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Sorry to be passive aggressive here, but who gets past 10 years old while still thinking that the world and humans operate the same way you do?

Just because you didn't face it, doesn't mean there are people who tie their identity to work success... in fact there are many.

Totally, I think it also comes with a healthy detachment of the identity from work, because its only worth it in a personal context when working for yourself, not for another company.

Raindrop, Obsidian web clipper, notion web clipper, Readwise

There is probably a reason they did with a ground-up rebuild and partially this is because svelte 4 didn't enable universal reactivity and $ was more confusing than useful.

Furthermore <slot /> had limitations in terms of children which made it difficult to build UI libraries.

Svelte 5 now is actually simpler to learn for new comers despite higher verbosity.

I love it!

It does super well except for generating views, the FE story of Rails is still incomplete but depends on the use-case

Is there something like that for VSCode?

This just shows that life is really transient. Life circumstances change, so we probably shouldn't be dogmatic.

Frankly 90% of people probably are not cut out to be entrepreneurs because it requires certain qualities.

Frankly I think I am too dumb for React, which seems more like an enterprise tooling rather than focusing on simplicity and productivity.

For static sites Astro is the way!

What do you use for more interactive / app like experiences?

Specifically I need to call external APIs to retrieve data, store it, and then call another API to send some of the adjust results in the body.

Doesn't Rails have like an insane learning curve? (I might be as well wrong) at at least compared to other frameworks.

i.e. in professional capacity. Hence the criteria of "# of jobs" does not apply.

I think thats exactly what the question is not though.

There are too many un-opinionated answers like this. What if I don't respectfully don't know any stack? (my case).

Thats what the initial question was about.

Can I just say, thank you?

Some of the answers are exactly what I've been trying to avoid. My only goal is being able to build my own stuff, I don't really care about kubernetes or scaling. I don't anticipate to have 1m active users with concurrency.

At the same time, I got a bit scared by React quite frankly and hence was only looking at Sveltekit. However you rightly pointed out, its still being shaped despite being similar to Next.js and seems like ideal for React devs who want to jump into more simplicity and "vibes" with DSL.

My only other consideration was Rails but for that one - the learning curve is even steeper.

How is it compared to Rails? It seems like the world is just divided between server first or JS framework first depending on how much interactivity. In my case i just need some API calling, retrieving data, rendering it on the dashboard (just text, no graphs) and pushing some of the content to another API.

Followed by Dwarf Fortress :)

And its OSS!

Omnivore.app - me and my friend wrote a short review on it here: https://adopter.substack.com/p/omnivore-the-privacy-focused-...

This is driven by incentives though...

The same incentives that enable google to exist, then push the same company to be "less good" by prioritizing growth and public market interests.

As long as you borrow capital, there is always a cost on incentives.

The problem is that substack also solves for distribution.

Blogger doesn't but I don't think any VC backed version of this can succeed because ultimately our craving is to have a free space to read quality content and the incentive of these platforms is to maximise revenue which just don't go hand in hand.

So the result is this dissonance.

I hope one day we will see a platform that can both sustain (without the goal of going IPO)

We need bootstrapped Medium in a way.

Nice! I did a little todo app with elysia, turso and htmx/hyperscript - the experience is very friendly.

https://bun-elysia-tailwind-htmx-todo-app-falling-pond-2121....

What a wonderful answer! thank you for that.

Sorry I should have been more clear, the title was based on a very popular post from a few days: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40105121

I don't hate the industry, I am a PM and work with engineers daily but looking at what they work on, its not really something I personally desire professionally.

The stuff that you describe though, is really only possible on the job. Like I don't imagine doing kubernetes for my apps. But I get the philosophy behind what you are trying to say and thank you for that.

Thanks for the perspective!

Mostly time and mental capacity with already demanding job to be honest. I enjoy programming so much that I'd love to do it full-time, just not in a corporate.

Whats the last time you used bubble sort in your Linktree clone side-project?

Great observation.

I started learning programming years ago and never had an inclination to become a software engineer professionally.

Whilst everyone is doomscrolling about AI taking over, I am learning basics and fundamentals of programming and having so much fun.

Its the only activity that gives me flow state these days and actually allows to build something from nothing.

I wish I could pickup the skills faster, but I also realize that I'd be probably miserable...

Was trying to comprehend Waking Life but I feel like you really need to go into it with 100% focus.

Its a general problem of always thinking how to "level up".

Also a recent random view on this: https://nickang.substack.com/p/my-problem

Growth at all costs? Taking shortcuts? Sounds familiar...

There are a few:

- https://openalternative.co/

- https://www.opensourcealternative.to/

- https://opensourcealternatives.org/

- https://www.btw.so/open-source-alternatives

By just aggregating everything FOSS, doesn't mean its useful. Its useful in a certain context - such as searching for alternatives.

If you are uncertain how to "plan the product", don't plan -> just start.