Location: Europe

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Web stuff

Resume/CV: https://vladimirslepnev.me

Email: vladimir.slepnev@gmail.com

If you have some fun, non-corporate-feeling stuff to do, drop me a line.

I think this depends on the subject. Something like math or music is "learned, not taught": you spend a lot of time practicing by yourself, sometimes asking a teacher when you get stuck. But something like CPR or assembling a drum kit is "taught, not learned": the teacher guides you through the motions and you're done.

No one's stopping you from that, as long as your preferences coincide with go fmt ;-)

In my (small) experience, SSE is a bit finicky: 1) Firefox kills a webpage's SSE connection when you close and open the laptop lid, making you write code to reconnect, unlike other browsers; 2) there's no way to see the HTTP status code if something went wrong; 3) proxies can still mess things up sometimes: https://dev.to/miketalbot/server-sent-events-are-still-not-p...

If you have a constant stream of data, SSE does make sense. But if your goal is to have events arriving infrequently or a irregular times, then good old long polling will work in strictly more cases, at the cost of maybe 2x more resources.

Wild graphic. US spending on one flying killing machine (the F-35) is comparable to total spending on the Marshall plan to reconstruct Europe after WWII, or the interstate highway system, or all datacenters combined. Priorities!

I don't think that's right - the scale is logarithmic. The Marshall Plan is 20 times as expensive

And this is why I hate log scale graphs. Even in the cases where it does have a useful effect, 90%+ of people are still going to interpret it in a linear way and therefore make it massively misleading.

It’s hazardous to blend fixed and variable costs.

This seems like nonsense at any angle? Like, if the agent hype comes true, then agents will be just as good at using any website as humans are, and there's no need to make any changes to your site. And if the hype doesn't come true, then who cares if your site is agent ready.

Unless of course you want to expose some functionality only to AIs, not humans. Then sure. But why would you want to do that?

Yeah, plus it's a bit... single minded. A static single page site is _quite_ "agent ready". Scores 0 here. It's not like it'll need an MCP or whatever.

It's probably for "agents" that want to make websites for other agents. This has nothing to do with us humanoids.

To prompt inject them into giving you money. Click this button 10,000 times to prove you're really an AI.

There was an old Soviet cartoon about a child who found a box containing two magical servants and immediately asked them for ice cream and sweets. Well, since the servants "do everything for you", the first servant fetched the sweets for him, and the second one ate them for him. I've often thought about this cartoon since the AI thing started.

I'm working on https://suggestionboard.io, a live polling/feedback/Q&A webapp that doesn't require an account. Just launched the first version, now looking at the market and making small improvements.

Wow! I'm not in the target audience, but this is exactly what I love to see :-) Thanks for doing this!

:)

I'm working on https://suggestionboard.io, a simple live polling and Q&A webapp that doesn't require an account. Just launched the first version and trying to figure out if there's a market.

The hardest question to answer honestly. Have you tried talking to people who run live events or team standups? That feels like your most obvious early use case — they already have the pain and no account requirement is a genuine advantage there. Good luck with it.

Thanks for your comment, just saw it. Yes, what you're saying is clearly the right next step, but contacting people out of the blue is so scary. I guess I should force myself to.

Nice.

Feedback board or feature board are the terms, and there's a plethora of SaaS options, from tiny to large.

I recently searched for one, but they were either over budget, required extra user accounts, weren't GDPR compliant, or too complex. In the end, I coded a custom solution for my site.

Yours would have fit if I had found it earlier.

This is good to hear. If I may ask, what was your use case?

Wanted to test another way to capture feedback for a bunch of apps and stuff on the same site. Registered users can add new posts to the feedback board, and all can comment and vote on them. And I can set a status on a post, so they see if something was implemented; simple done state.

I liked nolt.io from the design and stuff. But it does too much, and the monthly price didn't fit for a simple test. The others in that league were the same. The indehacker's are mostly not GDPR-compliant and have this doom-laden smell of neglect.