benburton

As a casual both Bun and Deno user, I have generally preferred Bun to Deno unless sandboxing is a concern.

I'm not quite sure I've seen a runtime, JavaScript or otherwise, that has the same network-level gating that deno enforces. Making an allowlist of addresses the default seems like it needs to be table stakes in the agentic era.

Oh. That's kind of disappointing.

Today New Zealand has lost a national treasure.

Haere atu rā ki te okiokinga.

This proposed economic model creates a dystopian situation: whoever has the most capital has the right of first refusal to consume art.

Current primary and secondary ticketing markets are not ideal, but this proposition disenfranchises whole market segments from consuming art as experience based on economic factors. That's bad for art, it's bad for artists, and it's bad for consumers.

I love writing documentation, and I love teaching people how to solve problems. At my day job I've written a lot of the organization's most trafficked explanations and how-to guides for understanding our codebase and engineering principles.

The other week an engineer in another group fed all of my documents, and all of our codebase, into an LLM. They were able to ask it questions, and get immediate answers that were by and large better than the guidance I would have been able to provide in between my other responsibilities.

As much as I love writing and explaining, I think we're sadly past the point that it needs to be done by humans. I have always considered documentation to be an imperfect, point in time, reflection of a codebase. When an LLM can read and synthesize all of code and immediately respond with up to date information... what's the point in writing documentation anymore?

My first thought too. Glad there are other indie rock folks poking around!

As someone who works in the music industry, this Snoop Dogg streaming thing is an obvious straw man. I genuinely hope people stop using it as evidence of, well, anything.

For that low of a payout on 1 billion streams, you'd have to (as you said) have a lot of people on your split sheet so your royalty percentage is very low or have a terrible deal on percentage with your label, distributor, or both.

Snoop Dogg isn't living off Bic lighter endorsements. He definitely makes a lot of money on music.

FlexPats?

Unrelated to the content of this post... this looks to be hosted on Notion. Is that a reasonable option for a personal blog? I do a lot of writing in Notion for work and I would love to transition into something more public. I don't really want to mess around with Jekyll, Medium, or Substack. Public Notion feels sort of compelling.

Thank you. I thought I was going crazy.

I struggled with linear algebra in college, in part because my professor had a tenuous grasp of the English language. Strang's book was our textbook, and I did a bit of digging and found the OCW lectures. I stopped going to class, and instead would spend the time at the library to watch Strang's lectures and take notes.

I was one of the very few students to ace the class, and I will be forever grateful.

I never met Bob Lee, but I was a huge fan. Google Guice was exceptionally useful for non-Spring-based dependency injection in the early 00s. I don't know if Bob had his hands in the Google Collections API, but that in combination with Guice really made Java engineering in the JDK 6 days much more bearable.

What a devastating, senseless tragedy.

What's your proposal to enforce restrictions against this behavior?

You wrote an entire sentence that has literally nothing to do with the ticket resale market and how scalping is related.

A secondary ticketing market enables scalping. There are legitimate reasons for the resale market to exist. If you think that the existence and dynamics of a resale market are unrelated to scalping... I would encourage you to look into critical reasoning courses which are perhaps available at your local community college at a low cost.

How do you propose we eliminate scalping, while preserving the secondary market? Go ahead, I'm waiting. Literally all ticketing companies are waiting for your profound insight.