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I'm curious if anyone has any experience selling source code. Not so much freelancing, but just selling code you've already written.

I'm living in medium to high cost of living area in the USA. I'm sick of the full-time employment - layoff - job hunt - full-time employment cycle. I don't see the employer / employee relationship getting any better.

Looking for other ideas.

I was pretty excited to add storybook to my project, but after setting up my basic components like buttons and moving on to higher level components that render slices of state using selectors .... I have regrets.

Is it me or is it really hard to 'storybook-i-fy' react components using selectors? I found this tutorial on the Storybook site and it looks like the preferred pattern is to duplicate your store in your storybook file? That can't be right, can it?

Someone talk me out of taking Storybook out back and uninstalling it from my repo.

This opinion is based on reading people's thoughts on the internet and remembering what I was taught in my own time in school (where they essentially stumbled into teaching that humans were some kind of 'peak' of the evolutionary process)

I think people have waaaaayyyy too much faith in human intelligence and it's leading to the destruction of the world.

1- People keep thinking a scientist or a 'rich entrepreneur' is going to come up with some magic bullet to save the world, if we taught more about how other animals have tools, language, larger and older and more complex brain structures than us - People might realize it's similar to believing that dolphin will arise from the sea with some idea to stop climate change

2- we keep participating in these systems that have been created under the assumption that we are 'making progress'. I would argue that the minority of human invention represents real progress.

3- It leads to undervaluing the earth and taking it for granted. We worship ourselves as gods (literally). Almost everything you have wasn't invented by humans. It was the result of billions of years of selective design. Yet we teach as if things we harvest from nature were 'invented' by humans. In reality, we often have no way to produce or even of conceive of these things without a natural example.

Thanks for reading

Anyone else noticing their profile always shows their most recent posts/comments etc as if it's right before the server downtime?

Reloading the page seems to show my new content, but I have to do that each time.

Apologies if its just me. I think it might be but thought I'd ask the community before going off on a troubleshooting spree

I've seen a lot of discussion about Threads around the fediverse and I believe our main instance community has had a few large discussions about it (here's a recent one).

I didn't see an Agora discussion post, so I'm making one.

Can we all discuss our opinions on whether we want this instance to remain federated with Threads or not and share our reasons? I'd appreciate it!

I'm looking for some recommendations for things to listen to or casually watch to stay 'in the loop' on the standout games of the year, hear discussion of good games in general, feed my video game fan soul but not just about the newest latest thing.

I figured this group might know of good spots to look.

What are your favorites?

Hey all, another moderation topic here 🙀

We've all had a lot of discussion about it. Rather than posting my opinion on it, I wanted to share this talk from usenet about what they've learned from it.

They talk about the fediverse at the end!

I also want to share these 2 stories:

A study on how usenet learned to deal with spam: https://www.techdirt.com/2020/09/18/content-moderation-case-study-usenet-has-to-figure-out-how-to-deal-with-spam-april-1994/

One of the ways usenet deals with child porn: https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/clean-news-proposed-as-usenet-censor/

If you watch the video and find any interesting bits, let's discuss them!

I wish to roam about the fediverse and see the sights.

Hello all. I'm mostly a web dev but I occasionally need some images so I use midjourney.

I have the most basic account, which seems to lock up sometimes. Yesterday it suddenly stopped accepting prompts, but today it was working again.

Anyone experience something similar know the mechanic behind it? I couldn't really understand fast hours at all but I couldn't find much explanation of it either. Do they run out each day?

My eye sight is getting worse everyday people.

This is mostly a light hearted post to give the community something low stakes to discuss and decide on.

Maybe there won't be any interest, or maybe we have a lot of ideas for icons and even banners?