When requesting data for an entire Google Sheet, you apparently get A1:Z1000 which in my case gets my Livebook hosted on fly.io OOM killed. Fun thing is, most of the result structure has `null` values, because of reasons.

Requesting the data for a smaller range works, obviously. But how do I know the range of the data in the sheet? Like, how do I know the entire table is A1:F25 or so? It would be great if the API can tell me that. It kinda does, but it says the sheet has 26 columns and 1000 rows. Yeah, thanks for the useless info.

How come that the bigger the company, the shittier their APIs?

The Google Sheets API is like any other Google API ... quite uncomfortable to use ...

Brilliant.org seems to copy Duolingo. They have a day streak system and leaderboards. Not good.

Fun fact: I have a Duolingo streak of 1992 days right now.

It is really tempting to just block any Firefox users from what I am building right now.

I don't really see a good way to work around this. I can get the app to not be "broken" broken in FF but it might definitely be ugly in some places.

I have the feeling that the "I build a product for XYZ" idea turned into "I build a rendering engine in HTML canvas".

Not sure if I like that.

But hey, I can now render text in an easier and better way than the bare bones HTML canvas functionality.

I've landed in a weird corner of web development.

During the day, I build UIs with JSON.
During the night, I build UIs with html canvas.

Can companies who stick to "mainstream" tech for various reasons really be able to innovate and do something new?

I don't think so.

Why? Because if a company does something because "everyone else does it like this", that company lacks the mental model that embraces going the path of the unknown. And such a mental model would be required as the foundation for true innovation.