Notices by Anil Dash (anildash@me.dm)

There’s a credible case that the funkiest song Prince ever recorded was the 10-minute-long, “The Exodus Has Begun”, a tribute to P-funk, Bebe’s kids, the evils of the music industry, vocal distortion, spaceships, and vinyl records: https://youtu.be/vDub5pjG8Xw

@oisin my old show was usually in the top 5 or 10.

(My old show was here: https://open.spotify.com/show/61FfAOZJBJQbP7vfLoTuYB or https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/function-with-anil-dash/id1439658455 )

@caseyliss happy to say it! And grateful a thoughtful show has a big platform.

@jeff @atpfm yep, they do a good show

@jwz I’m trying to explain to the youngs that nothing could be less cool than a banker who cuts checks to arms dealers. Listening to the ramblings of one? Oh buddy.

I took a look at the top “tech” podcasts and holy SHIT all but, like… 2? of them are just straight up fascist propaganda by VC firms promoting their defense investments or lifestyle scams from right-wing bros? Obviously we don’t need any more podcasts, but it made me think I should bring mine back.

I know this is silly, but bringing some of my older pieces online, this one made me happy: Years ago, Prince invited me to his house in LA to preview his new album — and I couldn't go. So I asked for a Purple Raincheck. And I ended up with an even more amazing story. https://www.anildash.com//2016/05/12/the-purple-raincheck/

@jemal thanks! Fixed.

Okay, it's finally time: Dolly, we need you to record the long-lost song that Prince recorded for you almost 40 years ago. https://www.anildash.com//2025/04/10/dolly-prince-rescue-me/

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

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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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