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Regular reminder that Bluesky is a VC-funded company which inevitably is headed for the same fate shared by all VC-funded companies. It must maintain hypergrowth until it either: - folds Maybe tuning into another re-run of the social media VC show is appealing to some, but it certainly isn’t for me. (I don't know if I came up with this, or I'm remembering someone else writing this a while back. But either way I'm sitting here giggling at this)
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To the surprise of nobody whose worked on any collaborative projects at scale — people with toxic styles of engagement burn out the people actually doing the work and negatively affect the entire project. This paper is specifically about Wikipedia, but like no shot this doesn’t apply to open source as well: https://academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/article/2/12/pgad385/7457939
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 @yosh will attest that it occurs frequently in my experience in volunteer organizations of all kinds. I surprised someone again yesterday by saying that I legitimately don’t think technical issues are the hard part of shipping projects. I find the constraints are almost always about how to navigate conflicting points of view, deadlines, organization, planning, and budgets. People, planning, and money are the hardest topics. The technical parts seem far less difficult -sometimes even trivial- in comparison.
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@yosh Agreed. I start every client relationship by explaining that every engineering problem is actually a people problem. Holy shit, Rustc (via Ferrocene) being ASIL-D certified is a huge deal! That’s the highest level of verification for automotive applications, which enables it to be used in stuff like braking, steering, and other critical vehicle systems. I had absolutely no idea what any of the standards were about. But now that I understand what they are, that seems huge! Amazing work by @ferrous! Here’s an explainer of what ASIL-D certification entails: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automotive_Safety_Integrity_Level Yay, new Polonius blog post just dropped: https://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2023/09/22/polonius-part-1/
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Writing actual code again for the first time in what feels like… weeks? Months? I honestly don’t know anymore lol. On the brighter side: maybe I’ll soon have shaved enough yaks that I can continue building out my personal website. Current yak shave: parse the various HTML specs and create a semantically meaningful representation of it in Rust. Aka step 1 of:  @yosh I love this :) I'm gonna be super interested in what you're doing here! I've been thinking for a long time that the web needs this sort of thing and I am extremely stoked that you're poking away at it @yosh imo #astrodotbuild w/ types gets you part of the way there, though obviously w/o various #a11y or other linters you're not going to get *validity* tested What if… [uncomfortable looks] … certain problems are systemic… [a member of the audience lets out an audible gasp] … and require systemic solutions. [shock, horror, people frothing with rage] New post: Rust 2023 I took some time to share my thoughts on Rust in 2023; what we're working on, what I think is important, and how I'm thinking about the project. @yosh some really interesting thoughts on automation and a great example with cargo-semver-checks! @yosh this post is great, thank you for sharing! I'm especially enthused by the way you talk about continuing to be ambitious - I completely agree and I think there is so much more interesting space to cover! |
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Headline: “Wow, Bluesky managed to get $8 million in funding”
What you should be reading:
“Bluesky took on an additional $8 million in debt, which they will need to be pay back with interest one way or another”
How are they going to be doing that, you wonder? Well reader, certainly not just by selling domain names at a slight markup.