(hi seph, hope all’s well) — i did exactly this with Redwood and showcased it multiple times during Braid meetings. alas, nobody was very interested in trying to push it forward
Ah sorry - I don’t know why redwood slips my mind! Please correct me if I’m wrong but I thought you were using redwood as a git backend, rather than replacing git’s internals with a text crdt?
this is a little too stoic a take with respect to a tool that very unserious people building things for serious but non-technical people use on a daily basis. i think we should strive for more. npm can continue to exist in its very libertarian form, but perhaps there's room for something that cares a bit more about caution
if you've been duped into importing a package which has been broadly deemed as spam (but you're not looped into the public conversation about that fact enough to realize it), wouldn't "breaking the build" be a good way to get you to realize your folly and avoid the trap?
it's language-cultural. to "publish a package" in Go simply means having a public git repository. and yet, nobody who writes Go imports packages. it's well-understood that if you can't write something like leftpad (or many other JS packages) yourself in your own codebase in a few lines, you're an absolute nonce. Javascript developers on the other hand tend to skew towards the juniors in our broader ecosystem, and they seek easy and quick prestige, which leads to "star farming"/"download farming"
... _what_? i don't think you parsed my comment correctly at all
to address the part of your comment that doesn't make my head spin: only very occasionally do i see senior Go developers import 3rd party libraries. i'm just speaking from my experience
i've built tons of very intricate payments systems over the past 10 years and i honestly have no idea how "payments engineer" is even worthy of a distinct job title. it's a thing people do in the course of building products. ridiculous
grapevine knowledge, but i have been told (and credibly, i think, given how adaptive humans are, and how they adapt for very specific parameters while devaluing others) that many homeless will go to great lengths to seek out new locales that seem willing to help sustain their needs without requiring wholesale change of their lifestyles. some people do indeed prefer it (or at least fear the alternative, i.e. “proper” integration into society and all that comes with that), as much as some people on this website cannot fathom that
while important, the fiat currency is a second-order issue, imho. the root is self-serving corruption facilitated by an intricate apparatus based on bureaucratic capture. to even appear as a choice on the ballot, one must either be part and parcel of this widespread corruption, or one must take the system by surprise with vast amounts of money and bluster (trump trump something something, fat lot of good that did, though). one of the biggest issues we have is that so much “shadow money” is allowed to influence politics. if the government was originally supposed to be a “check and balance” against accumulation of corporate power against regular people, phenomena like Citizens United et al have guaranteed the undoing of that guardianship. it is a society of grift now, through and through. and of course, being adaptive creatures, we learn from example, and we learn from our enemies, so anyone who once played the “good guy” role is stooping as low as his opponent now. surveying the political landscape, it’s often hard to find anyone spending more time trying to solve problems as opposed to maximizing instagram likes and chances for reelection
NB: there’s that whole discourse about “how are you all multi-millionaires when the pay for senator/representative is at most a few hundred thousand a year?”
