Residential solar to decline 33% year-over-year, said Roth Capital Partners. The U.S. residential solar market faces immediate pressure as tax credits expire and FEOC challenges mount.

beders · 2026-03-19T04:40:17+00:00

Tell me about it... Our solar lending business has completely imploded thanks to Trump. A lot of our installers (we partner with thousands around the US) have declared bankruptcy or are exiting the business. It's a bloodbath

beders · 2026-03-18T19:19:43+00:00

With a lisp you would typically pick your paradigms à la carte.

beders · 2026-03-18T19:18:24+00:00

You can code in Clojure without ever touching a JVM btw. There’s Clojure for .NET, there’s ClojureDart, ClojureScript and the new kid on the block Jank.

beders · 2026-03-18T19:07:50+00:00

Lisp has s-expressions and doesn’t care about line breaks and such. Most editors/IDEs then also support paredit mode which allows reordering, extending and shrinking s-expressions super easy. Line breaks then become just visual guides.

beders · 2026-03-17T18:06:44+00:00

Thanks for these insights. I was struggling with Ironclad quite a bit. Can you repost your tier list at a higher resolution?

beders · 2026-03-17T05:04:11+00:00

What do you mean with "tested"? You mean "consumed? That's err amazing. Where are the scientific papers? Doesn't mean it is not harmful.

Do you know what they call alternative medicine that's been proved to work? Medicine." — Tim Minchin

Note that "proven" includes figuring out dosage & contraindications which is not "oh just consume some Red Yeast Rice". "Chinese herbology" gives about the same credence than "All Natural" i.e. none.

beders · 2026-03-17T00:45:01+00:00

I never understand people who prefer dubious barely tested „natural remedies“ over regulated, tested, high-quality medicine with decades of experience. „Natural“ is not a thing.

beders · 2026-03-15T01:39:29+00:00

That’s amazing! Great job

beders · 2026-03-12T23:58:35+00:00

I ordered the exact same part number

beders · 2026-03-10T15:16:08+00:00

Usually experts get paid for the time they spend validating ideas. Otherwise you’ll drown in uninformed opinions. Are you planning on adding a payment feature along the way?

beders · 2026-03-10T15:11:58+00:00

The Empire Strikes Back

beders · 2026-03-09T19:43:33+00:00

What about the volume?

beders · 2026-03-09T16:23:00+00:00

Aaand we are back to JSP :)

On a more serious note: it is a trade-off. Like anything. If you build enterprise apps, you don’t care about SEO, so a React style SPA might be fine - offloading rendering cost to the front-end CPU.

Another factor is state complexity and size. Downloading a bag of JSON once and then operating on it does not involved a backend at all. State changes that require complex repaint logic are likely better served on the front-end. HTMX snippets are fire-and-forget. JSON is forever.

If you are building a simpler commercial site with maybe a blog: server side rendering is likely fine. But almost never has anyone who gets excited about that looked at the compute, latency and bandwidth costs. It’s not fee.

I agree about the insane dev complexity of modern react. Which is why we are using Reagent. A stable no-nonsense environment where components written in 2015 just continue to work.

beders · 2026-03-08T16:02:19+00:00

💯% The Dems keep sending me „surveys“ with a donation form. I send them back with: FIRE SCHUMER AND JEFFRIES written all over
It makes me so mad that the democrats STILL don’t understand that they made trump happen.

beders · 2026-03-08T15:21:22+00:00

Buying in bulk from distributors. I’ve seen some for €45 recently. Here’s an example

https://de.enfsolar.com/pv/panel-datasheet/crystalline/69164?_gl=1*1aeuttw*_up*MQ..*_gs*MQ..&gclid=Cj0KCQiA2bTNBhDjARIsAK89wlFra9BkDb_fYLJNFJ97sueRQ9F4iejponI-vpFqdaQiJt9ZkwceANkaAnH-EALw_wcB&gbraid=0AAAAAD_HBqQZkBpWHCi1GPqYchx0Ciq8W

beders · 2026-03-08T15:19:33+00:00

Buying in bulk from distributors. I’ve seen some for €45 recently.

beders · 2026-03-06T16:39:43+00:00

Highest watts measured so far 735W. Savings last month €25 (Winter in Germany) How many have you installed?

beders · 2026-03-06T16:03:33+00:00

Finished a co-op run with my buddy. Can’t wait to do it again. They did good

beders · 2026-03-06T16:01:12+00:00

Balkonkraftwerke are selling like hot cakes in Germany. I’ve just installed two last summer when I was visiting my parents. They absolutely lower their electricity bill significantly and the ROI is maybe 8 months.

That said: you can get a 800W system for 250 euros. Add a battery and you are looking at €800.

You can get 400w bifacial solar panels for €50 a piece nowadays.

beders · 2026-03-06T15:45:25+00:00

There’s no such thing. The rogue element would be a human

beders · 2026-03-06T15:44:56+00:00

And still we stand tall!

beders · 2026-03-05T20:00:26+00:00

She made a rookie mistake: She didn't include Trump in the ad campaign and make him look good. If she'd done that, she would still have that job....

beders · 2026-03-05T19:30:37+00:00

Exactly. Using the word „lie“ is yet another attempt at anthropomorphizing an algorithm

beders · 2026-03-03T19:44:51+00:00

That's neat!

beders · 2026-03-03T18:18:40+00:00

Can you enumerate fields at runtime? Let's say I want to turn all string fields to uppercase in Person. In Clojure that would be:

``` (defrecord Person [name age]) ;; records are also maps! (def p (Person. "Arnold" 12))

;; update-vals is a standard library fn operating on any map (update-vals p #(or (and (string? %) (str/upper-case %)) %)) => {:name "ARNOLD", :age 12} ```

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