> Fundamentals of Physics by Halliday, Resnick, Walker
I strongly recommend this textbook. I used in college, and it's really good. There are a lot of problems for each chapter, I suggest doing them as they help a lot.
It's kinda wild to take something people really like and just keep re-writing it while keeping the same name.
They were around when Angular 1 -> Angular 2 right? No one liked that. Angular 2 is good but calling it Angular 2 when it was so different put a bad taste in everyone's mouth.
Google did that because they wanted the Angular userbase, but that alienated a bunch devs and many decided to switch to React (me included) instead.
Seems the remix/react router team is trying to do the same. They built something popular, and they want to use that to launch their new ideas.
They want to have their cake and eat it too, a built in userbase and explore new ideas. I get it, but why not use another name so people don't get confused or frustrated?
> Google did that because they wanted the Angular userbase
I'm okay with that, because when it came out I was considered part of the Angular workforce, so I was hired to work with a framework I knew very little about at the time.
These guys are really, really obsessed with download counts. They brag a lot about that in twitter every time they have a chance.
What they want to reuse is the package name.
So now they launch whatever bullshit they are playing with now under the “remix” package and the next day they’ll say “look… we have N thousands downloads per second!!! We are so successful”
They did this multiple times. And will keep doing it because they are obsessed with this.
After ChatGPT Atlas came out I thought it would be fun to find UI patterns that AI browsers couldn't figure out like multiple download buttons, hidden unsubscribe buttons, etc. So I created 7 levels of web dark patterns for AI browsers. You can try it yourself if you want:
I found Atlas can get through most patterns, so I created an even more unhinged one (job application form) that shifts the interface and flashes content.
Don't take it too seriously as actually testing AI browsers, it just a fun side project. I documented the patterns here: https://codinhood.com/anti-ai-ui/about
AI seems obvious, but social video? Are they saying people watch TikToks instead of reading Wikipedia, or people who used to look things up don’t bother anymore because of TikTok?
I'm sure they do. Is that their primary source? Do they use nothing else? Is any of that information put to economic use in their lives or is it just curiosity?
The line of questioning was about news and knowledge, not ads. Ads in anything will affect people's purchases, so that's not evidence for what that question was actually going for.
> This distinction is important. Sometimes, creating a separate service is the scrappy thing to do, sometimes creating a monolith is. Sometimes not creating anything is the way to go.
I think this hits the nail on the head. People are trying to find the "one true way" for microservices vs monoliths. But it doesn't exist. It's context dependent.
It's like the DRY vs code duplication conversation. Trying to dictate that you will never duplicate code is a fool's errand, in the same way that duplicating code whenever something is slightly different is foolish.
This perfectly captures my thoughts about the situation.
I don't know why they're so resistant to do treat SPAs as a completely valid way to use React in 2025. The majority of devs still use React primarily as a SPA. Recent State of React has it at 85% for SPA and 63% for SSR (1). Probably they know their answer is unpopular and thus we get a lot of deflection and phrases like "you should only consider a SPA if you have unusual constraints" whatever that's suppose to mean.
I've said it before, but changes don't happen when random devs like me complain, because I'm easy to ignore. So I really appreciate you specifically bringing this topic up, it really helps to get things going.
This has been my exact issue with giving up reddit. It's really hard to replace very niche topics without it, since many online forums are dead. I also append so many searches on google with "reddit" because the top results are generally SEO spam.
Reading "You should quit reddit" helped a little. The author tries to reframe your hidden beliefs about reddit like "finding useful information" or "it's filled with experts." Helped me to realize I was spending more time reading about my hobbies than actually doing them. Though I understand it's not that simple, doing requires more energy, etc.
My approach, finally mostly successful after over a decade, is just "no main feed or subreddit pages." Reading a thread off a Google search or whatever because it has information I want is fine.
Yeah it's interesting because on the one hand you're adding one more step to login. You're adding friction. On the other hand, it's pretty obviously a good security practice.
I wonder what the product and stakeholders discussed. Were there metrics on how many users they might lose with this?
I strongly recommend this textbook. I used in college, and it's really good. There are a lot of problems for each chapter, I suggest doing them as they help a lot.