"Go outside more" is absolutely a nonstarter in the places that most need this: northern latitudes in the winter.

Not only is "outside" often so cold that you need to cover enough of your skin that the sunlight would barely help, the weaker sun we get in winter just doesn't produce enough vitamin D in our bodies. That's the problem.

(Edit: "northern latitudes" can probably be replaced with "more extreme latitudes," as I believe there are some places that are far enough south that they also experience this, just at the opposite end of the year)

Which is why the Soviet government used “ultraviolet baths” to make sure that children up North got their vitamin D.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photo-of-the-day/photo/ul...

I solve this with 2 150w led corn lamps in my office!

My impression was experienced Perl programmers took pride in making the smallest code possible, all in one line.

At my company they really locked in the project being dead if the original contributors left.

Perl propped up regex (JavaScript regex is based off of it), so I get the impression Perl practitioners tried to make all the code regex-y as possible as a cultural thing.

There was a regular feature in the perl community for 'golf' or 'crazy one liners' but almost no one used that shit in any actual code that left their user directory.

I remember the Perl art competitions, where you would write Perl code that would run and actually do something, and would be ASCII art at the same time. Obviously, lots of camels ;-)

Code golf is fun as a challenge, but it's obviously hell to find in a script someone else wrote that you're supposed to maintain.

> Perl programmers took pride in making the smallest code possible, all in one line

And this became a joke and meme.

I learned React before hooks. Came from a mostly forgotten framework called ExtJS that used base JavaScript classes, so it was an easy transition.

Class based React is great. My old projects are cleanly structured, but harder to change. Class based React also lacks the composability you get with hooks.

Pascal’s wager applied to tech cycles. The fervent adherence to the hype is akin to religious zealots in many ways

Yes, this post ironically makes me more bearish

Training models on so much AI-generated content will certainly lead to diminishing quality.

Yes. The strength of the dollar is based on stability

Almost all phone apps could be a web app

A great native app on an iPhone feels far superior to a mobile website. The gestures, the stack navigator, haptics, scrolling, native ui primitives, etc…

Also iOS accessibility screen reader APIs are way better than the web. Accessibility actions for instance are great.

It doesn't have to be this way though. What you're describing is a result of Apple intentionally prioritizing native over web apps to maintain control of their lucrative walled garden.

There’s no way within web standards to match iOS native api UX. Even on Android where you have chrome as the mobile browser you can’t match it.

Even if you could ship chrome renderer on iOS you won’t be able to make a mobile web app feel as good as an iOS app. The little details, animations, and microinteractions that come with native apps are better, plus there are other less visiual capabilities like background uploads and prefetching. The moment you need something like an in app camera, a native app is going to be so much better.

there are thousands of apps that do not require to be "great native apps". If only Apple invested more on mobile Safari we could have "almost great" web apps and be out of their mafia ecosystem.

I am old enough to remember the days of Internet Explorer, I can tell you that it was not fun. It is a blessing that we can at least deliver some pretty decent web apps today, and we should keep pushing for it.

Really? Very hot take. Can you link one AI song that has moderate popularity that they might be shuffling people to?

Stock market is too illogical. Seems like a dip buy opportunity every time.

I bet companies even buyback after these dips.