Well, no ads, just saying. I am using this myself.
I use excalidraw a lot and it's hard to manage different drawings. So the fact that each drawing is one note is great.
Further, publishing the drawing on a hosted instance gives you a permalink to it, so you would actually never need to export a drawing and would have a live reference.
I think this integration is really useful.
And yes, I did not find my old account, so I created a new one :-)
Svelte(kit) renewed my love for web development. It gets out of the way when i want it to, is build on web standards so i'm not stuck on annoying "gotchas", and has all the tools I need to build something without pulling in 20 dependencies just to build a basic app.
After being a skeptic of svelte 5, its fully captured me.
The direction React/NextJS has taken modern web development is a modern day abomination. I say this as a passionate fullstack developer whos worked for YC startups and a fortune 10 company within the past decade. I appreciate Vercel as a company too; I have no hate towards them but the NextJS 13 release almost made me quit web development.
Svelte is an absolute love language to the web and a direction for healing the damage caused by modern "web frameworks". It's the absolute direction we need to head in.
Here's something beautiful. I'm teaching my brother-in-law programming to get a job when he's out of the military. He's learning JS/CSS/HTML and doing quite well. With about a 2 minute tutorial of how Svelte works; he was able to start creating some pretty impressive projects. A day later because he already knew the basics of how the web works, he was in Sveltekit building fullstack apps -_-.
So glad to see someone else say this. NextJS 13 was (is) a complete an utter disaster.
I took on a reasonable-size project around that time and the documentation was incomplete, no library worked on it. Mystery caching and fetch-call deduplication all over the place. It was horrific. I wonder if things have improved since.
The trick is to just stick to the Pages Router in Next. The app router and RSC is still too early to use, imo, and needs at least another version or two to gain some support.
React and NextJS, although technically part of the same sub ecosystem, have very different approaches to DX, backwards compatibility, marketing and commercialization...
I've been enjoying Astro+Svelte. I tried using Sveltekit and couldn't really get into it; I'm sure there are situations where it would be better than Astro + Svelte, but I don't know what they would be.
For a weekend/side project that needs db and storage, why would I spend days correctly setting up, securing, and provisioning all my infra when I could just pay a little extra and never worry about it?
When creating a new project I wear all hats. Project management, UX/UI designing, Frontend, Backend, Infra, User testing, security.
Having to maintain multiple projects that all bring income in as a solo developer wearing all the hats is very time consuming, this is an absolute godsend and I'll pay for the DX happily.
But also I just started a side project with Rails. I got a CI/CD production environment with GitHub Actions, Postgres, Redis, sidekiq, and storage on Fly.io in an hour or two.
The thing that makes me more comfortable here is that none of my application code references Fly.io at all. If the project needs to grow beyond Fly I just change some environment variables and migrate the data.
My guess - people think it is fooling unsophisticated customers into making poor financial choices and buying things they should know they can't afford.
But I'm with you, I don't see it as a big deal. I routinely take advantage of the 'no interest installment plan' for my Apple toy purchases on my Apple card. Why wouldn't I want to hold off on giving them my money for as long as possible, especially in an inflationary environment?
Responsible people have already a lot of easy choices for short term free money. Banks almost literally throw credit cards at people, with 45-60 days without any charge (and even with cashback) - assuming that you can afford it.
It’s free to end consumer, but these schemes make money by charging a percentage to merchants. And those merchants will compensate by bumping up their prices a little to cover the transaction costs.
In the best case, these are pointless services that only transfer money to the finance industry. In the worst case, they incentivize people to spend money on things they can’t afford (and also transfer money to the finance industry).
That is often the case, but not always: It can make perfect sense for a merchant to effectively pay the interest on your purchase, if it means the difference between making a sale now (and getting a bit less than list price) vs. sitting on inventory.
If it's not the merchant paying for the loan, the story is very different though.
Honestly though, the original comment was just a plea for more competition to drive innovation it seems.
Most of the data scientists I've worked with are programmer hobbyists as well. We've used Javascript/Python/Go/R. Maybe this will exist for people in that demographic, those who are data scientists that already are solid in programming.
This is an extremely sad sellout and a poor and obvious effort to monopolize. The fact we all know whats coming is a sign Adobe should not exist as a company anymore with the way they can treat end users/products and still get away with it.
I'm sure the people at Sketch are currently throwing a party that can be seen halfway across the world though.
I wish this company succeeded with its mission, but it turned into a variant of Hackerrank I feel. I hate leetcode/hackerrank type interviews. On the hiring side of things where the company I work for screens candidates this way; it sucks. I would have loved to see a test of more practical programming experience.
Candidates spend their time on stupid coding questions all day instead of actually coding something useful or that they can learn from. I have a relative doing exactly this. No idea how to build a simple RESTful API, yet spends all his time on Hackerrank posting on linkedIn how he's in the top 'X' percent.
When they get hired and put on a "real world" project they are absolutely lost :(.
I also tried Triplebyte after seeing ads on Reddit. Passed a few tests and nothing really ever came of it other than an email.
To me a big part of the appeal to Triplebyte is that their variant is one that does reflect real world programming. Their general coding quiz shows you written code and asks you to find the bug or fill in the blank - things very similar to day to day activities when working on an existing application. AFAIK there isn't anything about tricky algorithms, either.
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