That's sad! Simplenote is a really useful and quick note taking app that's minimal but not missing anything for this kind of app. It's like notational velocity but done in a clean way, and synchronizing across devices. For me it was really enough for many years.

PS. And there is this surprise when you discover that all notes are versioned.

Creating a simple application that had a database backend, data presentation gui and some simple CRUD logic took like 15-30 mins. All from scratch. How does it compare to today’s tools? And I am not talking about taking some ready off the shelf solution that you don’t really understand internally…

Those were good times and I really regret all those mishaps that happened to this great ecosystem and its eventual collapse :(

Would you share the link to the answer?

It probably starts with the habit of writing words without using the Shift key or diacritics. Just to be quick. At least, that’s how I’ve noticed this behavior in myself.

I've seen - and used - such nocaps patterns as far back as the 90's on IRC.

As I remember there was no singular reason; not having to pinky-press shift was definitely a factor.

There are also some medieval reenactment groups who do some real battles (with rules of course) and that is totally about fighting with each other. Something like a fight club but set in medieval context.

The Royal Armouries in Leeds, England has that. Well worth a visit if you're in the area.

adjust that for the population...

Couldn’t disagree more… if you go the ZMQ you are left alone handling many things you get in Kafka for free. If you have any sort of big data problems then good luck. You are going to reinvent the wheel.

Actually the manifesto is linked in the second paragraph. Reading this page and then the manifesto was good experience for me.

There is this theory of „adjacent possible”, that quite well explains why the technology develops the way it does. Some enabler technologies or inventions or even economy are just not just there yet for next thing to happen.

Is there actually any browser that could store streaming content before displaying it, after all decoding etc?

Well, there is yt-dlp, if you count that as a browser. It has hacks for downloading from nearly every website that has weak DRM. It also has a fallback for guessing how to download from arbitrary websites.

If you mean drm'd content, I think that's hopeless now, the security is at the hypervisor level nowadays. I can't even play that content on my old vga monitors. For the average youtube video, I don't see why not in principle.

"after all decoding" isn't desirable because then you have to re-encode it, incurring generation loss.