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The same thing happened to Twitter. All the online properties we used will be gutted and sunsetted eventually. The only thing we can do is move on and slash and burn a new pasture.

18 years is a good run as far as these things go.

Azure is the MS Teams of clouds.

This entire exercise if anything is a huge indictment of Azure.

But that doesn't matter because the kind of person that buys Azure, just like the kind of person that buys MS Teams, is entirely driven by price and does not care about anything else.

From Github to Gitlab? Out of the frying pan into the fire.

It'd be nice if there was a good alternative for anybody working at scale.

The only good things at Meta are the things they bought (Whatsapp and Instagram). They haven't made anything original in a long long time.

Too much growth!

(Or too many people going back to Twitter.)

This makes a lot of sense. We've seen how quickly and randomly Claude Code can sour on you (if it's even up). Nobody who uses this for work wants to be reliant on that.

A lot of blood in the water for Github.

> to browser-based alternatives

And many of those tool providers could see for 10-20 years now that if they didn't provide a web based version sometime soon, they would go out of business sooner or later.

There are almost no applications that a government employee should be running natively on their machine anyway.

The main reason I use Aerospace (after a thorough testing of most macOS third party window managers) is for the space management and instant space switching.

This test is good and also I'm not sure it's meant to be funny, but it is very funny.

> developers write commit messages

The people who don't write commit messages for us are the non developers.

Writing commit messages shouldn't take any time at all. If it does, then you probably have a range of other professional issues.

Nix does not really work in that even basic things are absurdly complicated and can take days of messing with poor libraries and documentation.

That's not been my experience with jj which after the initial hurdle is a breeze.

Pretty much everybody who does work at the real office where I am has a mechanical keyboard by now.

How do you get good like this?

One group of people pretends to have written something and another group of people pretends to have read something. Much productivity is gained.

Zizek had a great point about this.

I think that's fair. Funny to have a language that makes it prohibitively difficult to use most of the core computer science constructs (lists, graphs etc.).

No Swift was developed as a strategic moat around Apple's devices. They cannot be dependent on any other party for the main language that runs on their hardware. Controlling your own destiny full stack means having your own language.

Swift is Apple's toy language and they cannot and will not allow it to be anything more than that.

Great work on the 20% of making a working chat app. Now somebody has to do the remaining 80% and then the other remaining 80%.

It’s against money laundering. Onerous regulations being interpreted highly defensively create these kind outcomes.

Neither the people creating the legislations nor the people at Apple responsible for these flows care very much about collateral damage.

All these platforms are kind of a non-starter at scale. The thing that would really stand out is something that has the user friendly workflow definition but then for production running, bakes it into a container that's orchestrated on k8s natively.

We figured out a decade ago or so that Slack was entirely unsustainable for any kind of community type usage. Glad to see that more people are coming to that realization.

NPM is a Github company and when there was a relatively serious attack in Github Actions a while back there was also pretty much zero response from them.

Github is SOC2 compliant, but that of course means nothing really.

The amount of times I've used `git bisect` productively can be counted on one hand.

It takes altogether too long for many people to find out that they have a body.

Is it better than Cleanshot?

> An AWS consultant who’d been covering my bills disappeared, citing losses from the FTX collapse.

Yeah, well. The dog ate my homework.

GitHub’s incident response to this took 17 hours give or take.

Actions is a paid service but Microsoft probably replaced all the security teams with AI.

Somewhere after 18:00 CET Friday.