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While it is a popular theory, I don't think that Saudi Arabian guys who are trying to diversify their oil-bound economy care about virtual human relations as much as US/EU tech puritanists that already rule tech, assessing every ownership of every nipple in Instagram stories

Even without that, Withings devices were terrible!

Maybe they have good sensors and stuff (I don't know), but they are disgusting to use.

I have their base body composition scale. To make it actually save my data, I need to carefully balance my body with the precision of a tightrope walker. The balancing style depends on the type of hard-floor, too.

If I am unable to do this, it will jiggle my weight numbers here and there on a very pixelated, low-quality screen, and eventually shut down erasing all data which took a minute of recording + a minute of balancing.

And yeah... that screen... Cheap vapes, soldering irons, and even chargers produced the same year had much better screens than my "premium body composition scale" (why all these have a screen at all is a different question, lol!).

I paid a huge premium for this scale in comparison to, for example, Xiaomi scales, just to find out that the Xiaomi scale is way easier to use.

While it doesn’t make sense for software, it makes sense for paid publications (and for other stuff where text is THE goal)

In case you are all-Apple, there is no reason to use either 1Password or Bitwarden – since a few years ago Apple Passwords have everything you need

Because Deno turned into some quirky serverless technology.

CF has its own quirky serverless technology and has no interest in funding any competition, even/especially in such sad shape as Deno is

+1, Sublime has great search and instant startup time, which makes it perfect for doing small patches around AI-written code

At the beginning of the AI race, JetBrains had:

- top-tier language intelligence

- all sorts of applications for building software, from IDEs to task trackers

- a huge, loyal user base

- being big enough to have deals with leading AI providers

They had the potential to lead the AI devtools race. Right now, good but quite basic tools like Pi, Conductor, or Herdr are getting good funding.

But JetBrains just failed to adapt. Their biggest AI attempt – Air – was way worse than Conductor, which is built by a team of few people.

I feel like there are just a few shortsighted people in leadership behind this flop. I will not be surprised if JetBrains will be defunct/shrinked in 5 years.

I use React, Vue, and Svelte extensively, and I don't think that there is any problem with integrating 3rd party JS libraries in any of these frameworks.

React, as the most bare-bones framework, might be simplest to integrate, and you can see that by the enormous size of its ecosystem.

Vue and Svelte will have problems with integrating various devtools, due to the fact they use custom syntax to mimic native web tech. In Vue, this problem is solved by framework popularity and the fact that the Vue team produced most of the key devtools, so Vue is, of course, supported.

Svelte, on the other hand, still works badly with Storybook and linters.

A good counterexample to your take will be that I was unable to use the JS version of Framer Motion with Svelte without huge caveats that made making any complex animation impossible. I wasn't able to do so with Vue, for roughly the same reasons, but Vue, as a big framework, got 1st party support.

In early 2026 I struggled a lot with models messing Svelte 4 and Svelte 5. I'm sure same thing will occur with load function vs remote functions, once they will be released

Many popular HR portals require mandatory LinkedIn profile in application form

Because of that you either use LinkedIn, or a lot of jobs are inaccessible to you

It's HR version of "living without an ID"

I'm reading "Ametora: How Japan Saved American Style". This is a book on how Japan became leading power in western menswear.

Apart from being an interesting book on fashion history, it also draws a lot of interesting connections & facts.

For example, that renowned Japanese magazine Popeye has this weird, almost construction catalog structure because it was inspired by... "The Whole Earth Catalog."

Or how in post-war Japan western formal wear was a punk-like form of protest of teens against elderly.