To be fair, writing did destroy memory. It's just that in the very long summer of writing, which may now be coming to an end thanks to AI, we have considered the upside more than worth it.

That "track" gets increasingly illusory the farther you walk it.

It isn’t, but it’s not possible to get paid like that if your work isn’t a necessary component in the work that earns the company a lucrative payday.

Nooo, the character is such a wretched human that you can't help but root for him.

He's being an ass in order to push people to do better, and at the end of the day (over and over again) he cares about Justice or at least the National Interest, but he cares about the Slow Horses more (in his way).

The flatulanece (et al) works as a filter: can you see past the boorishness?

Is AI making component libraries redundant? Or is it just making it really easy to use free component libraries?

(Or is it really more about traffic to the documentation site and thus eyeballs on the sales pitch?)

I'm making an app using ShadCN, which is pretty good and free -- maybe Tailwind Plus would be significantly better, I don't know, I had to consider the possibility that this project never makes any money so I wanted free for the first shot. And the LLMs turn out to know it pretty well.

Once I get it built using ShadCN, it's hard to imagine when I'd have time to go redo all the component hackery with another library, even if it were way better.

I guess my point is just that "paid UI components" is a really tough business when there are so many people willing to make components just for the fun/glory/practice. Same with a lot of UI stuff it seems -- I highly respect icon designers, but I'm probably just going to use Lucide.

I think all kinds of libraries are becoming redundant. Unless the library solves significant technical problems its likely AI will generate whatever you need. Even tailwind itself is kind of unnecessary, I've used it a lot, but recently been just using AI to generate raw css on side projects, I feel it works pretty well. Tailwind is really a developer convivence, it made things pretty fast to style, but now I don't really think it has anywhere near the advantages it did. If you aren't writing tailwindcss but generating it, almost all the advantage is gone. Only thing it kind of provides is a set of defaults / standards

I've known of the paid components for years and never thought of buying them. It's so easy to build things with Tailwind that it never crossed my mind.

Fwiw I don’t even think shadcn is good, but our app is built on top of those components already, so we can’t change it without changing everything, so we’re stuck with it.

I was a big TM user who ended up on ST because I needed more of the community integrations and so on... which are now turning into a weakness of ST.

I'm still on SublimeText because I can't deal with the sluggishness of VS Code, and I'll pay for the latest version, but I am starting to worry about the future of what is still a great editor. Rust coding in particular is a bit of a nightmare.

The sad thing is that both of these were the products of business models I enthusiastically support and want to see more of: the solo dev (TM) and the small business (ST), or maybe it's solo dev pretending to be small business, I can't really tell.

> or maybe it's solo dev pretending to be small business, I can't really tell.

Certainly small business :)

Best example of this is when they hit someone. Train has to stop, control center has no say in it.

(For longer “technical” delays, keep an eye out for emergency vehicles without their sirens on.)

> Train has to stop, control center has no say in it.

And then you have cascading delays across a whole region.

Immo being real estate (Immobilien), for the curious.

Tech:

1. Rust, I quite like it but I still need AI assistance.

2. Desktop app dev, I'm making one in Tauri and love it, now I want to "go native."

3. Lower-level AI stuff, so far everything has been with APIs, and while that's great it feels a little too abstract.

4. Leetcode pattern matching. (Grumble grumble, but when job-hunting in Rome...)

Differently tech:

5. City driving. Thanks @kenrick95 for reminding me!

6. Color grading, and video editing in general.

7. The Thai language (speaking and reading).

8. Writing for the public.

Color grading is pretty interesting. Please share good resources if you find some.

I’ve found Darren Mostyn’s videos quite helpful:

https://youtu.be/YbDRl_xugJo

Also Daniel Batal, more in the “tips and tricks” category but very accessible:

https://youtube.com/@daniel_batal

These are both DaVinci Resolve specific. For more general info I found it useful to do some googling around LUTs.

I find the big downside of color grading is it makes you really want a camera that records RAW video.

Great idea!

Although I have "known" how to drive for a long time, I didn't get my formal license until much later in life than most people, for similar reasons to yours.

Now that I have it, I kick myself for not doing this earlier, but as they say: the best time was ten years ago, the second-best time is now.

Owing to the city life I often go up to six months without driving anywhere, but when I finally get out on the road again it feels great. Country driving is amazing, in any country where people drive safely. It's even pretty nice where they don't. City driving still stresses me out, but I'm determined to get better at it.

Good luck! If you find yourself having trouble getting the license in Singapore, there are other countries where you could get a license more easily, and with that license you could drive in third countries.

There is/was a space invader about 50m from my door in Budapest when I lived there.

It was pretty subtle and I’m sure most people walking by it didn’t even notice. I really liked it, especially the fact that it was impossible to know whether it was a Genuine Space Invader or merely a space invader.