I'm also very biased towards Cloudflare (I work there), but I have to say it did make launching this really easy. Workers + Hono for the APIs, R2 for the images, D1 for database with the option to migrate to Hyperdrive if you outgrow it.
Browsers can take standards position on CommonMark extensions and decide on a baseline that goes into the W3C spec? It will just converge on the lowest common denominator and that’s good enough for the vast majority of content reading usecases.
> I’ve been asking for browser-native markdown support for years now. A clean web is not that far, if browsers support more than just HTML.
You can always do the markdown -> DOM conversion on the client. Sure, there's a bit of latency there, but it means easier deployment (no build step involving pandoc or similar).
Browser-native markdown support would be better though; you'd get ability to do proper contenteditable divs with bold, italic, etc done via markdown
To get broad support from the server side, you’ll need to showcase high browser support. We need Wordpress and Wikipedia and Ghost to support this, and that won’t happen without native browser support.
> We need Wordpress and Wikipedia and Ghost to support this, and that won’t happen without native browser support.
It can. Unlikely but possible. A good first step would be to have a well-written web component to be used like this: `<markdown>...</markdown>`, with no support at all for a build-step. The .js file implementing this should be included directly in the `<head>`.
If that gets traction (unlikely, but possible) then the standards would sooner or later introduce a tag native to the browser that does the same thing.
Happy to answer any questions, super excited to be part of the team and help make Cloudflare's developer experience better. Not just bells-and-whistles ;)
That was a rough read, not really sure I understood the authors point. It was kind of all over the place, bad because AI, bad because not really open-source, bad because doge...
Only thing I really left with was the author doesn't like the word gum. Seems like a hit piece on Sahil? Pretty sure the open-source part of Gumroad has been in the works for a while.
Right. Somewhat burred the lede. My take was that the value that services like Gumroad can bring is precisely the value-add they provide over what a create could do themselves. So if the CEO has chosen to essentially automate the entire business by replacing staff with AI, then what value-add is left exactly?
Better then to watch out for middlemen that "extract value rather than add it" and empower creators to host things themselves. Thought that was a nice observation.
Ironically, I always thought that was somewhat the point of Gumroad (short of self-hosting). Are they on to enshittification Stage II?
Hi I'm one of the founders of Outerbase, just want to clarify a few things, seems like you might have some wrong information on Outerbase.
Big fan of Mathesar by the way!
1. We have a incredibly powerful CRUD editor on our table, in fact you can drag and drop and select multiple columns & rows, I haven't seen many other DB editors support this.
2. We allow you to pick foreign key constraints from a dropdown as well.
Maybe the US will break up, and then some parts of the US will join Canada.
As big as the political problems the US has been having in recent years are, I don't think that's likely to happen in the short-to-medium term. But, if these problems just keep on getting worse, then eventually it may become a very real possibility.
Peter Zeihan makes the case in one of his books for why Alberta should leave Canada and join the US. I’m not Canadian or American and have no dog in the fight, but it’s interesting reading.
While Alberta is often called “the Texas of Canada” there is not a single Albert a that would give up their healthcare to join the US. In many meaningful ways their standard of living would plummet overnight - healthcare, education, safety, violent crime, life expectancy, etc.
I think it's reasonable to presume that any territory added to a country will become the average of that country over time.
So the better question is actually why is the average American such a violent criminal compared to the average Canadian? Answer that and you will have answered your question.
Likely lack of healthcare (desperation), lack of affordable education, debt, need to fill for-profit prisons, corporate lobbying to make regular people's lives worse, etc. etc.
> Violent crime in the US is not evenly distributed.
Neither is it in Canada.
If you want to cherry pick the "best" of the US and leave out the worst from any comparisons, you'd have to do that for whatever country you're comparing it to.
> what would send all the criminality to that province?
Nothing would "send" criminality there, over time any place joining the USA would become the USA, and by definition it would become the average of the USA (because it will be a part of the USA)
A lot of people like to think a place will become the USA in all the perceived "good" ways like higher potential salaries, lower income taxes, more freedom, etc., but they fail to realize a place will also become the USA in all the ways that make the USA so vastly different from every other developed nation (healthcare, education, violence, crime, etc.)
Of course it does! Those higher crime areas are using up limited time and money that could be better put to use making your life better, but instead it's being used to deal with all that crime and criminals.
Interestingly enough while the Canadian constitution doesn’t flat out permits this, it does allow the province to have a binding referendum and should a vote come to pass by it’s people, it forces the federal government to seriously consider it, thus a faithful negotiating can take place which could lead to the province becoming a sovereign nation.
I've always joked about joining Europe because I feel we have more in common with them then our neighbour to the South, but recent comments from said neighbour's upcoming Führer have made the jokes just a tad more serious.
> “We switched from Carta to Diligent to try to reduce cost and it was a disaster. Switched back to Carta and will never leave again. It’s a 100x better product and keeps getting better,” posted Bill Smith, founder of Landing.
The 2 main issues that are discussed here actually don't seem like a big deal to me in the grand scheme of things:
1. While I think having to schedule a meeting to cancel is annoying, I think the issue in the article about not being able to have a meeting until after the renewal date seems like a pretty obvious bug to me in the sense that someone's calendar was hosed which is why cancellation meetings weren't available for so long. An f up to be sure, but this feels to me very like an unintended event that then gets amplified on Twitter/social media because the optics are so bad.
2. The cap data data issue was bad, but by all accounts Carta did an appropriate mea culpa, and in any case have gotten completely out of the "secondary market" market which was so problematic to begin with.
I don't mean to make this sound like I'm "letting them off the hook", but I'm just emphasizing that, in the business world, business leaders tend to look at things from much more of a direct cost/benefit analysis, and the pain points above just really aren't that big of a deal to most business leaders. Note that's considerably different compared to consumer products where people are much more likely to "rage quit".
And the fact is, everyone I know says Carta is excellent at their core functionality. As an employee with ISOs from multiple different companies that used Carta, I'd say that at least from the perspective of an employee equity holder that their product is very good.
Cap table data is one of those things that turns grown men into a bunch of high school gossipers. It is even more juicy information than salary data because most people know around how much money each position is paid in terms of salary. Stock ownership is a completely different story. Stock can be given to different employees at orders of magnitude differences depending on the position or stage that the employee joined at. I knew an employee who found out about another employee's stock grant amount. Once he found out, he refused to work hard at all because the other employee was "not as intelligent" or as senior as he was, yet he was granted 5x the stock because he joined earlier. It is no surprise that even outsiders of the company illegally share the data like high school gossipers.
Agreed. We deliberately avoided them and just used an old fashioned spreadsheet plus lawyers and it worked perfectly fine and wasn’t that expensive. Maybe if you’re huge but at 120 employees this still worked perfectly fine for us. I got really turned off when they started hinting they would use customer data to offer services on top. Sorry but I have no interest in sharing incredibly sensitive data like that to help possible competitors.
It leaked to other people in the company, who were looking to use that information for a secondary market product that Carta had. Since they know everyone who owns stock in company X, they know exactly who to approach about selling stock in company X on their brand-new privately held company marketplace (without the companies permission). https://techcrunch.com/2024/01/07/carta-the-cap-table-manage... for more. After this was discovered and widely reported they sold their private secondary market to another company, because it was impossible to regain trust.
