A few months ago, I stopped reading random news and decided to stick only to Hacker News. But now, even Hacker News is filled with random content.
I guess there's no escaping the news these days.
Talking about armed brinksmanship between two nuclear powers is sooooo random, maybe a more specialized community like they have on Reddit is more your speed?
Developers always had the flexibility to create custom UI elements/colors etc even in native apps (albeit not as easily as using CSS). Even in SPAs, most UI elements follow the same style or pattern more or less (bootstrap/tailwind etc). It's the entire UI design itself that's not user friendly for enterprise/business apps (excessive padding, comically large UI elements etc).
> What’s wrong with people working for rent or groceries?
There's nothing wrong with people who have the ability to work for groceries being compelled to work for groceries. The rent issue is complicated by the fact that land ownership prioritizes those who have already had time to accumulate wealth over those who have not. There are some issues with abandoning prices on land entirely (e.g. if land has no cost, how do we decide who gets to live in the most desirable locations?), but there's a compelling case to be made that the contemporary system of real estate financialization is similar to the enclosure movement both in terms of its structure and impact. It becomes a question of those with good credit (typically the rich and old) being able to (in aggregate) buy up all of the desirable land and thus to set monthly claims on the income of those with bad credit over and above the level of claim that would be possible if the property purchases could not be financed by loans.
There is a legitimate cost to constructing a building and renting it out, but there is no real cost to land except the cost the market assigns to it. This might not be the worst thing (recall our example of allocating land in desirable locations), but when prospective landlords can take out loans against the property, the property's value is driven up beyond what any reasonable person would be willing to pay for the property's use. If you couldn't derive rental income from property, it would not make economical sense to finance these purchases beyond what you needed for your own use. This would (in theory) lead to lower prices.
I'd travel the world, taking in diverse centers of culture, history, and nature. I'd try to learn new languages. I'd do more track days, karting, and Ultimate. I'd buy a shell and try to get back into rowing. I'd play more computer games. I'd play ping-pong, foosball, and board games with my kids. I'd coach kids' sports. I'd go to more plays and concerts. Even movies. I'd volunteer.
Of course I wouldn't do ALL of that, since even without work there are only so many hours in the day. But I certainly wouldn't want for things to do!
Some people do all that and still work, you probably just need better time management. You could study a language before work in the morning, and then go row for a bit. Then go to work. Then you could play computer games from 5 to 6, play ping pong with kids from 6 to 6:30, eat a dinner, coach kids soccer from 7 to 8, volunteer open source from 8:30 to 9:30, catch a movie at 10.
If you're wealthy and healthy, and even so only some of that timeline _may_ be possible, most just unrealistic.
>You could study a language before work in the morning, and then go row for a bit.
Ok, gotta be in by 9am, 30-60 minutes commute, 30 minutes learning a language, gotta eat, shower, coffee, get my row boat mounted and at the lake 20 minutes away, prep, do a 20 minute row, back again so realistically you'd need to be up at 6am, not unreasonable.
> Then go to work. Then you could play computer games from 5 to 6
Did you end work at 4pm or work from home, either way that is likely a short day but ok. A lot of people are forced to have commutes or work in a job that can't be remote, not to mention work much longer days. Hell isn't "60 hours is the sweet spot" for a work week now? (quoting Google's founder recent comments).
> play ping pong with kids from 6 to 6:30,
Have enough room to have a ping pong table at home, that must be nice, but yeah doable.
> eat a dinner, coach kids soccer from 7 to 8,
Who cooked dinner? Who cleaned up? That shit doesn't just happen by itself. So you prepped, cooked, ate and cleaned up, wrangled kids into car for soccer, and got the game field ready to play all in 30 minutes? Nope.
> volunteer open source from 8:30 to 9:30,
Game ended on time, kids didn't hang around to talk to team mates, straight in the car, no issues, and less than 30 minutes transport. Nope.
> catch a movie at 10.
30 minutes to get kids to bed, baby sitter on time (and you can afford one), doable at some ages sure. Movies are regularly 90-180 minutes so you're in bed at like 1am? For a 6am start? Again transport not taken into account.
The reason people think you can work 60 hours a week, every week, is because they don't do all the everyday things that need to get done, they have other people to do it. Also rarely do they leave enough gaps in their schedule for other peoples priorities.
