The experience has degraded to the point where hotels are just better most of the time. Hosts these days tend to be commercial, unresponsive and have an unreasonable number of stipulations. I’m not really sure how you fix that, seems unavoidable with the scale they’re operating at.

I volunteered a few years ago and had a great experience.

I love the product but this is a really aggressive price update and makes me concerned they’ll try to gouge me in years to come.

That book is so painful to read because of that lol.

I did frontend before React, and it was a welcomed change. The core insight of UI being a function of state is a good one. It saves you a bunch of headaches from the jQuery days where you’d have multiple code paths per UI element (adding, removing, mutating). That said I think they lost the plot with hooks and things have gotten needlessly complex since then.

> The core insight of UI being a function of state is a good one.

We had that before, it was called HATEOAS.

After reading Careless People and watching Meta’s metaverse and AI moves, Mark comes across as a child chasing the shiny new thing.

it's not really a fair characterisation, because he persisted for nearly 10 years dumping enormous investment into the VR business, and still is to this day. Furthermore, Meta's AI labs predated all the hype and the company was investing and highly respected in the area way before it was "cool".

If anything, I think the panic at this stage is arising from the sense of having his lunch stolen after having invested so much and for so long.

“What kids told us about how to get off cigarettes”

While I agree there’s a problem with how helicopter-y society is with kids these days, I think it’s ridiculous to expect kids to resist a device that is designed to be addictive. Teams of tens of thousands of the most highly skilled people in the world are laser focused on squeezing every second of attention out of _adults_ let alone kids. We need regulation, full stop. I don’t know what that looks like, but if you’ve ever seen a toddler scrolling TikTok like a zombie you should know what’s at stake.

It's probably just good old-fashioned greed. Worked for X and Reddit, why wouldn't it work for them?

I wasn’t justifying the move, just a related thought that came up after seeing a few articles about Neon and Supabase having an explosion of new apps.

Uhm, having a weather api is probably the easiest thing to implement because of how catchable it is. Any public api accidental can be prevented by tiered rate-limiting:

- uber low limits for anon access

- low, but reasonable for register free users

- Up-to-you for paid users

You might say: well, proxies are cheaper than paid plan, and solution to that - charge reasonable price.

you should see what happened when people finally understood XMLHttpRequest!

Why build your own community software? Sounds like a waste of resources, there are many off the shelf and open source alternatives.

Linear is the move. Do not consider Shortcut.