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I'm interesting in playing around with a project that involves text-to-video. Basically ~20 second video clips based on a text summary.

I've looked at e.g. gemini which seems to refuse to generate even the most mundane things without explanation, some chatgpt options, and runwayml, the last of which seemed to be the best option but appears to be ridiculously expensive. I think runwayml also is limited to like ~10 second videos maximum, I think? Which is not enough.

Anyone got any ideas?

I have a few upcoming projects that will be fairly content heavy and need good SEO. Most of my experience is in mobile and embedded systems dev, though I've briefly touched Rails and Node.js.

The last site I had, was just an index.html file, some css, and a bit of attached JS. I threw it on a ridiculously expensive webhost (MediaTemple) and that was that.

What's the best and cheapest way to build a fairly content heavy site these days, without as much "magic" as possible? I can write Javascript but I've read previous threads like this and people are often throwing out names like Next.js, React, or whatever the new shiny thing is, and it seems like massive overkill. I generally like to be able to reason about systems I write with not too much "magic" and 102321232 dependencies.

Any suggestions?

I took a bit of a sabbatical and am returning to the workforce. The demand for my usual "niche" in software is dying and supply is extremely over saturated.

What skills, tech stacks, languages, or libraries are absolutely the most in demand for jobs and highest paying as of April 2024? Evidence for your answers would be extremely appreciated!

Been spending a bunch of time trying to get on their hiring platform. After a bunch of surveys on soft skills, assessments for selected tech stacks are required to receive job opportunities.

It seems like the assessment tests are written by a machine and/or scraped entirely from questions in online repositories.

As an example, here's a screenshot of one of their nonsense questions for an Android assessment: https://prnt.sc/waKVQjFoETwr

Almost all the questions are like that. I also figured out that a bunch of the questions seem to be copied word for word from online repositories like https://github.com/Ebazhanov/linkedin-skill-assessments-quizzes/blob/main/android/android-quiz.md.

Tried to speak to a person about all the issues which make taking an assessment impossible, and just got more bots.

I'm sure many are looking for jobs, so figured this would save people a bunch of time.

I'm looking for a new hobby project after taking a coding hiatus and thought it would be great to try and build one of those collaborate whiteboard things (like Figma's FigJam and plenty others).

I'm curious as to what everyone thinks the best stack would be for something like this. What sort of technologies are used for actually drawing to a zoomable canvas?

I have experience with React and Angular, but I've never worked on a project that requires this type of frontend. I assume there's a bunch of websocket work involved but that seems like the easiest part.

What sort of tech stack are these things usually built with?

I'm talking about those online things like Miro, Figma's FigJam, Google's Jamboard. They are online collaborative whiteboards.

I'd like to build one for learning purposes but not sure what sort of tech stacks those things usually use.

I have some familiarity with React and websockets..is that what they are usually built with?

If anyone has some insight into those things I'd love to know!

I've built a few APIs, primarily using either Node.js with the Express framework or Rails in the API configuration.

They've both worked, but Node.js often feel "unwieldy" very quickly, while Rails often seems like way to much magic and rigidness.

I'm about to start working on a new project and wondering if it's worth trying something else. I have a lot of experience with Kotlin, so thought about ktor. I also keep hearing good things about Go.

So, what is your opinion? What would you use?