thebiglebrewski

I just kept singing this to the tune of that "What about men?" song from Portlandia...

What about Rails, What about Rails, What about Rails

etc

but in all seriousness good points Jared.

oh yeah, Shopify isn't also ultimately controlled by a single individual /s. Try Solidus for something controlled by a community!

It always makes me so sad to see companies like this where the founders don't think twice about what they're building and just go straight for the cash grab! Can't we use technology for good and not to build a dystopian surveillance state?

So what are the alternatives?

I have mostly Frame TVs and a projector. I always loved the Roku experience, it really felt like the best media player software, they just kept improving it, and having all TVs on the ecosystem made it even better. One app for virtual remotes, bluetooth listening, searching with your phone keyboard, etc.

I don't want to go back to the Frame's software. I really like the Backdrops app and so many other features.

But it just seems like this acquisition can only accelerate the ensh*tification of Roku. They already changed the default home screen a few weeks ago to show recommendations, SO MANY ads, etc and you change it in settings.

But as other commentors have mentioned, now we'll probably have Fox News and Truth Social front and center whether we want it or not.

So many apps have DRM that prevent you from running it yourself in any way. Is there another way that lets you run Netflix, Paramount+, HBO, all the majors without any trouble that is as integrated as Roku, or at least anything heading in that direction?

My nephew loves this book thank you for putting it into the world!

Can this be used to make hyper-realistic video games, or it's not that real-time yet?

This is so messed up! Hack Club has done and is doing amazing things for teens and young adults who love to build things. Shame on you Salesforce.

The agent terminating its own process was hilarious

Man, I was kind of hoping this was a YCombinator-backed cheese factory. But good luck on the launch!

You can say all you want about NPR or PBS being "left-leaning". But isn't this just a symptom of them telling the truth vs the lies that are spouted out of this administration every single day? If you report the truth now, I guess you're "left-leaning" or "biased" vs reporting whatever the admin says as fact with no comment or fact checking.

NPR and PBS fact check their reporting and have real journalists. Fox News lies all of the time on the air and has media personalities as hosts. Yes, of course, there's no absolutes and some hosts or shows are more biased than others, and people make mistakes. Hosts show their biases unconsciously sometimes too. If your host lives in New York for instance, their views are shaped by that, vs if they live in Kentucky.

But this politicization of National Public Radio and the Public Broadcasting Service is ridiculous and just shows how much this administration is trying to get us into a post-truth world. Facts matter!

Don't succumb to this Culture of Fear.

Aw yes Dokku is still great in 2025! Hear hear!

Interesting takes. I got a sort of "Yom Kippur Vidui" vibe from this if anyone else in the tribe is reading haha.

Read responsively

"We are destroying software by no longer taking complexity into account when adding features or optimizing some dimension.

And we are destroying software with complex build systems.

We are destroying software with an absurd chain of dependencies, making everything bloated and fragile.

And we are destroying software telling new programmers: “Don’t reinvent the wheel!”. But, reinventing the wheel is how you learn how things work, and is the first step to make new, different wheels."

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Fair point. I'm mostly just making a reference to the Lonely Island + Seth Meyers podcast. Every few episodes they joke about being in "an Golden Era" of SNL :). But they also do point out that people tend to idolize the folks from the era they grew up in for sure as well!

Sorry, I guess I meant "sketch comedy". But a lot of it is written the week before/of the show. So what I meant to say was something like "it's all pretty off the cuff" vs a movie or other show I guess, and that unpolished quality is what makes some things super funny to me or just not hit at all. Again, feels hit or miss.

Lorne is great and the heart of the show. I also think The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers were part of an Golden Era, for the record.

This is improv comedy, it's hit or miss sometimes. Things you don't find funny other people might find hilarious :)

Just wanted to acknowledge the humanity of antirez. To many of us, they're a folk hero, but they're just a normal human being with a family who wants good things for the world and their family.

Thanks for opening up to us so much and for what you've contributed to the world antirez! And welcome back!

I did that, that's what led me here. They said "I used Ashby's email finder."

This is to a personal email addresses. Yeah, I agree, I think they would at least have to give me a list of the 3rd parties? But I am in the US :(

Interesting...the name of this makes it sound like criminals will be using it to transfer cash around the world, like with gift cards?

Genuinely I'm curious, is there really a big market around gifting crypto, or is that market just sort of a front for criminal activity like why some retailers see a spike in gift card sales?

What a cool thing! They're so brave to form a union and strike in the first place, nobody does that, I have mad respect for these workers. Then they go and build some cool sh*t while they wait? Heck yeah!

If you're reading this, I'm rooting for ya'll :)

Wow, what a negative, pessimistic comment. It just makes me sad to read.

Here you have a bunch of software engineers doing something none of us were brave enough to do, forming a union, fighting for their rights, striking when they're being ignored.

Then they have a hackathon to build a few things in a few days, symbolizing the power of software! Look at all the cool stuff they made in just that time.

How else would you have wanted it to go?

I don't get it. Why is Starlink paying for X's problems? Aren't the two separate corporate entities?

We are, but that hasn't seem to have made a difference...

Awesome idea, go team Homebrew!

Someone call Behnke to file it

How about the other 10K+ people who did the actual work to make this happen? Or is it all about that one guy? :)

Awesome blog post! But is it necessary to link to the tweet that links to the blog post?

Omg. This is really impressive stuff!

I'm sure it's a bit cherry-picked and they chose things it is good at. But it is already showing some useful stuff.

Clearly you've never read animorphs...