The book "Nexus" by Yuval Noah Harari essentially makes this same point. The way he phrases it is that information's primary role throughout history hasn't necessarily been to convey objective truth but to connect people and enable large scale cooperation. So more information is not necessarily better.

Worth a read or you can check out one of his recent podcast appearances for a quicker download.

I started this in 2015 and I'm still keeping up with it. Maybe it will work for you.

https://medium.com/@markracette/make-every-day-matter-9ac6db...

Oliver Rackham (the woodland history bloke in the UK) used small notebooks. Kept one in his pocket. Went everywhere with them. More of a free-form approach.

https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/rackham/1

Could you share the template please?

Isn't this exactly what useLayoutEffect is for? https://react.dev/reference/react/useLayoutEffect

useLayoutEffect is called after the render cycle but before the “paint”. useMemo is called during the render cycle (i.e. immediately).

You can confirm this via console.log:

useMemo(() => console.log(1), [])

console.log(2)

… will print 1 then 2.

If you replace useMemo with useLayoutEffect, you’ll get 2 then 1.

Yeah, those pages are definitely auto-generated. Static site generation makes it possible for those types of pages (I call them "shims") to jump to the top of the results list. I wrote about it here: https://zestyrx.com/blog/nextjs-ssg

I don't see what static site generation has to do with it. You can spin up a huge number of shims even more easily with a dynamic site and a DB with a list of all the messages you want shims for.

SSG gives you the best SEO because web crawlers can understand the structure of a static page with pre-populated content better than a dynamic site that relies on Javascript. The pages also load much quicker and score better on other metrics that Google uses. I would go so far as to say that SSG is a must for major publications or anyone serious about SEO. This sort of data-driven SSG is exactly what you are thinking of but it happens at build time so that the build output is static content that can be put behind a CDN.

Absolute nonsense. You don't need a static site generator to serve up an HTML page instead of rendering with JS. People have been doing dynamic pages since before JS even existed.

The difference in speed between running a simple script and reading a file is not large enough to noticeably affect SEO.

Most of these sites are probably just using PHP, not any static site generator.

This is partially due to the proliferation of data-driven static site generation.

Two types of sites I see popping up are:

1) "shims", which generate the bare minimum static content required to get listed on Google, usually for obscure or long-tail queries

2) "skins", which make exact copies of sites with publicly available context (like Wikipedia or npmjs.org).

Both are enabled by tools like NextJS which allow you to take data and convert it to a static site which does well with SEO.

I wrote about this in depth here: https://zestyrx.com/blog/nextjs-ssg

> SSGs have had neglible impact on non-technical users.

I don't think so. Publishers are leaning heavily into SSG to improve SEO: https://zestyrx.com/blog/nextjs-ssg

Funny, I wrote about this recently as well.

I'm a huge fan of SSG but concerned about the impact that it has on SEO and search engine quality.

https://zestyrx.com/blog/nextjs-ssg

I’ve read that police simply aren't reporting low level crimes at the rate they used to due to staffing shortages and apathy. I would be curious to see the data too, but I doubt it paints the whole picture.

That’s far from the only benefit. Lawns have immense recreational value especially for families with children.

Yea I think you’re underestimating the euphoric effects of alcohol.

With pot, there are various types of highs that can be produced. With alcohol, there's just one.

Plus, there are people out there who don't experience euphoria from alcohol, it instead throws them into a depressive spiral.

You can definitely produce different highs with alcohol, getting drunk from vodka is different to wine is different to beer. In the end one is drunk, yes, but feeling is still quite distinct. So pretty much the same as with pot, where you can have vastly different highs but in the end are just that: high

Not my experience at all. Give weed to 10 different people, and they'll experience 12 different reactions to it. With alcohol, it's more or less roughly the same for everyone.