I’m currently 30 years old. A lot of things start happening around this age range: Sex and the city starts being funny, you start to know what mortgages and Minoxidil are, and your friends start having kids — on purpose(!!!). And just like having kids, talking about the decision of having kids also becomes a common thing. Don’t get me wrong, the demographic implosion is just as real among my friend group as anywhere else....
I work in a pretty big Typescript code base on my day job. The one thing I see people struggling the most when learning it is the type system. Typescript types are rather special in that they exist during compile time but not during runtime. I believe it is a better mental model to think of them as type annotations than proper types like the ones you get in a language like Go or Java....
Consider TV weather forecasts – Every day, someone will show up in your television and give you a prediction of what the weather is going to be like in your area over the next couple of days. Everyone knows weather forecasting is never 100% accurate. Sometimes it says it will rain, and it doesn’t. But they’ll mostly get it right so people listen to what the weather forecast says because it is useful....
It’s an everyday thing at this point. Amazon abused its position as a platform to use third party seller data to compete against them. Apple abuses its position as an application platform to compete with Spotify and other streaming services. YouTube abuses its position as a video platform banning content producers without offering any recourse. The list goes on. In a more traditional business, such as a factory, you have a set of suppliers that sell you goods you need, like steel and machinery....
I started this personal blog a bit more than a month ago. It has been a really interesting experiment. Some posts even made it to the front page of hacker news. Google analytics tells me this blog had about 46 thousand page views across all posts! Even with way more views than I was expecting, it’s been really hard to convert these viewers into a more regular following for the blog....