I like php and boostrap.

Not using a framework was one of the worst decisions that was taken in a former job.

The hobbled N770 with broken BT tethering and a CPU that appears to have been selected primarily to be just a little too underpowered to run a full SIP client. The never-ending uncertainty over the pivot to Meego. The "two bald men fighting over a comb" war between UIQ and Hildon. The cycles of cancellation / un-cancellation / re-cancellation affecting both S80 and S90.

As an outsider, it seemed utterly clear at the time that the Maemo devices should have been the focus... but I realise how difficult a wrench that would have been for those who had sunk so much time and effort into Symbian.

Elop was right about the burning platform, but it was far too late by that stage.

I understand what the author deleted and why.

I would never delete my own archive of notes, because it contains a different kind of information: howtos for things I do infrequently, current state for personal projects I rotate in and out of over years, maintenance logs for my vehicles, identification details for every important account (account numbers, insurance expiry details etc).

When I'm doing something complex, I narrate what I'm doing in my notes. Most of these logs are write only. They can help as a kind of written rubber duck. And about 1 in 100 turn out to be extremely useful when I want to remember how I did something 10 years ago.

I use the same app (of my own design) with a different storage at work, and there I use it to remind myself what I did for performance reviews. Every edit is logged with a timestamp and I have a different tool which puts all the edits into chronological order.

For the author, their system served as a way of dealing with anxiety over self-improvement, it seems. But it turned into an anxiety of its own when the weight of unexplored ambition became manifest. It wasn't really a second brain IMO.

This comment you wrote sounds a lot like an LLM, FYI. Not saying you are

Hey Roblox Engineers on here - a brilliant article, by the way - and I want to chip in here, I'm a senior engineer and understand how tech works all the way down. NAND gates, flip-flops and I/O schedulers, and networks? No problem.

I have two young children, a boy and a girl. They both love playing Roblox, and I play along with them too, and their friends join in as well. Yes, they both always want more Robux, but let's look at this from a different perspective:

They create their own worlds - often amazing, it's not like they can run out of LEGO pieces, their creativity is their only barrier. In COVID lockdown, they could carry on playing with their friends, despite not being physically together. Humans still monitor and care for the "game", yes, some bad actors might get through occasionally, but on the whole, it's a safe and well-controlled, fun place to be. I used the concept of a Roblox Avatar to gently explain to my children, that people online might not be all they pretend to be - after all, in some games, I'm a super weight-lifter with a six-pack, and I have wings too :-O We all laughed. It's already taught both my children some genuine life-lessons - working in a pizza shop and doing deliveries, earning money, deciding how to lay out their dream houses (and Theme Parks!), and so on - plus, the importance of locking the door to keep the "bad guys" out.

All this, whilst having fun. Roblox is a force for good - if you pay the odd time for some credits, then so what, developers and us creatives also have to keep the roof over our heads.

Well, you could think about making more money for retirement. Not saying you need to get crazy about it, though.

I am not sure how the hell we will be able to manage that (retirement) with the lifestyle we got today. Not that I am rich, far from it, but I am not sure I want to ask my kids for help... and that seems more and more the direction we're moving in.

I can't tell if you're joking or not, but I sympathize regardless.

That sounds like it was caught by luck, unless there was some test explicitly with that configuration in the QA process?

> why not make Electron a shared part of the OS instead of so many apps bundling it

You're describing a system webview, which is a thing on Android, Windows, iOS, and macOS.