why this book versus the 100's of others.

How much of your money do you invest into these financial vehicles (50%, 100%)?

Why a mutual fund over an ETF and by which method do you do it (ex: Robinhood)?

How did you bypass cert pinning in the video for the Airbnb app?

Snapchat was novel because of the ephemeral nature of the messages (and introducing stories). However in the late twenty teens they began focusing of face filters and introducing cringe ads & news networks which made it unusable for me.

Good to see they are still thriving though. Compared to Instagram they have maintained to be an app solely to communicate with friends vs. Instagram's philosophy of a feed of edited photos that can cause you to compare yourself to others.

Can you talk about instant ACH, why do some charter partners like Robinhood and Coinbase support it but other legacy banks don't?

How is instant ACH different to regular? Also, is it true that ACH is not instant bank to bank – essentially the banks settle up at the end of each month with 1 giant transaction?

What about P2P support via Zelle, I recently learned it's lipstick on a pig and basically ACH under the hood.

Sorry in advance if the questions are outside the scope of this thread.

I would come down to who has more experience in their resume. A lot of boot camp grads, unfortunately, cannot participate in internships because it's a continuation of classes (no breaks), but I don't think CS grads have a significant advantage assuming both prepared well and could get interviews.