The $15 wage in my part of the US is equivalent to paying $35 in silicon valley or new york. I just want to add that my Craigslist ad has attracted offers at that rate, so the price is fair. (Of course I'm talking about the lowest-tier haircut one could get.)
But the interesting phenomenon is how to more directly (and covertly!) target entry-level hairstylists specifically given the hurdles I listed above.
I'm thinking of going to the back of the Supercuts nearby and leaving flyers on cars.
hypermedia isn't ideal for everything[1], but it is an interesting & useful technology and libraries like htmx make it much more relevant for modern development
we have a free book on practical hypermedia (a review of concepts, old web 1.0 style apps, modernized htmx-based apps, and mobile hypermedia based on hyperview[2]) available here:
https://hypermedia.systems
[1] - https://htmx.org/essays/when-to-use-hypermedia/
[2] - https://hyperview.org/
These redesigns would be a lot more difficult if we had to edit HTML on the client and the HTML that a server returns.
Also, HTMX is best styled with semantic classes. Which is a problem for companies using Tailwind and utility classes in their HTML. With class-heavy HTML it's nearly impossible to redesign in two different places. And performance suffers and returning larger chunks of HTML.
Despite all that, I want HTMX to be the standard way companies develop for the web. But these 2 problems need to be addressed first, I feel, before companies (like mine) take the leap.