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I don't disagree with the sentiment, but Ballmer essentially made that money by simply not selling his Microsoft stock.

It's interesting how quickly my brain developed an AI detector for written language (this blog post screams ChatGPT).

I wonder if it will stay effective, or if LLMs figure out a way around it? Or maybe it's just that this is the new way that technical blog posts are written, sort of how nearly all press releases feel univocal.

Is there a term for this style of writing? It's like a longform linkedin post. I don't mean this as a criticism, it just seems like written language is evolving to better capture our diminishing attention spans.

> Tech is a poor fit for agriculture.

Incorrect. I worked for an Ag tech company for almost a decade. Ten years ago, farmers were downloading high resolution satellite imagery of their fields directly to their GPS enabled precision sprayers so that the spray rate would adjust continuously based on the vegetative index of the land they were over. I don't know what state of the art is today, but I imagine it would surprise folks who aren't in the field.

It is a batteries included _front end_ framework. You don't need to worry about compiling, routing, code splitting, etc. Most of the things you described should be handled by the back end service

This is an unfortunate comparison. I actually chose Next.js because of its similarity to Rails - it's a batteries included, opinionated framework that favors convention over configuration (though it's not sold that way since these are not the currently trending buzzwords). There's absolutely nothing preventing you from using both tools. Rails works great as an API supporting a Next.js UI.

Honest question - have you ever tried to use the actual web components API? It very much feels like a set of primitives to build a framework on top of. I can't imagine the amount of boiler plate you would need to write to just use web components.

I'm surprised this wasn't on the front page. This caused quite a bit of trouble for me.

An alternative interpretation of the Marshmallow Test is that it is a measurement of trust as much as it is of self control. If you don't believe that the researchers are going to give you the two marshmallows, then you're not going to wait.

It's me... tried out cloudflare this morning. Bad timing.

Thank you so much for letting me know. Tried out cloudflare this morning, rolling it back.

We certainly do performance tests, and we also don't auto-update. The issue here was it was a slow leak, so it took time and significant load for the pattern of errors to present itself.

A rebuttal to a popular piece advising against using ESLint as a formatter.