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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

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

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.

I post infrequently but try to keep it interesting

Talk excerpt talking about Angular directives ~8 years ago! https://youtu.be/lGdnh8QSPPk?t=275

I took unemployment.

Positive benefits: I mellowed out, started having more patience, and could see how a big source of burnout was how attached my ego was to my work.

I started working on a link shortener a couple of months ago. Despite it being a hobby project that a lot of folks undertake, building something resilient that is somewhat well-designed is a lot of work. Biggest benefit: I started looking at programming as more of something that I'm capable of instead of my self worth / value on display in pull requests.

> Did you return to your old job?

Nope.

> Would you have done anything differently?

More routine. It's liberating to be able to do what you want, as you want, but I would posit that a majority of humans thrive on routines.

> Is there anything bad out of the sabbatical that you didn't expect?

Friends and family being concerned for my well-being despite my spirits being much higher

Admittedly, it's pretty hard to roll your own DDoS. If I was on bare metal or a service that doesn't provide its own DDoS protection, I would absolutely use something like Cloudflare despite all of the downsides.

Perhaps, what is most interesting is that it took nearly 4-5 years for the front-end community to collectively come to the conclusion that SPAs are not _always_the answer. I don't think the zeal for SPAs came from a bad place either. I can remember how poorly ASP.NET and other frameworks of the 2008-2012 era packaged an overcomplicated way to pass data to view layers. There's lots of curmudgeon-ining from non-frontend folks but, in my opinion, the lack of performance and ergonomics with existing frameworks, combined with the newness of Node.js is what brought about the explosion of tooling and frameworks.

There is a place for SPAs, though. VS Code, Spotify, and other apps that need a desktop / browser experience to feel like a mobile app are great candidates. Twitter, for example, shouldn't be a SPA or SPA-like application. I find that it frequently over-caches content and will randomly refresh my feed at times while I'm browsing. It feels as if a simple web page that needs to deliver more JSON responses as I scroll is trying to do too much.

1 - https://github.com/unpoly/unpoly

2 - https://coffeescript.org/#changelog

Ruby ~Rails~ found the middleground where major/minor versions[1] typically land in December. Rails[2] typically follows which gives users ample time to upgrade along with a migration guide

1 - https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/downloads/releases/

2 - https://rubygems.org/gems/rails/versions

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