jaredwhite

I got the best deal of all: canceling my Prime membership. I’m saving tons of money! 🤡

(but seriously, screw Amazon and their monopolistic, anti-labor practices)

I love the character of Quark, but let’s be honest. Guinan is the better bartender, if you’re just a regular Starfleet officer looking to down a pint of syntheholic ale.

I would generally agree with you. Bring blogging back, baby! But the question of discovery is still open. I’m optimistic about the threadiverse over the long haul in this regard, but there’s a lot of work we’ll need to do to get there. Also blogging feels daunting to the less technically-inclined still. I’m not sure the traditional blog platforms out there (Wordpress.com, etc.) are quite up to the task…they typically end up catering to more of the power-user business site use cases.

Hearing Picard simply snarl Q! in that grumpy Patrick Stewart manner is the greatest.

Weird that they’d bother to take the time to use an accent for “Café” but then misspell Coffee! 😅

What I’m suggesting as a pathway out is actually more democracy,”

This sounds like the same nonsense as Elon. All we’ll end up seeing is targeted mobs of Reddit sycophants and randos who don’t actually understand the stakes participating in bogus polls to make it appear like Reddit has a handle on the pulse of the community. Then Reddit can claim to be “fair” and “neutral” and…it’s just absurd.

Only “mildly” infuriating??

I don’t think I’ve ever screamed so loud at my TV before. I was loosing my shit at this moment. I was stunned. What a high. Possibly one of the best memories of fandom I have in my life now.

I disagree. The fundamentals of the web specs are more important than ever, and many projects don’t even need a frontend framework.

Also just throwing this out there: I run a Discord called The Spicy Web that really is about learning and building stuff with the fundamentals, even for old-timers like myself (but all the more for newbies! So much advice out there is about pulling in tons of opinionated tools and dependencies, even when you don’t need them…). At any point if you want to bounce ideas or questions off folks in real-time, check it out!