Curious, if you were to build a Notion/Coda/etc alternative, what would you do differently?

a discord is not a forum. I don't want to join your product's community; I want to read the solution to my technical problem from two posters who worked it out 4 years ago

That little dance we all do when waiting for the card transaction to be accepted if it's anything but instant

There are going to be huge opportunities now for tech in non-US countries. EVERYONE is looking around right now being like oh, every single computer system at every level of the stack is US made. That's a scary proposition if you're outside the US.

The Welsh told the Saxons this hill was called "pen" (meaning "hill"). The Saxons added their word for hill, "tor," and called it Torpen (hill hill).

Later the Norse added their world for hill. So it became Torpen Haugr (Hill Hill Hill).

Now the English call it Torpenhow Hill (Hill Hill Hill Hill)

Seems to me that we might finally have a chance to rebuild social media - most of the incumbent platforms (FB, Twitter, Instagram, etc.) are failing and alienating large swaths of users.

Feels like there's finally room for new startups to once again rise up and find market fit (i.e. Bluesky)

Built a quick playground for Nunjucks debugging and prototyping, check it out: nikas.praninskas.com/nunjucks-pla...

Nobody tells you how much of your life as a parent becomes making sure play-doh doesn't dry out

oh hey i wrote something for the first time in years: punchlinecopy.com/gift-guide-f...

Seeing more and more facebook pages post AI generated clickbait, just a matter of time before all those start pushing propaganda en masse. Don't even need troll farms anymore when you've got generative AI. Reporting does nothing, predictably.

Next.js 15 depends on a release candidate version of React 19. It's starting to feel like that's a little too bleeding-edge to me. Hot take, app router still feels like the experimental approach vs far simpler pages router