Read this thread. Can't say I’m surprised in the least. I have been and will continue to be _deeply skeptical_ of Gatsby's VC-fueled business trajectory.
Oh hey, the new site is up, which means it's time for A Thread about Gatsby (1/??) twitter.com/GatsbyJS/statu…
😼😼😼 it’s almost like people still have valuable skills to contribute to media if they don’t live in NYC or DC (remember all radio signals are local, don’t pretend they can only be programmed in 2 cities)
With its internships now remote, "NPR received a whopping 20,520 applications for 27 internship positions this fall, compared to 2,597 applications for 55 slots last year...

That one scene in Westworld when Ed Harris/William fights to not get in the car was lowkey emotional.

Today would have been a year at Glitch.

I’m starting to understand the value behind things like IPFS and Dat more. I am always concerned about funding (which is why Dat tends to attract me more and they’re building closer to things I’m more invested in seeing). But the tooling of IPFS looks more attractive.

Time to read.

What’s some new stuff we’re building with the open social Web? Need to cleanse my palette a bit.

The genius of the web is that there are virtually infinite number of ways to design, build, and publish web content and apps. Consolidating power into the hands of a few, even if it's an open source tool, is folly. May a thousand flowers bloom.

“I’m tired of company indifference dictating the developer mindset.”
A bar.

“Worse, if we still want that creativity we create things like scraping and what-not to work-around solved problems. That’s not progress, it’s a shitty hack.”
Yup.

http://decafbad.net/2020/08/11/rss-or-why-lack-of-developer-imagination-will-be-the-end-of-the-open-web/

“Our goal is blatantly ambitious: Gatsby is defining next-generation web development itself, to become the standard for how the web is built.” LOLOLOLOLOL Seriously, their marketing materials are so ridiculous and over-the-top. Barf.
Wow, an ftp server. How did that work again?
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The @mozilla layoffs are sad news. Diversity and competition in the browser ecosystem is important. At the same time, it’s wildly expensive and hard to build and maintain modern browsers. What organizations out there could both do this and be trusted to do it?
Here’s an open and accepted feature request for uniqueness constraints in GCP’s NoSQL database, now 12 years old and counting. issuetracker.google.com/issues/35875869
Hey all you tech billionaires out there: y'all owe a HUGE debt to Mozilla for making your life what it is. Maybe consider donating to the foundation to keep it alive? Mozilla was instrumental in making the web a thing we care about, plus creating Javascript and pushing standards
Just ate some breakfast pie. How's your day going? 🥧

https://twitter.com/surface/status/1293531202104811521 I still don’t understand why this is running Android. Outside of the fact that Microsoft still gets royalites off Android (https://www.howtogeek.com/183766/why-microsoft-makes-5-to-15-from-every-android-device-sold/). inb4 adoption, they have the money and “mindshare” to push their agenda. Are they just going the Samsung route?

Aaaarrrrggghhh. The fact that in decades of being a web developer I've never given a penny to Mozilla is an indictment on their ability to properly monetize their products. I gladly pay for tons of other online services and crowdfunding campaigns. It's bananas.
Sad to hear that the Mozilla MDN team was part of the layoffs yesterday. It's one of the greatest resources for Web development. @mozilla ... If you're no longer able to...
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