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What a sentence to read here.

> Second, a key in a struct literal may now be any valid field selector for the struct type, allowing fields in nested or embedded structs to be initialized directly

It's been a while since I've written more than anything trivial in golang, but this seems like a big deal to me. As in, I can define a struct that is consistent and reusable in other structs

The one I saw most recently was working with an SRE coworker. Data in what looks like a table, in this case a subdomain/IP address, that overflows the cell gets cut off with no ability to actually view it. I almost had him just edit the CSS in Chrome, but he figured out a different workaround.

Yes. We’re beginning the process of moving away because of how they’ve become a single point failure that’s unreliable. AWS is more reliable and it’s a bad spot to be in when your CDN / router is down but your actual application is fine

These acquisition announcements always leave me uneasy. There’s a lot of hand waving, “nothing will change and our roadmap will stay the same!” but we can all do basic math and understand that’s not how business works.

As an aside, I have to use Cloudlare at work and it’s a pretty awful experience for the medium sized org I’m at. “Hostile UX” is a common complaint. Maybe they should invest money in competing with Vercel on UX/DX instead of acquiring open source projects.

Same, we got an email with a PDF with the affected commits and how to fix. What an absolute clown show.

I'm not a journalist so I don't have any interest in "telling you what happened," but the note about commits after the firestorm is a good one.

I lived in Japan and your level of written fluency paired with the patience to distill aspects of Japanese culture strikes me as AI. Even amongst long time foreigners, there’s this unspoken “we’re not explaining this to you, figure it out yourself.”

Your level of fluency would be incredibly rare, and I’ve never seen any Japanese person use romaji in casual online conversation.

“Gunma Banker Mode” would 1) be an insane commute to Tokyo where most banking occurs 2) is strange for someone who says they’re not a programmer, but a banker who is “switching their OS.”

Lastly, your comments just stink of AI because you point the obvious out in not—so-correct ways. “Code” is not the context, but I can see how HN could be reduced to that.

If both are true — this is an AI article and people are commenting with AI, then I fear peak dystopia is upon us and HN is losing its magic to information pollution. Sad times

Only on HN is there a “well, actually” with little substance followed by a comment about a launch.

The article isn’t about writing production ready agents, so it does appear to be that easy

I don’t really see what’s newsworthy. Acela already runs in the NE corridor and many trains have outlets. Other than the 27% increase in trains, it’s hard to tell what’s different

I’m not creating a medium account to read the entire article, but I read plenty of bad code while living in Japan — as a full-time employee, a contractor, and open source projects. I would take this article with a grain of salt.

I’m mixed about Next.js. On one hand, it’s a company building a framework with investors, of course there are incentives for them to corner the market. Like the author mentions, Redis labs has a similar model. The license is MIT, so Netfify or anyone can fork and offer a better alternative, if they’re capable and willing to take on the risk of it flopping. Also, if I’m an investor in Vercel — why would I encourage them to put my investment at risk by aiding competition?

On the other hand, there does seem to be a sleight of hand with Vercel. They want it both ways — to be a company that champions and fosters open source while also keeping the necessary friction in place to make their hosting platform the best choice.

For better or worse, I think we’ll only see more of this model in the future.