Record numbers of US citizens seeking to relocate to Canada & the UK. In the last couple months I remember seeing several news stories variously about Doctors, Professors and students applying and/or relocating.

Layoffs in the tech sector haven't slowed at all, and couple that with the DOGE Govt layoffs and the recent jobs numbers stories.

I feel quite certain that if the U.S. is actually measured "at #1" for anything good, it won't retain it much longer.

Bias Disclaimer: I'm a former software engineer working an hourly labor job.

My last salary was as a contractor for a 10 month project, which ended Dec 2019. Then came a divorce, the covid lockdown, and a horrendously difficult bout with depression.

I've moved back home, and have been looking for work in earnest for the last two years. I've finally had some nibbles with freelance, but interviews for salary positions are still few and far between, and even then solid, successful interviews have not gone in my favor.

For comparison, in 2013 I was poached after a recruiter saw my linkedin profile, and given an offer I couldn't pass up.

[1] https://neal.fun/wonders-of-street-view/?v=QHW86N

Twenty years between various agencies and contract terms, I've worked countless projects, and the ones which improved business processes, where end users lives were made much easier, were the most rewarding. Conversely, most of the 'fun' projects were almost immediately obviated (I'm looking at you, Silverlight).

The 1959 Sodium Reactor experiment was to demonstrate the feasibility of a sodium-cooled reactor as the heat source for a commercial power reactor to produce electricity. It used fuel rods similar to rods used in reactors in operation today.

Conversely the The Molten Salt Reactor experiment[1] used uranium fuel dissolved into a salt as both fuel and coolant for the reactor - this design enables significant advantages over traditional reactors powered by solid fuel.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molten-Salt_Reactor_Experiment

[0] http://breeze.github.io/doc-js/

It’s not the most graceful setup, but it works if your backend build isn’t as flexible as you need.

A+

As far as other opensource go to solutions, CVS and SVN, branching in them was nontrivial. Many folks preferred zipped folders to using CVS/SVN.

Tangentially, I still prefer Netflix solely based on viewing experience for web and mobile. The other services all have super awkward tradeoffs or issues.

http://www.effectgames.com/demos/canvascycle/?sound=1

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_cycling

[1] https://dune.fandom.com/wiki/Holtzman_Effect

In the books, the kernel of fictional science used for multiple effects, including suspensors which is what the Baron uses, is called the Holtzman Effect [1]. The movie doesn't mention it at all, but the depictions of suspensors with all the massive vehicles, as well as floating furniture, glow globes, etc, are all consistent with how the books describe them.

[1] https://dune.fandom.com/wiki/Holtzman_Effect

The original js13k game implemented a small sonant-x player for the audio, both sound fx and music.

Exactly this.

The flat "Metro" UI style was initially modeled and developed on Windows Phone 7, and for what it did, it was (imho) a great way to use a phone.

Then the rest of microsoft took what that group was doing and made it one-size-fits-all UI for everything windows.