I'd make a non competitive mode without mistakes system: I love the puzzles, idgaf about leaderboards

Eventually a new startup will replace your large inefficient employer with people working 10% of their time.

You and Paul are both claiming it's extremely hard.

A restaurant won't scale - most ideas won't scale - because they're not useful enough.

These companies are not criminal enterprise and they don't steal money or threaten them with violence: they just offer them products and ecosystem and most people are dumb enough to ruin their life with it. Don't get me wrong: I hate them and I ban social media for my kids, but it doesn't make them evil.

The bad actors are thugs with guns stealing your purse and the government stealing your tax money or threatening you with jail.

To give another, less controversial example, I don't think companies selling products with sugar and seed oils are bad, even though they likely have the highest combined reduction of life expectancy across all people - but I hate them too.

I'd rather have platform specific minimal binaries than a single binary with hacks.

Installing packages is a solved problem

I would recommend an add-on or new feature to detect and remove cookie banners / annoying popups that open on load (eg. sign up to my mailing list).

listing a few examples form fastText could help you.

You might also have the opposite problem though: some websites have content in the base html (so it's searchable by Google and they get views) and remove it on load (so you have to pay).

Capturing the initial html and comparing it to the final version could give you some hints and allow you to repair the removed content.

Best of luck with the project!

egui is the clear winner for making desktop applications. I've built a complex application recently (think of it like an AI powered image editor, doing plenty of editor logic and communicating with several python backends for the AI part) and it's been smooth sailing. It would be nice to have a family of components that look native on every platform but nowadays the desktop experience is anyway wildly inconsistent (and web-centric).

Using qt bindings is a good option too, but depending on non rust code means you are more likely to catch some weird crash. My experience with Qt in Rust is years old, so I can't comment on stability.

For frontend development, leptos is really nice and it feels familiar coming from react - but the whole chain is too heavy, your target directory quickly balloons to GBs and that's unacceptable, especially if you have several frontend projects.

I vibe coded a proof of concept leptos (including islands) with a minimal runtime and no dependencies and the size was much more contained. There is margin for improvements but today I would stick with solid.js for frontend development.

The other big hurdle for Rust on the web is the need to compile to wasm. That means that any Rust application will be heavier than a similar app in another JS framework. If we could target js instead of wasm, maybe we could have apps with small bundles.

I wonder if it's related to their strict rules on realistic pictures for advertising products

- Individuals and interactions over processes and tools - Working software over comprehensive documentation - Customer collaboration over contract negotiation - Responding to change over following a plan

The problem is that the Agile industry mostly didn't follow the Agile manifesto and ended up with monstruosity like SCRUM, which is all about processes over people.

Daily Standups, Retrospective, Backlog Grooming = PROCESS

This crap should all be replaced with async written communication (for quality of life and recording), but each team should ultimately be free to decide.

The Agile manifesto was all about freedom and it was turned into a jail.

When I went through depression I refused meds, self medicated with weed (don't take it as medical advice) and got through the end of it.

I'd blame the meds and recommend gently weaning off them. Once you feel better rebuilding a social life is absolutely possible.

Best of luck with everything

Eg. tell it to book a flight ticket for X without dealing with "modern UX" and 1GB websites

For now I consider smartphones as disposable toys that can't be trusted with anything sensitive and use a computer for privacy.

I also don't like the idea of running Android, I still hope for a real linux phone at some point.

I had to make a bunch of filters on my side.

One more reason to migrate to Proton

Large companies struggle to launch anything due to their staff size.

They're as inefficient as a government

Of course, English only

I don't have to worry about cloud providers ruining my life with updates, free cloudflare in front so I get caching.

It's not too bad but there is an initial investment

I don't get all these vibe coding tools when Claude is better than any of them

If there was a rust frontend framework that compiles to JS, I'd use it for all my frontend code.