bananatron

grok's looks like one of those clocks you'd find at a novelty shop

It must be best for americans to not post salaries

Rails is particularly nice in a cursor-first world (probably true of any elder framework that has strong opinions/conventions).

Really awesome project! Scaling this down to household scale is so helpful.

I was surprised this wasn't mentioned in the article - I assumed this is what they were talking about.

But its `free`

Try to only acquire stuff that looks kind of broken and life becomes cheaper.

Missed opportunity to call it Duck Typing™

www.1kprojects.com and transferslot.com exist - maybe they're too small for your situation?

I totally agree. It's been the most insightful book I've read this year.

I also long for the ugly web (for the lack of a better term), and think about it a lot. I often wonder how much of my ego and/or attachment for being an individual is the foundation of this sentiment.

As a developer, I even see this echoing through the tech evolution of web development (inaccessible SPAs which take 4 seconds to load and where you can't effectively use tabs, a sea of popovers and overlays, etc.).

Surely, there will be niche places where this ideology remains (and those communities will become stronger, as a result), but maybe the fact that the ugly web is no longer the only web makes us early internet pioneers feel less special.