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the way that mortgages work is bad for the economy and society bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

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With Val Town, it’s never been easier to launch new ideas. The platform makes programming accessible, collaborative, and fun. We’re thrilled to partner with the team: Steve Krouse, Tom MacWright, Max McDonnell, & André Terron. accel.com/noteworthy/our…

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losing my mind all over again that this works for DnD in hyperscript async transparancy/event driven control flow is so flipping cool...

IMO these are the cutting-edge empirical questions for the various circles of housing policy:

YIMBYs: Does upzoning increase market-wide housing supply, or does it just move the type & location of houses that would've been built anyway?

Georgists: Does LVT itself increase…

react is old: macwright.com/2024/04/04/rea…

.Val Town server and frontend deps are… 67% esm and rising! chipping away at the holdouts.

the state of the mapping industry's open source software…

a big point that is sometimes buried in how i discuss this stuff:

i think it would be a massive failure if the only people who could afford to work on open source were employed by a trillion dollar company like msoft, google, or aws

a trick we use in Val Town to show documentation from our Astro starlight docs site within the app: macwright.com/2024/04/03/sta…

Amazon has announced they're phasing out their checkout-less grocery stores.

The 'Just Walk Out' technology, which was labeled as automatic, was actually 1,000+ Indian employees monitoring you as you walked through the store.

gizmodo.com/amazon-reporte…

recently: macwright.com/2024/04/02/rec…