(I work on Firebase App Hosting, which also supports Next.js directly rather than OpenNext)
I want to +1 that Vercel has been really improving their portability. We still have Next.js specific code in Firebase, and having different architectures can sometimes make us have to figure out the best mapping of their features, but Vercel has made a noted effort to improve encapsulation of Vercel-specific features and portability has improved. I’m honestly surprised that OpenNext, which is not a new project, seems to have gained a lot of attention in the immediate past.
I'm still of the opinion that smartphones should have page-up/page-down buttons, so that you can scroll easily with minimal finger movements while holding the phone one-handed.
I teach AED use and both my curriculum and trainer AEDs have one pad on the right chest and one on the left side. Is this the “two on the chest” method? If so, why have organizations not updated their curriculum and tooling?
Should I assume that irrespective of this finding, pads should be placed where the AED indicates so that rhythm detection works correctly?
A lot of places have updated their curriculum or clinical guidance documents. Medicine is a slow moving beast, however, so change takes forever. A lot of AHA recommendations are woefully outdated. But everyone keeps doing the same thing because they are scared to not do what AHA recommends. I have 15 years as a medic, with 5 being as a training officer for a large capital city metro EMS system. Our clinical guidelines were probably updated 2017-18 with new placement guidance to start placing pads anterior-posterior. At first it was to facilitate automated CPR devices (Lucas) and CPR feedback puck placement. We noticed better resuscitation results, even when considering the CPR devices. Our medical director is extremely progressive and some short research later and consulting with Zoll, we moved to anterior posterior.
If you think of the traveling electrical power as a vector (pointing arrow), consider Anterior-Anterior vs Anterior-Posterior and draw a vector (arrow) between the pads. Which placement directs most of the power to the tissue of the heart? Anterior-Posterior does as the arrow goes directly through the ventricles, the area responsible for the VF/VT rhythm generation.
Once I learned how monitors, specifically Zoll, do rhythm analysis, and especially Zoll's Shock Conversion Estimator, I moved on and went back to school for engineering to help design products like these. It is all really cool stuff.
Traditionally, you would sign with the government’s public key so that only they can decrypt it. But ballots are so low entropy that I’d be worried about brute forcing it (maybe some significant nonces can be added?) a solution where you use the block chain signed with certificates held in a central database is just… another case of people pushing blockchain without understanding it
Not a fan of YAML at all myself, but it's interesting that you like 'Yaml-like object structuring' yet then loathe 'Signifiant whitespace'? I mean that's basically YAML.
Do you want antitrust investigations? Because this is how you get antitrust investigations.
Wordpress is nearly half of the Internet. There’s a pretty compelling argument that Matt is using his market power to prevent competition in violation of the Sherman act.
I mentioned this deeper in the comment chain, but WordPress the OSS software is used by a lot of people. But there are many WordPress hosting companies, so no single legal entity would come anywhere close to a monopoly.
By that logic, Linux has a monopoly on cloud web servers or something? But there’s no one company making that happen.
Thought experiment: Linus is hired by Canonical, adds Ubuntu's kernel live-patching to the kernel itself and removes kexec from the public API surface. Or we pretend it never existed in the first place, and requests and patches to add it are ignored (quite common in commercial open source).
I know there's an extra layer in the WordPress situation, because Matt personally owns wordpress.org, but he very evidently uses that position to further the goals of Automattic.
People have asked for a way to host all the wordpress.org online services themselves. There isn't even a way to configure a different endpoint. I'm sure that'll change after today, in WordPress itself, or in a fork.
Nearly half isn't enough to trigger antitrust. Especially because that nearly half is only mom and pop shops and not the ones doing the real big business. So I wouldn't be too worried about that.
Mom and pop are the consumers/victims here. And if 46% of all websites are WordPress, it’s probably likely that it has a monopoly on sites in its domain (e.g. blogging, commerce)
I don’t see how that’s even remotely possible. There are so many WP competitors it’s not even funny. Being OSS, it’s very easy to export your data from WordPress. So you could easily move from one of Matt’s hosting companies to somewhere else (or self host!) if that was important.
