ADHD is a real neurological condition that people are born with; not something learned via an app. Post links to research please.

All of my kid’s sixth grade friends have smartphones. No exceptions. If I excluded those families my kid wouldn’t be allowed to have friends. Best I can do is take the other kids phones away after a certain number of screen hours at my house.

Limiting screen time is an exceptionally challenging task because of the many loopholes and bugs in parental controls, and my lack of direct control over the chromebooks the schools issue.

Do you really think you can predict your kids future friends correctly and lobby the correct set of parents during kindergarten years?

> All of my kid’s sixth grade friends have smartphones

My condolences. I agree that it's too late once you hit a tipping point and a critical mass of their friends have smartphones. At that point you have to fall back to weaker backup defenses like parental controls and limiting screen time. The point of Wait Until 8th is to provide a little more time to let them form their own self-image and build up their ability to manage their attention and information diet.

> Do you really think you can predict your kids future friends correctly and lobby the correct set of parents during kindergarten years?

Instead of trying to predict the "correct" set you can just lobby everyone. Our public school has about a hundred kids per grade from K through 8th. Parents bring it up not just at school pickup but on playdates, the local listserv, the PTO newsletter, when new families move to the neighborhood, etc.

Apparently several older grades have managed to hold the line such that most kids in that grade didn't have smartphones until high school, and many didn't even have smartwatches or dumbphones.

I moved from the east coast to the Midwest during the pandemic. Any lobbying I would have done during early elementary years would have gone to waste.

And even if I hadn’t moved I would have had to lobby at not just my elementary school but the other two schools that feed into the same middle school.

I play K Sweet too! I love them.

Gives me the impression that you aren’t even allowed to play chess if you aren’t a nerd.

For me it’s that last one and also wanting more of my money to flow through my community. I don’t want to live in a world where 10 trillionaires control everything. I already tried to avoid Amazon but Bezos blocking the Post from endorsing a political candidate as we descend into extreme oligarchy was the last straw.

I adore burl. Burl coffee tables, cell phone cases, jewelry boxes, guitars, you name it.

I should start taking classes now so that I’ll be ready to pivot to woodworking when AI replaces engineers.

Ha it’s already a severely impacted field. Every other computer programmer that doesn’t live in a city is a woodworker.

I highly recommend Frank Howarth’s YouTube channel. I could watch him work for days and he is a great introduction to everything wood turning, from artistic inspiration of wood choice to tools and process. He’s just a pleasure to watch.

sounds like there's a market for a woodshop in the city, gym membership style.

Men's Sheds if you're in Australia.

https://mensshed.org/

There's already one in Seattle: https://www.isgoodwoodworks.com/

They have those but it’s never the same in a shared space.

My town (Madison WI) has one. You can rent time or do classes. I kind of want to do it but I already have too many hobbies.

Isn’t that what maker spaces are?

Maker spaces tend to focus on high-tech tools, like 3D printers, laser cutters, electronic cutters (cricut/silhouette), etc. Some also have woodshops but that's less common and typically requires more space.

In the UK there are maker spaces of all varieties. But you are right, woodworking spaces need room for the equipment. If you are a hand-tool only woodworker, then there isn't really a need to use someone else's (unsharpened) tools.

I'd love to see a site like this for the US, Canada and/or Europe. https://openworkshopnetwork.com/

Speed to market. One person or a very small team can build a feature-rich app in Rails (or equivalent framework) faster than any other approach.

Plenty of companies end up building the wrong product altogether and need to pivot when they realize customers don't care about feature X and need feature Y instead. In cases like these you hope you get the right product out there and survive long enough to regret building with the fast framework instead of the finely tuned ultra performant version.

It’s why I moved my personal site from Phoenix to Go and it has proven to he a great choice. I have zero dependencies so they never go out of date.

Because there’s no money or prestige in it. There are plenty of people who understand the craft and could do it. It’s easy enough to imagine some cultural moment - say a popular romance set in the era - bringing it back for a season of baroque hype.

For 10 years I’ve been reading about cool Elixir stuff here. Love the language. I gave up on finding a job in Elixir many years ago though after seeing salaries consistently lower than more mainstream languages. It may be the language I’d want to use most, but salary and cool product are more important to me than tech stack so it may never happen. Still fun to follow from afar.

> seeing salaries consistently lower than more mainstream languages

That seems surprising to me as an Elixir developer. Are you looking in the US, or elsewhere?

I keep an eye out in the US and there just aren't many of them out there.

And you have to be careful because some of those are

* "Bob wanted to try out Elixir, so now we use it for this one microservice, but we're mostly a PHP/Rails/Java/Python/whatever shop and we'd like to rewrite it one day, because Bob left a few years ago" - places where someone wanted to play with something shiny and new.

* Early stage firms where someone is a true believer that BEAM is some kind of magic scaling bullet or secret sauce.

Can confirm, am early stage founder who is a true believer that BEAM is some kind of magic scaling bullet or secret sauce, currently looking for elixir dev.

(mostly joking, if anyone is actually interested in ML, NLP, and Elixir, I have more pragmatic reasons for switching. Feel free to get in touch)

Dammit that first bullet is giving me PTSD

Salaries are consistently above other mainstream stacks, partly because most Elixir jobs look for senior engineers.