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Good unique handles are only getting scarcer as the internet grows older. I wonder what people will do 20 years from now.

Who are these people? Probably in their 20s, high paying job out of school, don't give a hoot about saving money and just live it up while the going's good. I can't imagine anyone else going for $4000/mo apartments.

Or, multiple people sharing a place.

You can see the remedy attempts already

* push for cloud storage over local storage

* push for locked down devices over general purpose computers

* push for DRM on the open web

* big ISP companies fighting against net neutrality

You seem to be at the whim of fickle web APIs, that's no way to go if you're in it for the long haul. Web tech moves very fast because it's just so easy to iterate and deliver the latest version to your users - and why waste time being backwards compatible when people put up with you regardless?

You have to decide whether you want to pursue these ever-changing trends and be a middleman between API services and users, or take charge of your fate and develop your own meaningful technology (that others in turn will use).

If you click on "Tips Home" it gets even weirder. Like the url for "Technical tips" being "make-money-online-tips/", and check the Blogroll.

What a bore. Why would I want to read mill-produced articles weaved with sponsored posts? There's an overwhelming amount of meaningful content coming from thousands of different sources, made by writers and artists who have something to say to the world beyond optimizing for page views and ad clicks.

Sure, you learn the most in your first 6 months by quantity but that doesn't mean you learn the most valuable things. You won't learn anything of depth in half a year.

I'd like to give freelancing a shot at some point. How would you build a reputation network coming from a corporate background?

How about no more scroll jank by just delivering plain useful content without the anti-usability bells and whistles? Even the cheapest hardware out there today is able to provide a nice user experience, and in answer to that we invent new ways to make everything bloated and choppy.