Very cool! Always wondered how solo engineers deal with physical and shipping? I suppose there is some sort of API that allows prints and shipping on behalf?
First of all your situation and context is unique. Everyone has their own circumstances (including aging parents).
For many, even perhaps for you this is a reality. However for others its a fear of worst case scenario as a protection mechanism that served you when you were at a certain stage of life and many just kept it as a habit.
For a single grad without responsibilities after 3 years of working at a FAANG this fear of the future shackles them to explore and take calculated risks.
I've seen people with $20k in their savings account going for 1 year sabbatical describing it as transformational.
Its all priorities I guess and sometimes we can't say for every case that its actually the lack of agency that is holding you back.
Only you know for sure internally when reading this, if its making you uncomfortable and uneasy and if you have an emotional reaction.
For some, as mentioned its a reality and they are fully content with the limitations that they have and choices that they made in life that are now irreversible.
Up to everyone individually to evaluate their situation, however what is important to understand is that whether its really your context that is holding you hostage or just your fear.
This. I took breaks of 3-6 months in-between jobs to explore, learn and grow and it always led me to better opportunities, skill acquisition and moving to a better more stable life.
I have chats labeled as "Life" (coaching), "Health" (fetching some data on diets, exercise), "Tech" (discussing various code blocks".
One very uncomfortable but useful hack is when you feed it context, to ask "what are my blindspots", in fact sometimes I ask it to roast me where it reveals some uncomfortable truths that I am not willing to admit but because it sparks an emotional reaction, it makes me more self-aware.
Obviously this exists. The point was to express that this is not a reasonable way to exist.
Something has gone wrong for an adult human to be quite this fragile. Many people and even whole systems have failed them.
It's not about being uncaring or unsympathetic.
If you sympathise with someone like this (the ideas in the comment I responded to here more than the main article) because of the difficulty and unhappines of their state of existence, you should wish them to have been empowered to exist in the world without being flattened by the totally ordinary things that the world is full of that they will have to handle every day in ordinary life.
Totally, I think it also comes with a healthy detachment of the identity from work, because its only worth it in a personal context when working for yourself, not for another company.
There is probably a reason they did with a ground-up rebuild and partially this is because svelte 4 didn't enable universal reactivity and $ was more confusing than useful.
Furthermore <slot /> had limitations in terms of children which made it difficult to build UI libraries.
Svelte 5 now is actually simpler to learn for new comers despite higher verbosity.
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