Readit Newsabnercoimbre commented on Being "Just a Developer" Isn't Enough Anymore saasykit.com/blog/being-j... · Posted by u/boothemoo
AI bubble burst will be a great time to pick up work of this kind. LLM prices skyrocket, needs a real dev.
Indeed. The new (and few) AI Plumbers will command the best rates.
abnercoimbre commented on We (As a Society) Peaked in the 90s chris.pagecord.com/we-as-... · Posted by u/stog
Quality of life has a lot to do with how you choose to spend your time.
I know lots of people that have no idea what Reddit is. They’ve never had a Facebook account.
Those aren’t happenstances - they are the result of the choice on what they spend their time doing.
I’m not surprised people who spend most of their time exposed to the rage bait that fills social media think the world is falling apart. Especially if you’re not aware that it’s not an accurate or balanced view of reality.
Something new to grapple with though is that (in the US) we have the most extremely online White House in history. Our highest ranking officials, with their departments, are on social media day in and day out, and make decisions motivated by it.
It's very strange.
See: Firefox, management churn, alienation and discarding of community, etc.
Some of us who donated money and supported Mozilla and Firefox are deeply, deeply disappointed and disgusted.
Principles are meaningless to non-human corporate entities, and I'll never donate to a non-profit, charity, or other institution again for the rest of my life.
A great deal of greed exists within many non-profits. (It's frankly obscene when you do your research.) That's not to say some don't serve the public well, but the legal structure of a non-profit isn't by itself enough to deter corruption.
abnercoimbre commented on Amazon to pay $309M to U.S. shoppers in settlement over returns reuters.com/legal/governm... · Posted by u/TMWNN
Glad to see some personal validation, here. I encountered bizarre clawbacks from Amazon on five different occasions in 2025 from returns - one of them four months after the return and refund. They'd often claim they expected a certain item, but received a different one. After reaching out to their CS department they'd tell me it was a mistake, refund me, tell and not to worry about it - all just to have their returns team charge me yet again for it a few weeks later...
Congrats! Will you be able to apply for compensation in this case?
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98% of everything you follow has RSS. It’s not like a quaint, unlisted Vermont antique shop.
This includes YouTube channels, major newspapers and podcasts!
P.S. Even HN is something you should personally control. It's very useful whenever moderators flag a submission you might've liked.