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Tom MacWright
i flipped the switch and made the placemark codebase open source today: https://macwright.com/2024/01/19/placemark-oss it's been cleaned up a bit, and some of the external dependencies are now optional, but it'd benefit massively if folks start improving it and tinkering with the internals. open sourcing big applications like this is a big roll of the dice: i think it's valuable in part because it's a complete, production application, but it is also a lot ot absorb all at once. time will tell!
Tom MacWright
Chrome Devtools protip: Emulate a focused page https://macwright.com/2024/01/10/emulate-a-focused-page.html
Tom MacWright
inside me are two wolves, one of them thinks that the ai hype cycle is a cult of optimism inherited from the crypto hype cycle and all of the productivity gains will go to existing market leaders and we will be no closer to a world in which people have more free time to create or even basic services like healthcare, the other wolf says tom, you're kind of depressed
Tom MacWright
there's a third one that thinks that the wolves construct might be a riff on sincerely held beliefs of native americans, which already feels bad in the chance that it is
Ariel Kadouri
@tmcw I went to SF last February and then again in July and in that time a few of the billboards switched from crypto to AI
Seb De Deyne
@tmcw Listening to a podcast while reading this and at the exact same moment the guest said “inside me there are two wolves” and this is the first time I ever heard this expression 😅
Tom MacWright
So, news today is that I'm closing down placemark.io https://macwright.com/2023/11/13/placemark It's okay! It was a hard decision but I made it a while ago and have (mostly) processed the feels.
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Jack Dougherty
@tmcw Thank you for creating another fabulous tool, and while I’m sorry your business plan did not work out, thank you for deciding to release the code as open source.
Ilya Zverev
@tmcw Oh :( I had high hopes for the project, given it's from you. This shows how low the chance of survival is in the mapping world.
Tom MacWright
i think you can explain some of the "software is getting slower and worse" plotline by saying that most modern startups are speedrunning product development and - correctly - judge that speed & reliability are actually low on their users’s list of priorities but that doesn't really explain why, say, google, can't ship performant web apps or slack doesn't switch to tauri or a native renderer or whatever
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Drew Breunig
@tmcw Gotta show it will increase revenue and the project is already sufficiently profitable!
Ian Wagner 🦀 :freebsd: :osm:
@tmcw as someone once said, broke gets fixed, but crappy is forever. It’s trite but I think it’s accurate. There is no incentive in most of these huge orgs to do these. Obviously there are a lot of complicated things that I don’t know behind the scenes but I suspect it mostly boils down to this. Nobody is going to get promoted for switching to Tauri but they might get fired if they try and it takes longer than expected or goes badly, since electron is the devil they all know. 🤷
Tom MacWright
i wish there was a tool like grandperspective, that mac app that shows you where big files are hiding in your system, but for postgres. does this exist?
Tom MacWright
car horns should be as loud inside of the car as they are outside of the car
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Keith Jenkins
@tmcw And they should not be coupled to the door locks -- the whole neighborhood doesn't need to know when you lock the car
Grant Gould
@tmcw If a car alarm sound spuriously for more than five minutes at night, you should be allowed to steal the car. |
@tmcw well written, thank you for sharing it. I feel it will strike a chord in some people who need to hear it.