This type of question is called a "Ballot measure." 26/50 states have initiative or veto referendum processes, which means Citizens can collect signatures to place a law on the ballot. A coalition containing unions (i.e. service & tire) and others were able to collect 103,604 signatures in support of this law which was more than the required 80,239 to have the question appear on the Massachusetts ballot. They submitted this all in late 2019 and there was some back and forth with the legislature and they were required to collect some more signatures which they did successfully (skipping some legal stuff). After all the signatures were verified, it was certified for the November 2020 ballot (in MA).
I love RSS. I started using it again late last year and it's a joy once you find the RSS app that fits your needs. Currently very happy with Miniflux, but also gave TT-RSS a try and found that both would work great for me but preferred the resource usage of Miniflux.
> As someone who has used Angular 2 since beta, I can tell you, it's been a bumpy ride nonetheless.
I can second this - I've been working on a variety of Angular apps in an enterprise environment. It's worked fine and the "batteries included" has worked for my org, but it has definitely been a bumpy ride to get from beta to 9 with plenty of changes along the way.
> And here I am using HTML and CSS with tiny sprinkles of JS for most websites, and it's working just fine, and has been for many years.
This has been my favorite setup at work - pick "boring" tech like Django/Flask or Spring Boot and then sprinkle in some Javascript for highly interactive forms/pieces (React or Vue if needed).
I have been involved in a slow-rolling project at work to migrate a fair number of administrative screens and their data (written in the late 80s/early 90s) off of the existing zOS mainframe, primarily because of the costs (management doesn't want to pay IBM anymore for the limited set of things it's being used for and finding devs is expensive too). The project has already run way past the original estimate, no major surprise.
Our new APIs and web UIs are nice and all and offer a number of advantages for today's users/admins, but sometimes it feels they take more babysitting and fuss (updating deps, etc.) than the old mainframe code did - I'm not confident that an Angular SPA running for 20+ years would still work the same, so we have tried to take that into consideration while designing replacements.
I'm not complaining about one or the other but rather I feel lucky to have experienced tradeoffs and learned about how some of these problems were solved 20-30 years ago, while I was still in grade school.
Not everything needs to be an Angular SPA, surely? It seems obvious that choosing a well-understood server side platform would make way more sense for something like this.
You're absolutely correct - we have a healthy mix of traditional server-side web applications and a small number of SPAs only where it makes sense (usually complex forms with lots of feedback/conditionals). I just used Angular as an (admittedly) easy target. These days, I've been trying my best to avoid SPA for enterprise stuff if possible
RSS has been really great for me over the last year or so (when I got back into it). I tried Feedly, and then Inoreader. I was not willing to pay for either and ended up trying out the two popular self-hosted options: ttrss (tiny tiny rss) and Miniflux. Stuck with Miniflux for its simplicity. Using the Fever API with Reeder on my Mac and Readably on my Android.
My thing with self hosting is that I'm using a shared plan. I currently have over 500 feeds, and I don't think they'd be all that happy about it if well... um... I decided to use RSS on their servers.
This looks lovely for a self hosted Kanban board. Of course there are _lots_ of paid products out there for this too, but there are a lot of times where my company would prefer something free and self hosted.
Slightly unrelated: It looks like the author is the same as the self-hosted RSS reader Miniflux which I've been using for 4-6 months now and has been fantastic (Miniflux is linked in the footer and the primary committer is the same on both repos).
If anyone's curious about this from 3 camels standpoint they made a blog post about this. I was curious what the non-Amazon opinion would be so I
went looking: https://camelcamelcamel.com/blog/amazon-eu-covid-19
They are being generous to amazon. You can clearly see that amazon raised prices 30%+ on things like dishwasher tablets and other stuff. It’s not showing up on camel camel because amazon is showing them a different price then what you get as a logged in user. As soon as you login to order amazon jacks up the price on you. That’s their “scam”
This is fair enough (and I had read the blog entry before posting, but had forgotten it - thanks!), but why only EU? I assume they are separate operating entities to the US/other domains, but it's not obvious why the logic should apply in one region but not another, though I suppose the difficulties are varying from country to country - but along similar trajectories I would have thought.
I have a 2013 Accord with a touch screen (bought it used and it's what came with it) instead of button controls. The latency on the screen is terrible and my father's Acura RDX which does not have a touch panel is much more user-friendly. I would love if more manufacturers started to put more analog controls back into their cars, but kept the non-touch screens for info display/backup cameras.
Thanks for mentioning this, my org is in the process of evaluating various options for Infrastructure as code stuff and Terraform is very high up on that list. I don't believe Pulumi has been discussed and looks quite good, always nice to be able to suggest it before adoption.
Looks lovely - I'll be testing this out on a few clients websites for simpler stats experience viewing for them.
I do have Google Analytics running on them but GA can be complicated for some users (especially starting out a basic blog), and they love being able to see everything in one place. I've tried a few "display GA stats in WP admin" plugins but they always feel a bit half-baked.
If you are curious for more detail, Ballotpedia has a good overview of information in their "path to the ballot" section: https://ballotpedia.org/Massachusetts_Question_1,_%22Right_t...