Assume you WFH, 9 to 5. Commute time is zero. You have a middle class suburban house with a lake in the back. Your partner is a stay at home parent, does not work, just does household tasks and takes care of kids.
You wake up at 7. Quick 15 minute breakfast then push your kayak out to the lake and row 45 minutes on the water.
From 8 to 9, you can study a foreign language (same duration as a university course)
At 5 you can game for an hour and decompress. Then ping pong at 6.
By the time you finish ping pong with kids at 6:30, you’ve spent 90 minutes just playing around. Time for dinner, prepared by your partner. Kids have 25 minutes to get dress for soccer and eat dinner. The soccer field should be no more than 5 minute drive from your home.
After the game ends at 8:30, you could schedule an additional 20 minutes for your children’s frivolity if you like. Once you drive home you can cut down to 30 minutes working on open source stuff. A small sacrifice for their joy.
Send kids to their rooms by 9:30. Let them sleep whenever they feel like as long as they are quiet and in their room. Spend time with your partner and prepare yourselves for the night out.
By 9:45 the baby sitter arrives and you two head out for the movies. A baby sitter can be very cheap if your kids are older, often they are just a high school student doing homework or watching TV while your kids sleep or play. Don’t need a PHD.
You could be home by 1 AM depending on movie length. 6 hours of sleep is good enough, you can do it all again the next day.
It’s very doable, especially if you decide you don’t actually want to follow the same schedule everyday.
This schedule, even as a theory, assumes you work from home and have a partner who does not work and a babysitter? I don't actually know what percent of families that describes, but my guess is it's pretty low
Okay but at some point you have to make choices to work toward the life you want, it’s not just going to happen by accident with you chasing whatever you can, and that’s what people don’t understand.
If you want this schedule, prioritize a WFH career and find a partner who wants to stay home and earn enough money to hire a babysitter. If you don’t then this won’t be available to you and it’s your own fault.
But even without a job, you still need energy and motivation. The tax of switching between tasks (or hobbies) doesn’t magically disappear. Neither does the time suck of social media.
I want effort, lot's of it, but let's not nitpick ...
Off the top of my head: Nobel Prize winning, world-beneficial research; lots of loving, open, deeply connected relationships; grow rapidly; be someone people turn to for support (because I help them), ...
I think if you let your imagination wander and you end up seeing the scale of potential we have and what we could really achieve, stuff like paying for rent and groceries starts to feel archaic and wasteful, or as some kind of artificial constraint holding us back as a species.
Not sure if you’ve intentionally omitted it but I would also include YouTube in this list. YouTube can be very addictive with all the clickbait thumbnails etc.
> Not sure if you’ve intentionally omitted it but I would also include YouTube in this list
Yeah I did conciously omit it actually, but only because I consider Youtube to be basic internet infrastructure and quite valuable if used right.
However, for me personally, I've actually blocked Youtube from Chrome when not in incognito mode to keep me signed out by default and I've also completely blocked the site from my iPad (and ofc I also don't have the app installed).
I unfortunately struggle with some form of social media addiction and I've made pretty dramatic changes to keep myself away from these sites.
haha yeah that's where you inject custom CSS on the page to hide thumbnails, come to YouTube to see something? no thumbnails to distract your original intent
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In my experience, it's worth keeping source files as small as possible. Windsurf regularly has problems with files that are larger than 300 lines, especially if they are not JS/TS files.
Not sure if it's just me but I kind of feel like these components are not very polished - at least not to the point of Bootstrap/AntDesign. May be it's the square unrounded borders or may be it's just the way the demo components are presented.
Cool landing page! Interestingly, I don't see any type of navigation menu (such as a hamburger menu) in the mobile page. Any particular design reason why you opted for that?
Please write down any ideas you may have, at any time. It's rare that an idea will come the moment you sit down with a blank screen staring at you.
I've talking to emailing myself with a specific subject every time I have an idea. Doesn't matter how silly it is. I'll revisit them in a month and sift through. Some still remain silly, some will be upgraded given new knowledge.
I felt like this for a long time, then I started to open my eyes to all the problems around me. For example, I started github.com/rmpr/atbswp because I used something like that on Windows, and when I switched to Linux I missed it, on simple solution was to start working on something similar...
