Humans are coming in social media to watch reels when the robots will come to social media to discuss quantum physics. Crazy world we are living in!

Looking great. Having some context on the pages would be great, I can understand the grass-rabbit-fox dynamics but not clear with the the rest of the simulations.

And you can persist the page in query param. So someone can directly sent people to particular simulation with data.

I am adding more context soon.

I will work on the url query param persistence - I know its annoying at the moment

What is the usecase for this in the age of React, NextJS? And for static sites we have Astro etc. And even if you need something simple why use jQuery? Vanila JS has better API now. Am I missing anything?

I do a lot of custom JS widget development, games, and utilities that are outside the context of a gigantic framework like React. Not everything is a a full-page SPA. Vanilla JS is indeed better than it was, but I found myself writing small JQ-like libraries and utilities to do tedious or even basic DOM manipulation, so I switched back to JQ and saved myself a lot of time and headaches. Compressed, minified JQ is also pretty small and is negligible in space consumption.

JQ is also used in frameworks like Bootstrap (although I think they’re trying to drop third-party dependencies like this since they tend to cause conflicts).

I have also used JQ in an Angular app where complex on-the-fly DOM manipulation just isn’t practical with standard tooling.

Hobbyists don’t want to learn every new framework. Someone can have a small business website for their activity and have been happy using jQuery since 2010.

Got it. Maintenance of Legacy websites is a big chunk of internet.

Your experiences are fine but don't completely give up and focus on what you can control. Like you can post your thoughts on social media. And don't expect views. Just just write for your own sake.

That would keep you busy and leave room for serendipity.

Quoting from the app "Gary now knows your 'process' talk is just theater. Next time, he'll skip you entirely."

Not at all. Real-life communications are not one-off. I would act differently if Gary does this one-time versus repeatedly.

Understand what you are trying to say but without giving an alternate solution what the reader would do with your thoughts?

Cynicism inherently has no negative connotations. People misrepresented it.

The definition of cynicism as per Google "an inclination to believe that people are motivated purely by self-interest".

This statement has nothing inherently negative. It's science, backed by evolution. The whole economic system is based on incentive analysis, the concept of invisible hand. Software architects are taught the Principle of least privilege, why? Because of cynicism, not trusting motive of others. But for everyday life people can't handle it mentally coz they love to think everyone giving them without any expectations.

I know this sounds counterintuitive but this space is limited to write more. If you have clarifying question you can ask me.

I mostly read historical books this year, multiple analysis of WW1 and WW2. George Bruce's book on British expedition in Afghanistan in 1939. The peacemaker, on Reagan's presidential tenure. Stalin's 2-part biography. Deng Xiaoping biography. The book Collapse of Soviet Union. Sharlock Holmes collection. And many more.

How do you know whether it is coming from AI scrappers? Do they leave any recognizable footprint?

I am getting lots of noisy traffic since last month and increased my Vercel bill 4x. Not DDoS like, much slower request but not from humans for sure.