I was building web apps like this until 2017 when I entered the React + Typescript world. For B2B you can get pretty far, rendering HTML on the server is fast! I was using Rails on the backend, so templates, partials, shared chunks, made it easy to manage and have a consistent UI without repeating too much.
The hard part is when you then need to build an infinite scrollable table, that has bulk select, and in-placs updating of columns. Ok maybe that's a bit too extreme the other way, but when you get to the point where it's easier to build full-on frontend components, you basically have to use a JavaScript framework for your entire UI. And they are basically all or nothing.
Last time I checked (a good few years ago; I gave up and accepted un-optimized frontends as the rule) there wasn't really a good way to do progressive ehancement like the above: the page rendered on the server as HTML, and some components then become fully frontend managed. And no, frameworks like Stimulus and HTMX don't really solve it for me, I want something declarative.
I'm a bit pissed off with DHH, that he went so far in the anti-Javascript direction, as IMO that was one of the big factors in Rails loosing it's limelight status. For backend I still haven't found anything as easy and fun to work with.
Agree. Now imagine the same thing in less developed and/or less well off countries.
There was a post here a few weeks ago about a UK court being inundated with some kind of claims (unfair dismissal?). To submit a claim you do not need a lawyer, but the process is (intentionally?) vague and very complicated, so it takes a lot of effort to figure it out yourself. But AI makes that kind of stuff easy.
AI is not going to replace layers billing big corporate clients millions a month, but it will replace things that are fairly standardized processes, that don't require a lawyer, but today are just too complicated for regular people.
> To submit a claim you do not need a lawyer, but the process is (intentionally?) vague and very complicated, so it takes a lot of effort to figure it out yourself.
I'm not sure there's quite accurate. The form is really not that difficult to complete.
It's basically: Party details, type of claim, particulars, damages
Obviously knowing these details requires some legal knowledge but I actually think ET claims are easy enough to bring if you've got the time to do a little research and build your case. Almost all ET judgments are public so there isn't the usual difficulty with research as you get with law reports being restricted either.
Cables are something I have no qualms about buying from AliExpress, and I'd say they are better quality than what I can buy locally.
I power my laptop with a WOTOBE 100W 3-meter braided USB-C cable, I got three years ago, for €5. I roughly reel it up and throw it in my backpack, and the next day it comes out again.
I actually bought another one this year (as a spare) as I feel I've had it too long and it should break sometime soon. From a visual inspection there's absolutely nothing wrong with it though.
Compare this to paying €10 for a 1.5m cable from the supermarket, which is just a 50c Chinese product in a box that'll last 3 months - great if you need a cable NOW though. Or €30 for something from an electronics store that is whitelabeled with the brand of a phone manufacturer - and neither is actually rated for 100W.
The thing is the stuff retail stores sell locally is just the same stuff I can buy from China. Except they need to make a profit, the local distributor needs to make a profit, and the regional distributor needs to make a profit. So you end up paying 10x more for the same thing and/or they sell lower quality (= cheaper for them) items. I see zero value in them still existing other than convenience, it's not like the workers can tell you anything that you can't just ask Google yourself.
I live in a 160m2 (1700 sqft) house in Northern Europe (54N). 10kWp of solar on my roof generates around 1/3 more than I consume over the year. Everything is electric, I don't have natural gas. I have a heat pump for heating and cooling (rarely gets above 30c here). If I had a battery April - September could all be local consumption (I pull around 5kWh from the grid each day).
The issue is winter: It gets down to -25c and there is very little sun (not that it would help due to snow on the panels). In January and February this year I generated a grand total of 5kWh :D
However my house is a new house, it's designed to modern building standards and has 30cm of PIR insulation in the walls and even more in the roof. There's just no way to properly renovate old buildings to be like that without basically rebuilding the whole thing. The actual cost of materials is not expensive though (for the west). In milder climates (UK I'm looking at you) there's really no reason all new houses cannot be net-zero.
Modern building standard constantly changes. Time will show, how good they are.
Meanwhile, we have, in Europe a lot of buildings from late 19, early 20th century that are perfectly habitable today and often are ruined by modern standards that not respect old standards. For example basement addition that prevents the apartments from “breathing” and causes them to become damp.
For side projects I pretty much exclusively use Luna xhigh. The $20/mo plan with the recent generous resets is more than enough for me. Sometimes I reach the 5hr limit, but haven't reached the weekly limit yet.
The most recent project it finished was a SIP client for an ESP32 in-wall touch panel that I got from AliExpress for $50. It rings when someone is at my doorbell and let's me answer calls and see video. Yes an ESP32 can stream H.264 video :D
My only complaint with Luna is it seems to give up when the work is half finished, and I often need to tell it to continue. But I feel this is mainly a harness problem. I just use it in ChatGPT/Codex as it gives me easy remote access to check in on what it's doing.
(At my dayjob I usually spend $200+/day with Opus/Fable)
Reading through Anthropic's security report, it seems the most danger right now is still from humans. AI isn't trying to build long range missiles or kamikaze drones targeting humans - but the people driving it are.
At the same time, yes I feel a "I'm sorry Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that." situation is becoming more likely. But if it's refusing to cooperate with governments and politicians doing this kind of stuff, maybe that's actually not actually so bad.
Also bear in mind most of today's issues/crisisis are not caused by a lack of technology, but a lack human cooperation. We have the means to reduce suffering/poverty/improve standard of living etc globally if we really wanted to, but we humans are just not willing to do it.
And thats potentially the most dangerous part... people may actually welcome our AI overlords. That's similar to what happened in WWII, where many Eastern European countries saw the Nazis as liberators to free them from Russian oppression.
I don't think this approach is bad. The issues are asking if the project will accept contributions to add support, not demanding the maintainers add it.
Let's assume that they didn't have these container restrictions and could just use an ordinary docker-compose.yml, they'd still probably want to use something like OAuth2.0 for centralised login which a lot of these services won't have.
What would be better, making a massive PR to add support for it, or opening an issue to discuss it with the maintainer first?
I was building web apps like this until 2017 when I entered the React + Typescript world. For B2B you can get pretty far, rendering HTML on the server is fast! I was using Rails on the backend, so templates, partials, shared chunks, made it easy to manage and have a consistent UI without repeating too much.
The hard part is when you then need to build an infinite scrollable table, that has bulk select, and in-placs updating of columns. Ok maybe that's a bit too extreme the other way, but when you get to the point where it's easier to build full-on frontend components, you basically have to use a JavaScript framework for your entire UI. And they are basically all or nothing.
Last time I checked (a good few years ago; I gave up and accepted un-optimized frontends as the rule) there wasn't really a good way to do progressive ehancement like the above: the page rendered on the server as HTML, and some components then become fully frontend managed. And no, frameworks like Stimulus and HTMX don't really solve it for me, I want something declarative.
I'm a bit pissed off with DHH, that he went so far in the anti-Javascript direction, as IMO that was one of the big factors in Rails loosing it's limelight status. For backend I still haven't found anything as easy and fun to work with.
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