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Cake day: June 18th, 2023

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  • A theory: Biden and the DNC do not want to risk a primary process that could result in the nominee being Sanders or AOC, which could happen if Biden announced he was not going to run for reelection. So, he is officially running for reelection (still/ for now) and thus suppressing an open primary. However, if he were to step back from running late, Newsom’s actions like this one would position him as a consensus nominee.

    A hiccup in this theory is that usually, Harris as VP would be POTUS’s successor (and she would be automatically, if anything happened after the convention). Harris could be positioned better as a next CA governor or maybe even VP again. However, the scope of her popularity is not all that high. Newsom and she could make a deal of some sort.







  • From the user perspective, they’re great. They’re safer as they are sandboxed in the browser (correct me if I’m mistaken). They load really fast. They cooperate with ad blockers. They can provide notifications. You can also use them for a lot of things, even games: e.g. https://frvr.com/

    Sometimes, mobile web is far better than the app. For example, searches in the Target app takes ages. I have target.com/cart installed as a home screen shortcut, and it’s so much better.

    I don’t know why apps are so promoted. It could be user expectation (they expect to need to install an app to use a service); businesses thinking that apps are part of marketing (app store as billboard); or maybe businesses get a lot more telemetry from apps (trackers). Typically, when it comes to features, IMHO the ones that require app installation from a technical standpoint are not worth it (e.g. AR).