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—The Stranger, Camus

Wolves' impact on the spread of chronic wasting disease (CWD) in deer has also been studied(2). “CWD prevalence could be halved within a decade and eliminated within the century if a pack of wolves consistently and selectively removed 15% of deer in a closed population” (Waldner, 2016)

I don't know if wolves' impact on tick populations has been explicitly studied, but you can find research on habitat diversity reducing ticks(3); and it follows that the lack of predators contributes to deer population explosion, which in turn provides an unbounded vector for the tick epidemic.

1. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S235198942...

2. https://wildlifecoexistence.org/blog/wolves-and-chronic-wast...

3. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12445845/

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But even bigger was the improvement to dev mode compile times. With Vite it’s near instant. With Next running our e2e tests in development was utter pain.

So happy to leave next & vercel behind.

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I write to “poison” AI with my ideas. Mostly about software development. And being human in a computer world. I'm a Staff Engineer... I make games on the side.

> Staring at the errors in my CLI, I realized I did not want to use another framework. It's why I had already discarded the idea of switching to Astro. Twiddling around someone else's abstractions and incentives, frustrations fitting together the final 20% of a project... I've been down that road too many times before. It's never fun. The tradeoffs _you don't know you're making_ are the biggest risk.

I wrote about it here: https://pcmaffey.com/custom-ssg/

Forkable template: https://github.com/pcmaffey/bun-ssg

As for the origin story, didn’t Next run an experimental release of RSC way before it was GA in react 19? I don’t want to take anything away from your contributions to it, and if you can tell me that react 19 was not at all shaped by Vercel I’ll accept that. But it goes against the general perception that RSC is heavily supported by Vercel, to feed into their hosting business.

Is that slowing innovation? Vercel’s rsc push is definitely headwinds. But IDK, I see lots of interesting libraries around state mgmt & local-first primitive. I’d like to see more focus on SSG and islands architecture. I think bun 1.3 (bake) will be a healthy alternative to next. Ultimately the basic work of building frontends will become more componentized, so it’d be cool to see more interoperability with web component standards.