I have a friend who works there, he's got some interesting stories

as a result stuff like observability & monitoring, as in your post, didn't get done because the person writing the check would cut or argue that stuff out of the estimate before approving it because "it doesn't directly impact functionality"

happens in manufacturing, utility, and medical industries too, in my exp. basically any non-software industry buckets the in house dev team as a cost center. at one place we literally billed other departments for our time spent on their systems, estimates were always negotiations, etc.

I see what you mean, not the same network in a practical sense even if it is in a protocol sense.

My prediction is per-community or per-app relays will become more common and individual appviews/apis will have to listen to more than one to get the full network, if they want it

Ye the above info is out of date, blacksky has been running its own relay for a while. I remember seeing the celebratory posts a few months ago. bsky.app/profile/rude...

A lot of video-game publishers spend hundreds of millions of dollars chasing after "realistic graphics" and "massive open-worlds" when what players really want is just a shitload of weird little guys

yes to both imo

no

More than once I've sent a .txt file attachment, then try to open it from the sent email, and get a "this file does not exist or is corrupted" type of error for an hour or three.

Swap back to old outlook, open the attachment with no issue.

Blue sky cannot decide things like geoblocking for all of ATproto, so I don't understand how you can say the original statement is true.

omw I just need to set up this bicep language server

I explained this thread to my non-technical textile-nerd partner and she's very proud of everyone involved

loom, weave, quilt