notabennett

It is not a tirade against overly complex tools, no. It is an argument against individual developers doing the same work over and over again for different apps.

Cloudnative buildpacks are not especially new. Paketo buildpacks came out in 2020. The previous buildpack system predates Docker.

The big ones are car break-ins and bike thefts.

Well, now you've heard of one: I left SF in 2019 and moved back in 2021. Do not regret it. If I have to leave in the future it will be with great sadness.

It is not a lawless hellhole. There is a lot of property crime, but it's not because we don't have enough cops. The weather is very good. Excellent restaurants.

The government is ridiculous.

No

About half the Wikipedia article on Universal Grammar is devoted to arguments against it -- that not only is there no genetic or biological evidence for it, but that there can be no evidence for it, since it's fundamentally unfalsifiable.

"Working code always beats vaporware" is very good advice. I got a lot better at engineering when I realized I could just... stop trying to convince people of things and start shipping instead.

You do have to be working on a long enough timeline. I've seen vaporware beat working code over the scale of a couple of years, when it's the current exec team's pet vaporware, but eventually execs rotate.

It's pretty readable on a desktop, just tap the arrow key.

Yes, and: Patreon is, at its core, a professional services provider for large YouTube artists. That's the segment it's best at supporting and the segment that needs it the most. But its valuation is based on the idea that it's going to capture some percentage of the entire creator economy.

I do think there are some specific details about Patreon's history and leadership that make it unusually bad at running an engineering organization, even for a VC-backed startup. It has some deceptively hard engineering problems and has struggled to attract, retain, and use technical leadership equal to those problems.