Think of how truly horrendous it would be if every browser had the JVM built in and Oracle was calling the shots on the language the whole web is written on? How much would they be charging for a license?

And with the security fixes only landing on the relatively recent PHP versions, it means vulnerabilities force you into the PHP upgrade churn.

I finished moving the remainder of my stuff off of PHP and WordPress last year and haven't missed it at all. Backwards compatibility was typically pretty bad.

It seemed like maintaining existing working PHP code was always a cycle of: upgrade to newer PHP, that version has breaking changes, fix that code or update to a new WordPress (plus all of the plugins that would inevitably need updating too).

Those business rules, daylights savings (datetimes that can never happen, or happen twice), different M/D/Y ordering, different starting day of week, different timezones (including 15 or 30 minute offset ones like India, Iran, parts of Australia, etc), etc quickly complicate it. Oh, and don't forget about making it accessible.

That's before you even get into designers who want the date picker to look the same across platforms instead of using platform specific UI widgets...

I'm pretty sure my version of hell would be implementing a date picker until all stakeholders are happy with it (eternity).

Never mind that when Microsoft licensed Java from Sun for IE3 and IE4, Sun sued Microsoft. Sun wanted to be the only distributor of Java, just like Adobe was with Flash. So, browsers wouldn't have actually included a Java runtime out of the box without licensing/paying Sun for it. I'm sure that dependency would have only gotten even better under Oracle.

Those of us old enough to remember the web with plugins, don't miss plugins.

- The cost savings are as much as a car payment. >$100/week in gas when my entire household electric bill averages only $200/month. Up until this recent issue at 85k miles, I've had $0 in maintenance costs (excluding tires). Those same miles in an ICE would have cost me about $2000 in oil changes and brakes by now.

- Getting gas sucks. Sure, it is easier to get gas than charge an EV at a public charger. But it is far more convenient to charge at home every day. In 10 years, I've used a public charger maybe 10 times, but I have to get gas at least once a week. Would you rather have a phone with 6-7 days of energy but you had to drive to a dirty gas station to fill it, or just plug it in every night?

- ICE range anxiety when I have a quarter tank left. I know I can get gas all over the place, but it is pretty rare that my EV has as little range in it at the start of the day as this ICE vehicle with a quarter tank left. Either I go to the gas station more frequently, or I have to account for going to a gas station before driving 30-40 miles away.

- EV powertrains are so much better than gas powertrains. More powerful, smoother, quieter, drive better especially due to the better weight distribution (front to back, and height of the center of gravity).

I can't wait to get my EV back.

It is also a PWA though, so you can install the player (e.g. from my github pages test version: https://pseudosavant.github.io/player.html/player.html), and then use it as a local video player for any video file in your OS, like directly from the smb share if it is mounted.

The Ford Edsel is widely regarded as one of the greatest car flops of all time and it sold 60k cars per year for their 2-year production run.

The CyberTruck is a massively bigger flop than that.

No required third-party dependencies (just the optional Google Drive and OneDrive features). Highly customizable (colors, site logo, default features) with a JSON file the player can produce. Responsively scales for any web browser: laptop, mobile, smart TVs, game consoles, even built-in in-car tablet browsers.

https://github.com/pseudosavant/player.html/

But when the powers that be are intent to kill off "DEI", and their definition includes anything related to women, this is what happens. Too many business cowards don't want to have problems with their merger, acquisition, IPO, FCC license, etc for supporting celebrating a great American like this, just because she was a woman.

A couple of UX thoughts I had while using it:

1. Since the chords are all within a specific key, have you considered using the numbers 1 through 7 to play the respective chords? That way playing a 1-4-5 or a 2-5-1 would be very intuitive?

2. Have you considered using modifier keys (shift, ctrl, alt) to control whether a chord is strummed down versus up (e.g. pressing A would be down, but Shift+A would be up) or major/minor (A would be major, Alt+A would be minor)? I guess Ctrl could be a 7th chord modifier too.

Just some thoughts. Great tool!

Ultimately, it was easier for the Node ecosystem to adopt those changes into Node than it was to migrate to a different JS runtime like Deno. Bun would likely not exist without Deno too.

A full copy of the indexable web isn't a creative work at all. It isn't a collection that has been curated, it is just the whole thing.

It is like Anthropic wants Claud to be the pious antithesis of Grok. Although their ideals are far apart, the end result is they'll both violate your privacy if its suits their worldview.

It is just like if someone scoured the internet for images and sold them in a book as a collection. They couldn’t do that without rights to those images.

Now imagine that the book “author” says you can’t copy the images from the book because they claim to own those images, without any copyright of any kind.

That is what they are trying to do. But with a different kind of copyrighted work.