that's a good thing, many a time I've discovered some real gems by people telling us about alternatives

super useful when you have an application, i.e. not a browser, that is making api calls that you want to inspect.

This is along the lines of "If it hurts, do it more often.” Where the general idea is that you will work out ways to make it not hurt if you regularly have to do something.

even before LLMs you could/can get a lot of info on the web. Most ideas presented in books exist on the internet somewhere, quite a few pass through HN. In the 90s and early 2ks I used to hoard books, but now, not so much, I get a few through my library these days but a lot of times I just find the book is padded out to be a book and the meaty bit of the book is usually tiny.

I also find that docs have gotten a lot better over time as well. I feel that Y2K era of numerous large tomes was largely to fill in the gap left after software publishers stopped shipping even their full price boxed software with meaty manuals, assuming I guess that help menus and GUI context (or maybe even Clippy) would get you there. Even some of the enterprisey software- Oracle comes to mind- would ship with like 6-10 volumes of reference information but very little in the way of a getting started guide that showed you how to get basic stuff up and running or what best practices were.

The web got a little better, and what drove brainshare and usage was a good experience getting started with reasonable defaults and good docs to get you started. API design is also much better these days- I was trying to find some examples of how unintuitive say MFC (Microsoft Foundation Classes- big in the win9x days) apis were, but a lot of those docs seem to have disappeared- here is a stackoverflow/experts-exchange links that show how non-intuitive it was: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3255207/window-handle-in... https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/10018203/How-to-g...

Motif on the Unix side of things was a bit better, but not much. You really needed a good book to walk you through things in a more understandable way.

as per the response to my comment, try SponsorBlock

basically, ublock origin on PC, tends to work well, I don't really see ads except for when the content creator plugs a product directly in their content.

SponsorBlock works really well against this.

I just installed this, looks good on the few videos I've tried!

Glad to hear your entertainment journey will now be free of cheap Chinese earpods, VPNs, website builders and meal kit boxes.

and if you find a video that hasn't had the ads tagged yet, the UI for it is pretty easy to figure out.

apparently I've imported 10 recipes....but I haven't used it. But then it had a freakout when I went in and tried going back, and .... yeah. Somehow I'm stuck on a link that has another link to turkish pasta. Guess I'll wait another 4 years

CBOR is a pretty good middle ground

a variation of lisp is SUPER easy to do, give it some primitives to graphics/sounds/inputs and away you go

Stick with Github if it solves your problem. No particular reason to move off, only reasons I've seen so far is "don't like Microsoft" and "Don't like the UI". But overall, GitHub is the leading tech in this space. For FOSS, I can see why some may want to move off, but for commercial work, it's great. Seems to be a bit of a bandwagon of articles of people moving off hitting hackernews (which in reality represents a tiny percentage of users), no need to hop on the bandwagon unless you have some compelling reasons for something else.