(this is the sole tweet i am allowing myself on all of this. kinda wild that this happens when i am busy with my own stuff. oh well.)
okay. i am allowing myself more tweets. ugh. i hate this. but it has to be said
the rails world has *never* come to terms with something that david has said himself for years: rails is his. he gets to do what he wants with it. it is not a democracy. rails is not built for your needs. it's built for david's needs. if it helps you, fine, but he does not care.
he has always been very upfront about this, but folks don't want it to be true, so there's this weird like, way that folks completely delude themselves about it. including me. for years. i don't know why i just didn't take him at his word.
for those of you considering a fork: hello. welcome. you're not the first. that doesn't mean that it's impossible, or wrong, but... you've got a big uphill battle.
i have been out of the rails world for a while. nothing that i've seen over the years causes me to believe that this fundamental tenant of rails governance has changed in any way. so.
many other great people have made serious contributions to rails over the years. and some of them aren't the famous people that you've heard of. some are, they're often great too.
anyway. probably time to stfu about this topic now. i've got too much other shit to do. but in my newfound commitment to not ignore issues, i feel like i've not said this for an extremely long time. feels good to say it.
Listen: I really like and respect most of the folks on this list. I get it, I do. And hey, maybe literally everything has changed in the past eight years. I doubt it though.
Just ask yourselves: if Rails really is truly independent, what was the last major feature that DHH didn’t like that made it in? Where’s the stuff Basecamp doesn’t use? Why does the community replace like half the stack?
it's been an intense week. still gave myself some time last night to put together another news video. still working on so many skills: thumbnail design, sound mixing. structure.
i like this format, but it's tough for me to figure out how to incorporate something important, and that's *narrative*. i think that's something about a lot of the destiny content i watch too; it's all purely informational, which is great. but. how to make it *more*?
also working on trying to ship even if it's not perfect. there's some stuff here i could have made better, but it was 2am. better to ship than to not post. you can only get better by actually doing, and for me, posting is part of doing
"We are finally here, with an RFC that adds support
for Rust to the Linux kernel." lkml.org/lkml/2021/4/14…
reading linus' replies is very interesting. glad his initial concerns can be addressed. namely, that rustc doesn't implicitly allocate, and doesn't require panic-ing for allocation failure
i can't wait to see this when it hits slashdot, lol
Here’s a big idea: don’t give executives huge raises while core metrics are going down year over year. Don’t fire tons of people and blame it on the pandemic. How about them big ideas
Nothing says “I love big new ideas” like shitcanning your entire research division