tedchs

> Demand for engagement rings gave thousands of South Africans steady work at De Beers. Now, weak sales and lab-grown stones are taking it away.

So wait, on this Labor Day weekend, it sounds like the WSJ is pro-worker, but only if they're in South Africa?

How many more examples of malware postinstall scripts do we need before Node quits running them by default, without warning?

This is another indicator that "lifecycle" scripts in NPM (or other packaging systems, except perhaps Debian or RPM) are an idea we need to learn to live without. At most, packages should be able to emit a message to the user asking them to invoke a one-liner if a setup action is truly necessary.

As a side benefit, eliminating package scripts will contribute toward reproducibility of Docker and VM images.

I realize this will be a controversial opinion.

How does this compare to Temporal? That seems to be the current baseline for application-oriented workflow engines.

The "buy me a coffee" button at the end is :chefskiss:

I was excited about this idea, but based on the writing patterns and vague stories I'm pretty sure these writeups are mostly AI slop. For example, this is classic ChatGPT phrasing:

> The growth I’d been celebrating wasn’t real growth—it was just a spike of first-time buyers who never came back.

If I'm wrong, and these were actually written by a human, I'd love a chance to stand corrected and apologize.

My favorite section in an RFC is "alternatives considered". I've seen many times that an option that had been initially discarded became the solution after review and discussion. It's also a great way to answer later questions about "why didn't you do X instead".

Just imagine being the designer of this thing and sitting at Thanksgiving dinner with your family. "Oh, tedchs, what've you been up to at work?" "Okay well this is gonna sound odd but we invented a camera for your stool... No, not that stool... Yes, it clips onto the bowl..."

Is this announcement just about the gem and bundler packages themselves? I don't think Ruby core team is taking over the rubygems.org site right?

My question is, why can Google themselves not just provide a dump to archive.org themselves? Having volunteer middlemen doing the work seems like an artificial crisis.

I've used strings of Twinkly lights for a couple seasons now. They can sometimes be found on eBay for cheap. They're easy to set up, whether standalone or by clustering multiple units into one larger virtual canvas. The app has a lot of good looking animated patterns included.

Wow, what a great name!

FYI you can use a universal infrared remote with Apple TV, which might have larger buttons or a more familiar interface. I have mixed feelings myself about the "touchpad" in the apple remote.