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bbutterworth | 5 years ago | on: Gatsby raises $28M Series B led by Index Ventures

I initially got very frustrated with Gatsby. Most new web frameworks makes things easier and faster. Gatsby is not about making a website easier to make. Its about making really fast websites easier to make. Its complicated: you need to use GraphQL to load an image, and you need to choose the right query based on what component you're using.

Eventually, I embraced the complexity, and the plugin system really helps.

Oh, but I still hate the 'theme' feature. I prefer the old 'starter' way.

bbutterworth | 5 years ago | on: Twitter Will Allow Employees to Work at Home Forever

for me slack is an async function. its on silent, the entire time. And my time slices are large (2±1 hours)

bbutterworth | 5 years ago | on: React Native for Windows and Mac

Its not so bad. He is referring to RN updates, e.g. from 0.61.5 to 0.62

Its annoying, but I succeeded in upgrading in one project in about 1 hour. Just basically comparing the example code diff on github.

perhaps older version had more changes and weren't documented as well.

irrelevant comment: I hate Expo as it fails to be a helpful abstraction on top RN.

bbutterworth | 5 years ago | on: De-Googling: My Progress

Oops, by 'target', I meant on the receiving end of exploitation (governments/ politics/ free speech). You might consider targeted adverts exploitation, but I didn't include that in the use of 'target', because I think people prefer targeted adverts and can just turn them off anyway.

bbutterworth | 5 years ago | on: De-Googling: My Progress

If everyone did this, google wouldn't exist, a lot of the open source google software wouldn't exist. Isn't the main point of de-googling, is that everyone does it. Because you can be influenced indirectly even if you do de-google, and that the benefits of de-googling should emerge with popularity. I'm sure some people are de-googling because of personal privacy, but most people aren't targets so this doesn't matter. One of the benefits I can see is that it reduces the quality to the users, and the value to the large companies. That way, data/ power is not consolidated, and we have privacy by segregation.

In summary, I don't see the purpose of de-googling as an individual. And if de-google collectively, we're all worse off. And yet I de-googled last year.

PS: I use Brave, Android, flutter & duck.com, which only exists to its quality today because of Google.

bbutterworth | 5 years ago | on: Stripe raises $600M at nearly $36B valuation

I was caught off by this sleight of hand; I agree that it is scummy.