"After getting VC funding, the focus also seemed to be more revenue and profit driven."

Why is it that almost always "VC funding" turns everything into bullcrap? :|

"Why is it that almost always "VC funding" turns everything into bullcrap?"

Because the goal of capital is more capital. Doing ethical things and contributing to commons doesn't align with such goal.

So every time "investors" arrive the outcome is known.

Opened the blog... then the main page and I'm still not 100% what it is... looks like collab-editor? but has own format (not markdow or latex)?

Typst is an open-source alternative to latex and typst.app is their closed-source collaborative web editor.

It's more of a LaTeX alternative, which also happens to have an official web app.

The engine itself is open source, so you can always just install it and compile your documents on the command line.

This! I already mentioned this a while back and was basically berated (by someone that seemed like a dev/close to dev) that current setup is just fine and because of postgress complexity (extensions) it has to be done that way... and while I like postgress a lot it's quite annoying that the upgrade is such a terrible experience... :|

I suspect it’s also a bit of stockhold syndrome on behalf of admins haha

Or better yet - "guarding the job", i.e. making their job very important ;)

Very true. At a prior company, we rolled out a simpler and easier to use admin console for our enterprise product and all the customer admins hated it.

Because now it was easy to use hah.

We ended up rolling it back because the hate was so consistent.

(And no, this wasn’t us guessing or making this up - a number of them were quite explicit that we were threatening their roles, and to stop it.)

Those prices are insane... I wonder if it's due to the insurance f-up of the whole health system in the USA (i.e. ballooning the prices because "insurance will pay"))

Uhm... Most of my life I went to a doctor that simply checkeed my teeth "physically". Then a couple of years back she send me to get x-ray to her's son place "just in case". And then she retired and I moved to him. And while he does x-ray more often it's mostly as a fallback when he checks my mouth and has some doubt/x-ray was done more than 2 years ago.. but again - it's not very expensive - like $25 :D

Uhm... was it a known issue when you released it or you didn't even try it on Firefox before release? :(

I still use FF, for now anyway, so I’m not trying to be a dick here, but we’re talking less than 4% market share, so it’s hard to fault a small team for prioritizing the 82% they get with Chrome+Safari

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:StatCounter-browser-ww-mo...

I quite often wonder about those stats... I mean - most of Firefox users are quire conscious about privacy/tracking so most likely they have it blocked which... would "disappear" them from the stats? Chrome/Safari users mostly don't give a darn (and blocking is getting more difficult) so they would usually balloon the stats? Not to mention sites usually working just fine in Firefox but doing dumb detection hence users often hiding UserAgent?

Yes Firefox user here. I hide my useragent too because of stupid sites like Microsoft 365 that disable a lot of functionality for Firefox but everything works totally fine if they think I'm using edge. The same skulduggery that Google used on Gmail to make chrome big.

Cool.

> Kotlin became the language of Android, not because it was new, but because multiple company's studied it and devs were more productive in the language after a relatively short on ramping period, many cases a weekend to get familiar and less than a month to be more productive.

[citation_needed]

> Java was stagnating on Android as well and Kotlin was able to introduce a lot of modern features

Java was stagnating on Android because Google was (and is) lagging with implementing newer features. Android 12 only got support for Java 11 ffs...

Interestingly enough with Project Mainline it will be possible to support newer Java versions in Android…

No, but it has VirtualThreads and while they are not the same it gives you similar performance benefits without having to deal with "async-y"/callback stuff

> Wouldn’t folks feel better making smart, reasonable, and incremental improvements? Consider cases like introducing Kotlin to gradually level-up a Java shop.

I'm mostly a Java guy (with occasional dabbing in Python/Rust or some web-y stuff) and recently had to quickly jump into Kotlin codebase and I find it utterly clusterfuck-y... I may felt awesome in Java8 days ages ago but nowadays with nice, steady Java development I don't see much need or appeal of using Kotlin...

> There are several tutorials on the Internet on how to avoid this, for example, this one on How-To Geek, which suggest disabling an option in the Google account. However, this doesn't work, since mine is not enabled and never was:

I don't have google account (or better yet - I'm not logged in to it in any reasonable manner) yet the promp shows constantly :|

f* google

That suggestion for a fix never made sense because you get it on every device and browser. How would that work if you aren’t signed into Google in the first place?

I have a different Firefox profile to sign into Google with. For normal, everday browsing, I use another profile where I never sign in.