I appreciate the philosophy recommendation especially, thanks!

Thanks, didn’t know about this instance. I’ll probably spend time exploring PeerTube some more, but I know it’s still pretty sparse, and I figured there are tons of podcasts that I could listen to in the mean time.

Good call. This reminded me of the Australian TV channel SBS. Looks like they have a decent selection of podcasts: https://www.sbs.com.au/audio/podcasts

Great recommendations! Cheers!

I’m glad options exist to give YouTube less money, but I guess I’m more interested in reducing their dominance, both at large on the Internet, and also in my life. People go to YouTube because it’s where their favourite creators are, so if we signal to creators that we’re moving away, creators will choose to publish elsewhere too. Of course, I’m under no illusion that this will happen quickly, but hey we’re on the Fediverse, so we already know that :)

Nice. I’m trying out Miniflux on my own CapRover server for now.

I’ve heavily relied on YouTube for my media for years, so I definitely get the reluctance to ditch it, but the human rights censorship has forced me to rip the band-aid. I’ll have to deal with Gmail at some point.

Excellent read. Thanks for the link.

" Future Computers Will Be Radically Different (Analog Computing)" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVsUOuSjvcg

I’d recommend looking at Hedy. It was created to teach kids programming, with a smooth ramp from simple English-like statements all they way to full python, with formal syntax introduced very gradually.
https://hedy.org/
As a bonus, it also allows non-English speakers to use keywords in their native language.

Yeah, I’d say that’s true. I think the alternatives may be just as good, but React was the first mover in its category, gained and maintained popularity for years, is battle-tested, and the improvements they’ve made over the years has kept it fresh.

My understanding is that one of the benefits of Svelte, for example, is that it eliminates the virtual DOM abstraction that React uses, so if you cared enough to shave milliseconds off your frontend rendering time for a complex site, then you may want to look into Svelte, but the reality is that React is already very good.

In reality, your choice of framework is usually already dictated by whatever project you’re contributing to, and for most fairly modern projects that ends up being React, and sometimes Vue or Angular. Beyond that, I personally just try these new libraries occasionally, build a toy project to see if they solve some pain point that I have, and determine if that is good enough for me to switch or recommend.

Devographics has been running these popular “State of X” surveys (State of JS, State of CSS, etc) that have been useful for tracking trends in frontend framework usage:
https://www.devographics.com/
https://stateofjs.com/en-US
https://stateofcss.com/en-US
https://stateofhtml.com/en-US
https://stateofreact.com/en-US

The StackOverflow survey is also somewhat useful:
https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2025

There was a movie made recently that I recommend. “Out Standing” by Mélanie Charbonneau about Sandra Perron, Canada’s first female infantry officer. The movie is based on Perron’s memoir, and depicts the horrible abuse she endured during the time she served from 1991 to 1996.

Looks like they didn’t sponsor Omarchy, but they did promote it on their twitter a couple of times: https://x.com/FrameworkPuter/status/1960029405067313546

Omarchy uses Hyprland, so I guess they started by promoting Omarchy and maybe DHH asked them to sponsor Hyprland

If you have the time to watch the episode with a transgender person, I’d be interested to hear how you felt about that.

I agree the fascists need to be defeated. I think the value in this project is that it would allow people on the other side to see that we’re all on the same team when it comes to the fight against fascism.

I think it’s good that people are moving away from Google and American companies, and I will probably do the same some time soon. However, I don’t think that actually helps with this issue, since thousands of normies will continue to be manipulated by these ads.

I’d recommend CBC Gem and Nebula as a YouTube alternatives, but I’m going to have a hard time getting off YouTube too. I’ll probably switch to reading books and watching Canadian-made movies.

Yeah, I’ve reported these ads to them before. I doubt they’re actually investigating it further than removing an individual ad, if that. A few savvy people moving away from Google devices won’t really put a stop to it either.

Emily has also started posting videos on her channel after coming out as trans: https://www.youtube.com/@emily-young