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Why? When developing standards it's very good to have good gatekeepers. Not everything should be built inside the browser if you can achieve the same with existing technologies like JS.

Otherwise your browser(standards) might become too complex.

I think a watch is indeed a better 'companion' for people that want to detox from screentime. I do find Apple is hesitant to make it act as a primary driver. I find myself needing my iPhone too much for my liking. Hopefully this will change in the future.

I want the connectivity, I just don't want to... - carry 2 devices. - have a media consumption device with me all the time

They should have just put everything on Tesla model 2. In Belgium everyone is excited for a 5000 EUR tax cut for EV vehicles below 40000 EUR. Lots of people interested in buying Model 3 and Model Y now. But 35000 EUR is still too much for the general public. If they could’ve released a model 2 for 25000-30000 EUR instead of the Cybertruck, it would have dominated the EV market.

"Lighters should not exist. Anyone can start a fire, all the time, everywhere. This will lead to an inferno in no time." etc.

It's a very narrow subgroup.

But things can coexist. It's now easier to create music than ever, and there is more music created by more artists than ever. Most music is forgettable and just streamed as background music. But there is also room for superstars like Taylor Swift.

Things don't have to be either-or.

Yesterday, it failed to give me the correct answer to 4 + 2 / 2. It said 3...

That would be a good ending. The villain suddenly becomes the hero, but his evil purpose disappears and he gets depressed. :)

> Of course if you load a bunch of code beforehand your code will be marginally better.

That's exactly the point though. We use jQuery because it has an incredible easy and consistent interface that makes writing for the web so much more enjoyable. Selectors, events, chaining,... are all just nicer to work with than the vanilla counterparts. Same goes for all libraries and frameworks. :)

BTW: Your example is sending a "multipart/form-data". Not all API's will understand this, and will need JSON anyway.

JQUERY:

  await $.post({
    url: '/my/url',
    data: data
  }).then(() => {});

VANILLA:

  await fetch('/my/url', {
   method: 'POST',
   headers: {
     'Content-Type': 'application/json'
   },
   body: JSON.stringify(data)
  }).then(() => {});

I know which one I still prefer.

Nice idea and execution :)

You really think this will be an issue? Storage just keeps growing? The entire history of internet will probably be stored in millions of copies on some rice-sized containers somewhere. :D

Not OP, but I'm almost the same.

If you have (young) kids, it's non existent either way.

Now I go to sleep at the same time my kids do, around 9PM. My social life is during noon. My lunch-time is 2.5 hours instead of the usual 40min. During that time I go to the gym, have lunch with my wife, do some shopping, go to the barber,...

I can recommend it. More sunlight, more movement, no evening binging, no hanging in the couch, no useless late-night phone scrolling, no tired mornings, better quality time with the family...

Apple was never about the games or content or even hard numbers. What is Apple like is: 1. incredible engineering :All very high quality fabrics, machining and optics.

2: The detail oriented software. Look how polished everything looks in Vision OS. It’s just nice to be ‘in’ there.

3: The integration of the software and hardware. Extremely nice handtracking, amazing see-through functionalities, working with a good ecosystem (keyboard, MacBook, trackpads,…)

Those experiences are what makes Apple unique. Not ‘better’ per se. That depends on what you need.

It wasn't magical. Technically, it couldn't do a lot of things that other smartphones could. I had a Windows smartphone that could run Excel, with a slide-out keyboard for fast input. 1st gen iPhone was a bare-bones consumer device with the best touchscreen technology and a good (but very basic) UI. That is all it took to redefine the market.

It could not even copy-paste. It had horrible internet.

Vision Pro may be the first OS that does things "the right way" in AR/VR too. Big difference is that iPhone was a real consumer device, this seems more like a development device. Which may be a smart move, because after all: (Phone) Apps made Apple win, and not enough apps made Windows lose.

"That's the same as guys going, my 1000$ Ubuntu laptop can do everything your Mac does guys" That's great if that works for you, but most people would agree that Apple just has that finishing touch that 99% of other brands do not achieve. It's all in the details. Apple is luxury tech.

Good observation!

It seems that in your 20s there's an inclination towards inspiration: exploring the world, ideas, and oneself.

However, post-30s, particularly when you've settled down and had children, the focus often shifts to cultivating your surroundings; Integrating the values and insights acquired to foster a more beautiful, safer pleasing home environment and community.

So a next step for the writer would be to step into a more active role, like conservation of some of the parts on his map. I think that would bring even more happiness.

It reminds me of one of my favourite quotes:

We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time.

T.S. Elliot

Keep anything that can copy your identity from the open web, especially socials.

Only use services that have privacy in mind.

Educate your family on how to check for these things, like asking personal questions, or having a safe phrase.

oooh, what plugin is this?

Junk ideas are useful to document too. When the idea resurfaces, one can read why it did not get through the first time.

A ticket-system like JIRA is the same as an e-mailclient to me. You sort by activity, having the most active tickets on top. You can flag/mark them, you can put them in different boxes or just use tags,... All are just means to create order in chaos.

But I would never think to move my old e-mail to a different 'system' than my normal e-mail(client). I never think of old e-mails or drafts as something I need to clean up.

Backlog items can start as rough ideas though. Refining of a ticket can be done later when you need to. But it can only be started to be worked on when the team thinks it is refined enough.

It’s not the same though. A high dose can lead to life altering insights. A low dose will just be a fun time.

Alcohol in higher doses isn’t therapeutic. More than 4 beers and any therapeutic effect alchohol could’ve had is now also gone. :)

That's more than I expected for sure. But I do wonder how 'concentrated' these are. I'd think (mental) illnesses are really tied to genetics.

And social-economic factors play a big role too in food, stabile stress-free upbringing and healthy activities.

I think 1 in 20 is a bit too high. 1 in 100 maybe to have a significant impact on your life. There are lots of tests now that so you have the chance to abort.

16% of the world population has a significant disability according to the WHO. Most of them are not born with it: age related (dementia, blindness,..), serious work accidents, lasting effects of diseases,...

Loads of them can get treated or won't alter life as much in the western world.

If your family history has no cases of mental illnesses, chances are very low to get them.

For a serious learning disability (not able to attend normal school), it's probably 1 in 20. Most of these kids will still live a fairly normal life in the western world.

Also, chances of disabilities also increase with the age of the parents. Best to have your kids between 20-35 to keep the odds down. Above 40 is a lot more dangerous than under 30.

That's ok. It's eating your own dogfood, and also "being there" for people that really need it. Much better than a robotmenu on a phone. :)

That's why accessibility needs to be constantly advocated.

We should never design services only for the needs of the majority. There are lots of people with all kinds of disabilities -mental and physical- that we need to cater for.

That's what makes our society a better, more loving society.

Nested components are not playing nice with their lifecycles too.

Querying elements also becomes more complex.

But the default set has been lacking for too long now too. Webbrowsers should really get together and make a new default set of Application-based UI controls, and make them a bit more beautiful by default. :)

Like datatables, rich-text editing, toolbars,...

MOST applications are just simpler CRUD UIs. Developing these is still too complex on the web platform.

It's basically just web components without the ShadowDOM implementation. I do it in some projects, but it comes with other drawbacks too.

document.querySelectorAll('p').forEach(p => p.dispatchEvent(new Event('mousedown')))