For competitors, on the small scale side, you have Wix/Squarespaxe/Weebly. Or just Shopify for e-commerce. For enterprise, Adobe experience manager is huge. Loads of places just write their own website and have their own CMS solution.
So no, it doesn’t even come close to having a monopoly on anything. And even if WordPress did, no individual company does. There are a huge number of different companies competing in the WordPress hosting space. Automattic doesn’t even host that much (https://w3techs.com/technologies/details/ho-automattic)
But nobody cares about blogging. At least not of the population block that not about to die off. Stories/Reels/meh are where attention is at now. Commerce? If it's not Amazon, it's nothing. After that for mom&pop shops would be Shopify/Etsy/otherNotSmallSites. Maybe FB Marketplace, Insta/TikTok type sales too. I honestly would be surprised if mom&pops are getting much from their own websites in today's world.
It's not just blogging. For example, the Whitehouse uses WordPress for its site. Nasa uses it on some of their sites as does the National Archives. On the commercial side you have The New Yorker, BBC America, Sony, Disney, Facebook and Bloomberg all using it in some capacity. There are many more of course, but that should give you an idea.
So, while you're right - online publishing doesn't have popular mindshare - it is a massive part of the online economy.
I'm not saying that qualifies WP for anti-trust investigation, but your underlying premise that WordPress is irrelevant is not congruent with reality.
I’ve worked on a good number of WordPress sites for several Very Big Companies and not one of them was a blog in any sense.
From an internal tablet tool for sales reps, to the entire help system for an MS product that got translated into iirc about 100 languages, to a shareable library of B2B solutions, I’ve not once worked on a WP project that was a blog.
It probably depends on which part of the Sherman act we are talking about.
Section 2, which covers "Every person who shall monopolize, or attempt to monopolize, or combine or conspire with any other person or persons, to monopolize any part of the trade or commerce [...]" has been found by courts, I believe, to require 50% market share (or sometimes more) to apply.
But section 1, which applies to "Every contract, combination in the form of trust or otherwise, or conspiracy, in restraint of trade or commerce [...]", does not as far as I've been able to tell have any market size threshold.
I actually wonder if “tip the development team” makes sense (assuming tipping is gratuity and not because an employer pays below-living wages). Weirdly it might even lead to quality improvement because low tip areas could be detected and debugged.
Wonder if the size of this breach will be used as evidence of consumer harm by their monopoly. If there were more competition in the market, there wouldn’t be one single treasure trove so enticing.
Also, I dont think the case against them will get very far. The only people who benefit from them not existing is criminals. If your under thee illusion that the fees TM charges go to anyone other than the artists I dont know what to tell you.
The grift isnt the price, the grift is who you blame for it.
(Edit: I dont say this lightly, I used to work in the industry, its greedy fucks all the way down).
Vercel has great products (both their hosting product and Next.js). If we look back far enough, some of Next.js’s most killer features (e.j. ISR) had tight coupling with their hosting platform. In the last year, Vercel has really upped their game. The Vercel-specific features are becoming encapsulated with replaceable delegates and Vercel has started differentiating with additional services. This is great! Vercel is innovating with new infrastructure (e.g. KV) while also increasing the portability of Next.js applications. We (Firebase) are going to use these more portable APIs to offer similar experiences and Google, Vercel, and others will differentiate on their IaaS ecosystem. This benefits developers immensely because it eliminates lock-in fears because Next.js will have proof of portability in market and you no longer have to couple your infrastructure and framework decision making. It’s a bright future for web developers in general!
I want to +1 that Vercel has been really improving their portability. We still have Next.js specific code in Firebase, and having different architectures can sometimes make us have to figure out the best mapping of their features, but Vercel has made a noted effort to improve encapsulation of Vercel-specific features and portability has improved. I’m honestly surprised that OpenNext, which is not a new project, seems to have gained a lot of attention in the immediate past.