It wasn’t a surprise to us. It’s how Canadians already feel. Threaten our sovereignty and that’s what happens.

…yes? This is literally something the US administration has openly discussed.

I'm hoping it was sarcasm but these days you never know.

I think it’s clear we do know. It’s not.

That is the official stance of the US president, yes.

From a Trump speech

"Canada called me a couple of weeks ago. They want to be part of it. To which I said, well, why don't you just join our country? Become 51, become the 51st state and you get it for free,"

Numerous other examples if you are honestly asking for evidence.

Or maybe it was Trump saying multiple times that he wanted to make Canada a state?!

Betteridge's Law of Headlines states that any headline ending in a question mark can be answered with "no".

I'm a huge fan of those kinds of "laws"¹. My favorite one is Conway's law². Having said that Betteridge's Law never really convinced me. As far as my gut is concerned it's just always true for one in two cases.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_eponymous_laws

2: "[O]rganizations which design systems (in the broad sense used here) are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations."

Betteridge’s law needs allowances for cases where the issue at hand is opinion or speculation. In this case, the non-clickbait headline would be “Germany’s Gold isn’t Safe in New York”, but the facts aren’t there to go to press with that.

I wonder how many users would prefer to have full page reloads (aka traditional server-side rendering) when navigating instead of all the insane http requests and ads we have today?

See also: HTMX and possibly even jQuery

So you think CodeSpeak by the creator of Kotlin will fail, pure and simple? https://codespeak.dev

Yes.

Given that OpenClaw isn’t a lot of code, Apple could still build their own. After all, a hyper-personal AI Assistant is what they announced as “Apple Intelligence” two WWDCs ago. Or the could buy OpenClaw, hand it to the Shortcuts team, throw in their remaining AI devs, and Bob’s your uncle. They aren’t first to OpenClaw, but maybe they can still be the best. I know I’d like to be sure it can’t erase my entire disk just because i sneeze when I’m telling it what to do.

I don't think about anyone at the cafe, unless I start chatting with someone. I just take a physical book with me, crack it open, and read as I sip my coffee. I keep a notepad nearby in case I have good ideas while reading. I may get a refill. When I've read enough, I leave. It's 100% relaxing for me.

Fantastic job!

I don't think anyone is surprised by this.

Yes, but many of them care about different twenty-percentses, so you probably still need the whole thing to keep the number of users you currently have.

BUT if you can find a feature that few people use, but which requires a lot of maintenance and/or ongoing development time, get rid of that bit and enjoy a higher ROI.

>> it allows us to write an HTML-first back-end in such a way that it feels like writing an SPA.

I think you’ll find that most people who love HTMX don’t ever want something that feels like writing an SPA.

Yes. With HTMX, one can put a page definition and its endpoints in one file. It has high cohesion.

There's no integration with routers, state stores, or rpc handlers. There are no DTOs shared between the frontend and backend. It has low coupling.

High cohesion and low coupling bring benefits in engineering productivity.