Notices by Anil Dash (anildash@me.dm)

This is very sweet… this young guy wanted to get Windows XP running on the first Apple TV hardware, which had never been done before. So… he taught himself to code. https://youtu.be/YkjrEXtZoWM

@MisterWanko @njvack lol gatekeepers never win

@njvack @MisterWanko and we're all still beginnners, most of the time

~~~ everybody with a node_modules directory is a vibes coder ~~~

Okay, I know everybody wants to dunk on the vibes coders, ("help, I got hacked!") but... what if we have empathy for them, instead? What if *nobody* really knows what all the code in their stack does? I thought a little bit about what #hugops for vibes coders would look like, and how we build security and reliability for the inevitable new wave of coders who are going to use AI to help them build apps. https://www.fastly.com/blog/hugops-for-vibe-coders

February 2025 stats!

Service requests submitted: 2232
- Police action not necessary: 1829 (82%)
- Fixed the condition: 307 (14%)
- No evidence: 57 (3%)
- Gone: 9 (0%)
- Issued a summons: 27 (1%)

Avg response time: 58 mins
Median response time: 25 mins

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@leedo @sstephenson and are working on making it a lot easier :)

@sstephenson @mattly you could probably use the free tier of Glitch and the free tier of Fastly and get there. We do appreciate the folks who pay the eight bucks, though!

@jwz Lol damn it now I have to correct my score for it having been split over two domains over the last 25 years so that I can verify that I’ve been OMG CENSORED as well and begin my pivot to crying about cancel culture and wait for the big bucks to roll in

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@sayrer I dunno, 9 simultaneous takes of full-res broadcast footage? With Dolby mix down soundtrack? It’s wild that they’re not even using a base-level Studio to do it.

@anna @mhoye yeah, this is well put. I’ve had people tell me this in a very personal way, and that’s the thing I can’t let go of

Wait, does this show the Severance editing happening on a Mac _mini_? https://youtu.be/TXNQ01Sy6Xw Like, not a Studio?

@nelson oh this is interesting, let me check it out! I’ve been meaning to write about this solo broadly, because I do think a lot of the hagiography of it is essentially just rockist/white gaze reading of his work, but I’m open to being wrong.

@mhoye I still do “coffees” (I don’t drink coffee) with early-career folks for this exact reason, when I could certainly do a zoom instead many times. There are often things they do not or cannot have on a wiki or in a Google Meet/Zoom, or where they rely on an intermediary to facilitate the intro in person — those are real aspects of community. We need to find ways to accommodate that reality.

@mhoye I get the broad social and political point you’re making, but I’m going to disagree with some of the specifics. I have people who have told me that the unscheduled space around structured parts of events was the only place that they, as marginalized people in the industry, could find access to talk to people who could open doors for them. Digital spaces require making things explicit & documented in a way that can exacerbate vulnerability. That’s a real thing.

@carlmalamud I bid $900 million!

Whether you're a small restaurant or not you have to ensure that you're not stealing your ingredients. So why is this any different?

What about the 1-2 person creative startups? Who is protecting their works in a society that devalues artists so much that "starving artist" is an expectation?

@Klassika @julien68 I do work at Fastly, though I am just one of many. But i will say it is unfathomable that people use a platform that surveils passwords without consent.