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markcollin | 2 years ago | on: Remembering things that haven't happened yet

It was a sad, yet beautiful read. Some of my fav passage from the article.

"Researchers Gilbert, Quiodbach and Wilson coined a term called the “end of history illusion,” which describes people’s tendency to look back on the last ten or twenty years of their life and concede that they’ve changed a great deal. Yet when they’re asked to project how much they’ll change in the next decade, they tend to believe they’ll change much less, if at all, as if all their life was leading up to this moment, in which they’ve achieved peak selfhood"

"Until 2020, I thought Jake and I would live in New York forever. New York is so fun! But, realistically, we stayed too long, our goals and priorities changed, and the cost and struggle of the city stopped outweighing the desire for a kid and to be close to family."

markcollin | 2 years ago | on: Humane AI Pin

I liked the demo actually. But it's scary that they would have access to all personal details.

But then Google already has access to all my data - via Gmail and my phone (android)

Humane clearly appears to be a category creator in the making

markcollin | 2 years ago | on: Hoppscotch desktop application

Ive tried Jetbrains Http client in the past; but I felt comfortable with a simple UI like Insomnia

Mostly used Insomnia for a long time, until I came across Bruno. Its been a game changer for me. Requests get saved as plain text files and still provides a great UI to work with

Basically all the benefits of text based files combined with a nice UI.

markcollin | 2 years ago | on: Choose Boring Technology (2018)

- choose the tech stack ur team is most comfortable with - focus on getting PPL to try your product, then revenue, then scale and then microservices - in that order

markcollin | 2 years ago | on: Nue.js: Rethinking Reactivity

Going through the nue the tldr I got is "bring back simple html friendly declarative directives (hello AngularJS)"

Nice to see people trying to push boundaries

Nue might not be a great option for building large scale web apps; it however could be a great way to add reactivity to simple websites. We don't need to have the full fledged webpack monstrosity for every little site.

markcollin | 2 years ago | on: Bruno: Open-Source IDE for Exploring and Testing APIs

happy user of bruno here, love the project and the local only file based approach (no cloud bullshit-have had enough of it)

looks like the app has struck a chord with many folks, seeing a lot of hn posts & discussions in the last week around bruno

markcollin | 2 years ago | on: Was JavaScript made in 10 days?

Yes. However I love the fact that Euch continued to oversee it's lead and development in tc39, and a lot of credit goes to him where js is today

markcollin | 2 years ago | on: Bruno – Opensource, sustainability, privacy, freedom and incentives

that rings true. and devs dont usually pay for dev tools. the only way I see them having any success is if they gain significant market adoption

however I applaud the effort trying to innovate in the saturated field. Almost every alternative on that list except thunder client is vc funded. I still can't wrap my head around postmans 5.6b val lol

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