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pnpm is not the answer to the supply chain/postinstall problem. I moved off pnpm recently, for many reasons. Fortunately npm v12+ disables lifecycle scripts by default.

My version of this is: "This is the kind of mistake that we get to make once. How do we prevent it from happening again."

I usually do want the details, but I also want to communicate my expectations up top and unambiguously.

I started with a UI framework thinking I'd need it but over time I realized that I was using it exclusively for button theming and setting the default font. I was using vanilla CSS and vanilla JavaScript and after removing the framework my package sizes reflect that fact.

My family keeps sending me screenshots of AI generated arguments against building new data centers. Apparently we have too many and they don't understand where the demand is coming from. When I asked how many we'll need over the next 10 years the answer was simple, we'll need to build exactly "Oh, fuck off." data centers in the US over the next 10 years to meet expected demand. We should get on that.

I guess video games are a problem too. And social media. They wrote about it on their Facebook Group. The news one, the one where they repost TikToks of people pointing and nodding at another video where someone in a trucker hat is talking about a conspiracy theory, not the one where they talk about Candy Crush.

I don’t use AI. Nothing about these conversations makes sense.

Define "tech".

If you're talking about programmers working at non-tech companies? Maybe. If you're talking about people excited about technology, then no.

I lived in NYC for a decade. NYC is media and finance. And while I liked the people "in tech" that I met in NYC, the passion for the work just wasn't there enmasse.

Check your blood pressure regularly.

Every time I read about a drug reducing dementia risk or increasing longevity I look it up to see if it lowers blood pressure. Never fails.

Cialis does.

And when Gabe dies? “I trust company” is not convincing.

You could buy, sell, trade, loan, and backup games with the right regulation. Discs are irrelevant.

Sure. Until the first FromSoftware PS6 exclusive is released.

Child, six, seriously considering running away from home after parents refuse to serve dinner on dinosaur plate.

People realize that Steam doesn't use physical media, right? The real issue is the lack of consumer friendly regulation, not the medium.

After a few years of using Typescript, having to use type annotations and import basic language features like `abc` in Python feels like an absolute slog.

I use "War and Peace" for this.