elnygren

There is likely some reason why they all look the same and also happen to be some of the best performing companies there are.

Since they have a /pricing page it would seem their business is not to make it easy to self-host but in fact to make people pay for the cloud version instead.

Why are people so hostile towards BSL? Paying/asking money for great products is fine and if the product's source code is in git, the better.

Not everything has to be _free_. The major benefit of OSS for many is that you can read the source code. The major benefit of paid SaaS is that things just work and you pay for that. BSL can be the perfect combination of these.

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GitHub is the logical place for an “awesome react” list even if it’s not necessarily intended for that.

Oh my sweet summer children. Feels like the author has perhaps never worked on a complex, big product or with any capable engineering management.

The worst and biggest messes in software engineering that I've seen have been situations where there was not enough engineering management. And those situations were fixed by... introducing proper engineering (and product!) management.

That being said, it is perhaps possible to survive with less engineering management in a situation where everyone is behaving and performing at senior or above level. However, realistically, that is very rarely the case.

Sounds like a government intervention is needed and the monopoly should be broken down for a better functioning market.

However, I guess big tech companies have become part of the superpower games (USA vs. China etc.). Breaking up Google might just mean a Chinese company takes over. Can't trust the other governments to enforce similar market conditions.

So yeah, like you said, conditions of the universe :)

I’m curious, how does this project compare to slonik that is also a fast, lightweight, full featured, using SQL template literals etc ? Is there any reason to consider switching, for example?

Out of curiosity, where do these ratings come from? From the PMs? Or do you have EMs who just listen to the PMs in these things?

I already have a way to unify my messaging across different apps. It's called MacOS and cmd+tab. Sometimes on the road I use something called iOS. Sure it's not the same. But is it that different either?

All messaging apps have their own native features, some have E2E encryption etc. Not sure if there's a common subset that is enjoyable enough to use that it's worth it.

That being said, I do wonder what will be the "Facebook Events" (invite all your friends to an event) equivalent in the future when everyone is in a closed garden chat platform instead of Facebook.

It certainly ain't free or cheap if you are running a real business with real traffic and real customers.

However, still totally worth it, easily. Just saying they have a healthy B2B business model.

How to work with libraries like io-ts, Runtypes and Zod to parse all incoming & outgoing data in your applications type safely.

The point of the switch-case is to mimic pattern matching and TS is smart enough tell you whether you handled all cases.

Would you prefer that it's a if-elseif-else based structure instead? I guess that would work too but I feel like it could be easier to write it in a way where you accidentally forget to handle some case (since your else / last return is a potential catch-all).

I personally don't mind switch-case because I'm so accustomed to it in ReasonML/ReScript already.