I used to be a hardcore Cursor user until I spent more time with the alternatives and cursor has gotten rough on my machine lately: spins up the MBP fans in minutes and drains the battery in an hour or two on the go. The harness is great, but eventually someone will build something equally good that is not vibe coded to death.

I think the fact that a guns primary function is harm and murder and AI is a word prediction engine makes a huge difference.

First time seeing this. Really moving story.

I just set up a monthly donation and had one thought: the way to donate monthly feels a bit too hidden right now (did a ctrl+f search to find the footer link).

Much love to all of you!

This is really helpful feedback - our team will get to work on making this easier to find. Thanks for joining in and for all the kindness!

Founders can choose how to get paid, so this mostly feels like optics and support for YCs stablecoin bets. Most startups will just need to dump this into a bank to pay salaries and vendors.

Agreed, and I don't think that's a bad thing.

To start, think that stablecoins are great for money movement, even if fiat is used on both sides. For example, Bridge (now part of Stripe) started with a stablecoin sandwich, where the stablecoin was just the money movement piece and both source and destination were fiat. That was cheaper and faster than the other ways to move money.

The willingness to keep backing his companies, despite his political trajectory, is honestly hard to understand.

People create their opinion from what they read in blog posts like this rather than their own experience. Take the right tool for the job - over.

Going back to the early 2000s with freemarker/twig/mustache is what he means I guess? Nextjs and Gatsby are what they are for very good reasons and backend apis can be written in whatever you please these days... Why would you consider using those dinosaurs again? When that is all you and your team is comfortable with?

This is a very blunt statement and overvalues hstore. Keys AND values in hstore are and can only be text strings.

With arrays and composite type the potential for semi-structured schema was there for decades. The concept just got more mainstream with NoSQL, more easy to maintain and more efficient with indexables type such as JSONB.

Yes hstore is limited but since you can represent numbers and even hstore itself as text, all you really have to do is cast to and from text and then you have a nested structure with almost anything in it...

jsonb is much better obviously but hstore was really nice and kind of under appreciated.

My beef with software patents is bigger than my dislike of the Facebook institution. I think something like a weak patent clause would be nice for FOSS projects but it's not explored by many so far.

Interestingly more people seem blatently annoyed that their employer forbids them to use e.g. React and not about what the license actually means.

Everything is an expression. Including if statements. There is no need of such syntax abominations.

Bingo. Remember when you first first learned the ternary operator syntax? I recall thinking something along the lines of, "Wow, that's cryptic!"

    result = if condition then success else failure

Sure, but other coffee operations like x||=5 are also abominations. Brevity and purity are often at odds and the choices made by a language can be arbitrary.