This was an excellent read. I admire the lengths to which the author has gone to enable this experience and then to document and share it. As a new parent myself, Ive been thinking about this. While I don’t have the same affinity to physical media (IMO its plastic waste), I do want to guard the child from the infinite online slop machine; but I also don’t want them to not use technology that may be useful. My approach is to treat them as a human that can make choices based on tradeoffs… critical to this is perhaps some kind of guided experience with tech so that they are aware of it/dont get bedazzled by something they see their friends/clasmates doing. Im not sure what that will look like but I appreciate other parents are thinking along similar lines.

I do think that what exists now by default is just not acceptable… I and my spouse are privileged to understand how tech works, what it can do to someones mind etc. but the vast majority of people probably don’t… and as such a significant % of children are quite likely having a terrible experience…

can anyone paste a copy for those without meta accounts

"Build Apps for Your Portal with AI"

Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20260605034512/https://developer... / Text: https://pastebin.com/Y2gZx3Pn

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> Andrew Bosworth (Boz) - 7h - "The dev tools we shipped last week for Quest also work on Portal devices! Here is a little home hub I vibe coded a few months back as we started to play with this. Build one yourself!"

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wfm without a meta account but here is the direct link: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1561665975384013

> I don’t think companies will do that. Why don’t they just buy local on-premise infrastructure even though it’s cheaper than AWS?

For customer facing, production software, its worth paying a cloud tax to get the reliability guarantee. For tools that are used by engineers for code development, there is no need for such bulletproof guarantees.

That makes very little sense. SaaS/cloud tooling is overwhelmingly popular for internal tooling.

Which category of developer tool has on-premise as the more popular option?

Cloud isn’t about “reliability,” it’s about being able to focus on your core business rather than spending all your time maintaining stuff.

Local AI servers are different because they don't have to form a single system. If one AI server goes down, just use the other one.

This is unlike customer facing systems where, if your database server goes down, you probably can't just use the other one--the whole system is down.

There are plenty of horizontally scaled systems where the choice is still made to use a cloud provider.

It’s really a lot more about business focus.

I don’t want to hire someone who understands how an email server works if I can pay Microsoft $10/employee/month for an email account.

Yep, its already quite easy to do so with tools like opencode/openrouter. Ive used some open source models and they seem … ok? Im not doing foundational math, just refactoring code, understanding existing code etc. I don’t see a future where companies blow 11% of employee compensation on a single tool; the hosted AI server + oss models will 99% win out.

> The study also raises broader questions about how early cities functioned. Archaeologists often link urban growth with centralized political power and rising social divisions. Mohenjo-daro points toward another model, one where collective governance and public investment shaped the city’s long-term stability.

Fascinating. I hope that discoveries like this increase the interest of the public in investing in historical research... so much of our theory of the world is shaped by a narrow focus on the history of areas that were easier (relatively) to study.

thank you so much for this recommendation. I've been interested in this topic for a while; while I was looking for something a bit more substantial, I do love it when authors explain history in different ways! My original introduction to history was through the Amar Chitra Katha series; ever since I've always had an interest in learning history.

if they sold that much in the open market it would probably decrease the price

google nest 6e version is pretty good

I believe the authors reading of the situation: its likely the interviewer wasn’t intentionally being cruel; most likely its this startups “unique thing that makes them stand out”; quirky twists that every startup attempts to make them stand out from the rest.

Honestly though, I think it ultimately worked out best for all parties. Its clear that the startup didn’t value someone that could be so vulnerable, and hopefully the author ultimately found a place that did.

My personal perspective is that for super early/founding engineer type roles you absolutely have to bring a greater part of yourself to work; you will be working over the weekends, working late, celebrating together and such… generally that environment is closer to a college club or fraternity than a corporation.