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No, that's the result of their own (private) shares being worth more (which they owe to 3rd parties).

It's a good problem to have.

It could've been wide screen I agree.

Again, dumbfounded they completely passed on this use-case ...

It's shocking to me it doesn't support apps from the AppStore nor any kind of (video) media streaming.

Otherwise looks like an ideal kitchen TV/Movie playback device.

Nor the EU :(

Awesome site and guide, I just don't understand why all dates have the month in front of the date.

Isn't this very confusing to anyone outside US?

I get why it defaulted to this format, but in this day and age - it's trivial to automatically adjust it to the user's localization / preferences.

I can totally relate.

In addition to "no one to bounce ideas off" - no one to really share the pain and responsibility with when there are problems. It's all on you.

Thankfully, my users are very generous with their feedback, so when I do in fact do a "nice job" - I'm told so :)

For how long have you been building solo?

After 20 years, for me, I can tell you this - what helps me the most is exercising regularly (ideally on all weekdays) AND having kids.

Because of the kids, I rarely have the time to feel lonely and the regular physical exercises keep me in a (fairly) good mental state.

It felt the worst in my first years of solo dev, when all I did was work and hardly spent any time to socialize and take care of myself.

I'm sure it'll get better for you too as your project evolves and your life along with it.

I can tell you my reasoning.

While developing the dark mode theme for my mobile app, I experimented with pure black background first.

It looked off.

I couldn't figure out why it looked off (design wise, but also seemed weirdly hard to read) until I played with a bunch of other mobile apps with dark mode (which I used already and liked) and noticed their backgrounds are not black.

Then I just tried a couple of shades of "almost black" and the improvement was huge - easier on the eyes and more pleasurable to read.

I don't have a scientific explanation why this is the case, just I wanted to kinda directly answer the question with my anecdotal experience of why I do it.

Simply identifying them by IP so that each Google bot instance is a unique user ...

I rate limit because of aggressive bots (scrapers and ones trying random injection attacks etc).

And yes, it's returning 429 ...