It is too bad Erik Naggum did not live to see the AI era.

I think the responses to your comment show the whirlwind of 'wtf?' confronting any programmer contemplating front end development for the first time.

What you wrote is probably true (and the one "see how far you can get in react only" comment is probably a decent path, but the landscape is overwhelming.

Yeah, the frontend scene definitely suffers from hype-driven development: it's not good enough that we have a tool to do the job, we need the tool to be the bestest ever on every possible metric, so we end up with a treadmill of additional frameworks, bundlers, etc. that are hyped up in any given year.

E.g., I might think to ask, "Which tool creates the output with the lesser overhead on the client, Webpack or Vite?" But I can't find anything solid about that, since everyone's too busy hyping up the dev experience or whatever.

It's a shame that you have to swim against the tide so heavily, if you value simplicity over immediate kitchen-sink levels of functionality. Personally, I've landed on pure client-side React (with any bundler, or with Babel alone if you're feeling adventurous) since it doesn't try to have any purpose other than updating components according to state. Many of its competitors have too much poorly-documented magic for my taste.

1- It's PERA that changes the alice/mayo test. PREVAIL is the old STRONGER Patents act that is introduced every Congress.

2- Yeah, the one 'reasonable' complaint of IPR critics is the different evidentiary bar for litigation vs IPR.

IANAL but it's difficult to find a member of the patent bar outside of pharma/npe's that supports either bill.

> the patent bar outside of pharma/npe's

that's it exactly. Pharma really should have its own patent regime, or at least, software & pharma should not have the same one.

some large contracting firms will do corp-to-corp, but most of the clients still want a firewall between them and your alleged IC classification.

The rule does not implement the ABC test from California. Indeed, the DOL has gone on at length about why it believes it cannot do that.

Unlike the Cal Supreme Court decision in Dynamex and the subsequent AB5 legislation, which _presumes_ a worker is an employee unless their work passes each prong of the ABC test, DOL still has the burden of proof under this rule.

Your biggest risk was actually the PRO Act, and it will never pass.

And if you have multiple clients who have limited control over how you do your work, you're a bona fide independent supplier anyway.

Have to see the final text, of course, but open source models apparently got some breaks in the final agreement last Friday.

Unfortunately rational narrow bills that benefit ordinary citizens rarely make it out of committee. But it _is_ nice to see the effort.

I hear you, and have been in similar situations with an extra zero on the figure.

At the end of the day, the value wasn't in the memo itself but rather in making the person who asked you for it look competent to their boss ("yes, this agenda item is covered, we are ready for the meeting").

I make no normative judgment on whether or not that is bullshit.

> There are ‘flunkies’, such as administrative assistants or elevator operators, who do work solely to make other people feel more important

From the article paraphrasing Graeber's work. Seems pretty close.

Biden's EO on cyber [0] mandates the agencies move to multifactor auth and zero trust architecture. Requirements on agencies flow through to their contractors, and eventually to the industries they regulate. When most consumer banks don't even do real 2FA (miss me with SMS pls), the TAM is yuuuge.

When the EO came out there were at least five publicly traded identity companies of any size: Okta, CyberArk, Sailpoint, Ping, Forgerock. Thoma Bravo subsequently bought Sailpoint, Ping, and Forgerock at meaningful premiums (~50%). VCs notice things like this.

[0] https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-action...

There's also the SOC 2 requirement and SSO makes that a lot easier.

It's a picks/shovels play in PE-land. They really like tools being successfully sold into .gov.