> We need to build better native UI libraries that just open up a WebGL context and draw shit to that.
This is what Flutter does. It works well, but you do lose some nice things that the browser/DOM provides (accessibility, zooming, text sizing/selection, etc). There’s also a noticeable overhead when the app + renderer is initially downloaded).
It's actually one of the hardest forms of crime for state like Singapore to stop - you can police everyone inside the borders of the country extremely effectively, but there's not much you can do against scammers operating out of mainland China apart from trying to stop people falling for it
Were there many competitors to YouTube though? I remember Vimeo (still around) and Google Video (replaced by YouTube), but not much else.
Between OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Facebook, xai, Microsoft, Mistral, Alibaba, DeepSeek, z.ai, Falcon, and many others, AI feels a lot more competitive.
Filament is a great lightweight cross-platform PBR rendering library. There's a few things missing (real GPU instancing is one), but in terms of shadows/antialiasing/color grading, it's very powerful. The material (shader) language is also very accessible.
I maintain an open-source Dart/Flutter package[0] which is mostly a wrapper around Filament. This makes it considerably easier to have a single UI+codebase that runs across macOS, iOS, Android, Windows, and Web.
I've had similarly good experiences with GLM-4.5 for smaller projects/requests. Unfortunately that did degrade with larger contexts, so I'm still treating it as a good fallback for Sonnet 4, rather than a full-blown replacement.
She didn't touch on how visually captivating the colour scheme is for kids. It's unsettling just how much it draws their attention, it's like a drug. It's also (partly) why I prefer Peppa Pig for my 3 year old, it's much easier to him to naturally disengage after 15-20 minutes.
Peppa pig has little to no value though, whereas many people find Bluey wholesome and touching and sometimes really poignant. To each their own, but at least Bluey tries to encourage creativity and play and fun beyond jumping up and down in muddy puddles. The short episode length can be a natural disengage checkpoint with Bluey too, as long as auto play is turned off.
I know I’m the odd one out, but I really don’t find Bluey that wholesome (with the exception of two episodes - the rain one and the Bingo sleeping/space one, which I do think are fantastic). The others are very frenetic - it feels like a pure hit of sugar in television form. It also often shows a lot of bad behaviour that kids can interpret as funny (the cousin running away with the phone after being told, the old lady buying the scooter).
Peppa might be “empty” but I don’t worry that it’s inadvertently steering him in the wrong direction. The Peppa books are also far, far better than the Bluey books.
I think the pace is because a lot of the episodes revolve around play and games - and any sort of play with children does tend to be a bit frenetic. There’s a good number of episodes that aren’t that, including the two you mentioned, but it would be a bit strange for a show about play and imagination to not be a bit frenetic.
> It also often shows a lot of bad behaviour that kids can interpret as funny (the cousin running away with the phone after being told, the old lady buying the scooter).
There’s bad behavior that is funny, sure, but almost all of those episodes demonstrate the consequences of it even if in a humorous fashion: Muffin is constantly facing consequences for her actions, for example. I think that’s an ok trade off.
I find it's worth taking a look at your TVs colour settings for cartoons for children, lots of OLEDs can come over-saturated out of the box, our living room TV is tuned for more muted colours.
On the other hand, the topics and content of Bluey is in another league to Peppa Pig, portraying family life quite accurately and in an endearing way that even for us adults can hit home.
Generally we've found that Peppa does not, and the way the parents are portrayed and the children's behaviour doesn't provide any value to impressionable young children.
Bluey and Peppa Pig (and all shows, really) weren't meant to be binged; it's the downside to having local media or on-demand - it's terribly easy to put on a Bluey and realize you're still watching Blueys three hours later.
My kid drooled in front of Peppa (until she decides she doesn't like it after all). The engagement was at the level of YouTube Kids movies from "creators" - which means kid is unresponsive, clearly doesn't process what's going on, wants more of it like, an addict.
I had to cut off YouTube kids aggressively and my kid still wanted those idiotic movies even after a few months.
Peppa had similar effect, but my kid resigned on it's own. They show is just dumb. Teaches nothing. Unless you value things like feeding ducks with bread and cake is good, destroying countryside camping spot with heavy equipment and concrete is fine just because you dropped keys in a hole etc..
Peppa games are also really bad - not clear when you can actually engage, what can be done, instructions are unclear or wrong, plus the is no goal at all.
Youtube in the context of children is brainrot. I had to ban it entirely. It's so addicting and has zero intelligent value. The last video was of a hamster running an obstacle course. Engaging, cute, kinda silly.... but just complete rot. No educational value. It's like brain sugar. We crave it but it demolishes brain cells.
I found Gemini CLI to be totally useless too. Last week I tried Claude Code with GLM4.5 (via z.ai API), though, and it was genuinely on par with Sonnet.
Thank you for the recommendation. I've been testing this on an open source project and it's indeed good. Not as good as Sonnet 4, but good enough. And the pricing is very reasonable. Don't know if I'd trust it to work on private code, but for public code it's a great option.
This is what Flutter does. It works well, but you do lose some nice things that the browser/DOM provides (accessibility, zooming, text sizing/selection, etc). There’s also a noticeable overhead when the app + renderer is initially downloaded).
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