“Scale matters. Send 1$ to a very small creator and you’ll make their day. Send 50$ to a famous YouTuber and they’ll barely notice it. Send an email to someone who wrote a post that resonated with you on their small personal site and you might start a friendship. Send a message to a famous celebrity and there’s a high chance they won’t even see it.

In an online world dominated by huge online presences, one where reaching a million followers is celebrated with a plaque, maybe we should start spending more time celebrating smallness.”

Manuel Moreale on scale.

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At absolutely no point in the 2020s should you, or anyone you don't hate, start a project with React.

There are a lot of reasons for this -- that it's legacy tech built for a world where IE 6 still had measurable share, that the Reactor community has been wrong about everything all the time for a decade+, that the money you'll save can be measured in truck-loads -- but the *most* important is that it will opt you out of the godforsaken React discourse.

Be free! Never look back. Do engineering.

Aaron Swartz should have been 38 today.

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