I applaud the efforts by Softcatalà, The Mozilla Common Voice Catalan Community, AINA, etc. but there is a long way to go, and the damage is being done now.

I left looking for low-friction answers to my need to organize tabs and content. I didn't love giving up control to some central organization to process my data, but I had promised myself I'd write one or two extensions to answer my needs "next week" for years.

After doing some research, most of what I wanted already exists. Sidebery, Tab Wrangler and the new Agents window (with some styling to eliminate the default tab list), together with my other old friends like uBlock Origin, Auto Tab Discard (suspend) and a number of container-related extensions, deliver the same functionality I found elsewhere, without taking control from me.

Plus, this is just me, but chromium-based browsers manage to get my m3 pro macbook with 36GB RAM hot pretty consistently with normal use. I noticed the moment I left Firefox. And I noticed the problem gone as soon as I went back to Firefox.

I have often criticized Mozilla, because I care that Firefox remains the best browser, not just an alternative worth keeping.

Code reviews are also an opportunity for learning, and provide real-life scenarios to inform decisions that are otherwise not grounded and mostly opinion. Of course, not all comments and discussions should block approval, but there is a balance. No one is going to die if this feature is delayed by a few days if you get a better result _and_ are investing in team growth.

I use Effect CLI https://github.com/Effect-TS/effect/tree/main/packages/cli for the same reasons. It has the advantage of fitting within the ecosystem. For example, I can reuse existing schemas.

My >10 yo macbooks also have bad batteries. One of them won't last one minute, and will also overheat with minor workloads. They were not immune to overheating when new, but unreasonable overhearing (for the time) definitely didn't become an issue at within 3 years of purchase.

And that's with Intel macbooks. My M1 from Dec 2020 works like new (I'm sure the battery life has shortened, but not in a way that I notice). It overheated a couple times running LLMs—that's it. That's how I know the fans work.

It's hard to find similarly mature and complete solutions. In the JS/TS world, I like where Drizzle is going, but there is an unavoidable baseline complexity level from the runtime and the type system (not to criticize type systems, but TS was not initially built with this level of sophistication in mind, and it shows in complexity, even if it is capable).

And the browser takes care of the rendering.

Good times.

In my case, I live in the United States, but Google is determined to serve me Spanish results even for Catalan-related queries. E.g. preferring the Spanish Wikipedia. The search engine's behavior has had ups and downs over the years, but it has never been great.

This is very much a problem for my children, who don't understand Spanish, as well as for the Catalan-speaking regions of the world that are not in Spain, including Andorra.

In my experience, Gemini easily flags any Catalan content as unsafe and prevents the conversation from continuing. Even for prompts like "summarize this article". This may have improved lately, but still.

Google used to be an example in sensitivity to the world's diversity, being a responsible major player. Way back. Now, although I applaud some efforts multiple teams continue making, it is obvious this is no longer a priority.