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We have a billion platforms for longer vids. The shortness is what made vine amazing. They need to keep it that way.

I’ll get shit on for suggesting it but this is a great use case for AI: comment the code and generate some basic docs. Even if it’s wrong it’ll give you a sense of where to start looking for flows.

Expecting every post to come with a little handholding tutorial isn’t reasonable either. For the surgeon example it doesn’t take a surgeon to give the warning, but that same non-surgeon isn’t necessarily in a position to guide anyone either.

Being encouraged to learn about the basics isn’t gatekeeping, it’s just sound technical advice. Self hosting can be great, but when you shift critical services/infrastructure and something goes south you expose yourself to some serious harm (think self-hosting your password management), or perhaps leave yourself open and vulnerable to threats you don’t understand.

Having access to easier/friendlier tools is great, but using them without fundamental understanding is risky.

Was going to vehemently dispute this and then realized I’ve attempted several pieces to varying degrees of success over the years. How quickly I suppressed the memories.

Definitely! I’ve got an odd ranking system for my pop preferences. I prefer regular Pepsi to regular Coke, Diet Coke to Diet Pepsi, but Coke Zero is the GOAT and ranks top of everything. Pepsi Zero is bottom of the barrel for me.