I see you guys are working on supporting the postgis extension. This would be HUGE!!! The gis community would be all over this.

If anyone wants to help out who has compiled the postgis extension and is familiar with WASM. You can help out here. https://github.com/electric-sql/pglite/pull/807

Government has a massive network of cameras, drones and facial recognition devices. You basically can't walk anywhere in Michigan without getting your face scanned. https://www.atlasofsurveillance.org/atlas

No Vue, is just JavaScript. React is JSX.

You never want to lose direct contact with your customers. Having someone insert themselves between you and the customer is a recipe for disaster.

They know this better than anyone.

Incompetence, our "leaders" are woefully incompetent. MAGA, GOP and the right are filled with idiots. The Liberal and Neoliberal Democrats at least were a little better at stealing everything from us and delaying progress. They would bury people in culture wars and keep their followers busy with DEI rules. They used legitimate racist issues and then said everything was caused by racism and not that the 1% was just stealing everything.

Blazor will die like Sliverlight. Just learn HTML, CSS and Javascript.

Yeah, I'm very wary about putting all my eggs in Microsoft's basket after what I've seen.

They have a pretty extensive history of encouraging everyone to get on the wagon only to drive it straight into the nearest ditch. You can't trust a company that competes with its own customers.

I know all three, and I'm not seeing it dying any time soon. WebAssembly is not going anywhere, neither are dynamic back-end systems. I have drastically less issues with my front-end while using Blazor compared to just doing raw JavaScript. I've built everything from a PWA from scratch using Vanilla JS, to an iFrame Frenzy web app a client paid us top dollar to build.

Silverlight was proprietary, Blazor is MIT licensed and using open web technologies that are NOT going anywhere any time soon. We just had another major upgrade to Web Assembly's spec not that long ago.

So what? It is just another tool in the toolbox. A tool that someone already invested in webdev can pick up in a week or two.

Congratulations, you have recreated NodeJS but with GO and HTMX.

I started my programming journey with VB6. Ruby reminds me of Visual Basic. But its never evolved past that. Python became popular because it was a scripting language that had classes and a nice built out framework of features. But it has a god awful syntax and should never be used for a large project. Also their package management is a dumpster fire.

This brings me to C#. At .NET 10 there will be another option then python. .NET 10 brings the ability to run C# script files without the need for a proj file or a main method. This will bring the full .NET Framework and NUGET eco system with it. I can't wait to replace all my python scripts with this.

Meta makes 95%+ of its revenue on their ads. Whats crazy is that they own the platforms that most of their ads run on. Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp, etc. How do we know they're not fudging the stats on the ads? They're already known not to be trusted. How has a third party Ad Verification system not popped up by now. Not for just Meta but for all Ad networks.

Game out your theory that they are overstating stats. It wouldn't matter if they were. Individual advertisers are getting enough value in downstream effects (actual sales) that they are paying what they are paying.

Presumably the revenue is something that ends up in a bank account. So an audit would make sure that number is accurate.

But I agree with the general problem of auditing advertising and performance. I've tried advertising on FB and my metrics never showed half of the engagement that they claimed.

The advertisers can see the traffic coming in from clicks, I would think. There would remain some opportunity for fraud by FB if some of the ad money is just for impressions but it seems like it would be difficult to keep click rate up while shorting the buyer on impressions.

H1Bs are replacing workers.

H1B is a type of visa, the holders of which are workers.

It was implied that is was American workers being replaced.