KIXX.NEWS edition for:
Tuesday, April 22, 2025
Today is Earth Day!
It's also National Jelly Bean Day in the US. So, take that for what it's worth.
We start today with a couple of essays to kindle your entrepreneurial spirit from a couple of icons in the startup world: Jason Cohen and Paul Graham.
Then we attempt to settle the debate between web components vs. JavaScript frameworks, before Jamie Zawinski reminds us that mobile software "upgrades" are usually anything but upgraded.
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Not disruptive, and proud of it
I remember “disruptive” when it was called a “paradigm shift.” You should be worrying more about making something people want to buy, and less about disrupting everything.
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What are startups really like?
"I decided to ask the founders of the startups we'd funded. What hadn't I written about yet?"
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Web Components are not Framework Components
There has been quite a lot of recent debate about Web Components vs. Frameworks. Lea has a good take on it: Maybe they are not mutually exclusive?
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Upgrades
We have now reached the point where iOS 15 on my 9 year old phone has been "upgraded" sufficiently that when I am typing at speed, characters show up on screen nearly half a second later.
We went to the moon. We used to be a society.
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