Yes

For me it was a combination of the 🦋s, unashamed Elon propaganda/ lies, and then finally the starter packs. I was a small account, but after a couple of days I think I now have *more* Bluesky followers. It was tempting but it's now genuinely worth my time to pay attention.

She has a strong intuitive sense of the "EW FFS" element of my OSS work

Worth also remembering that a Republican presidential candidate has won the popular vote in the US exactly *once* since 1988. And yet we've somehow had twelve years of Republican presidents, and however many decades of their Supreme Court picks.

That's what we found empirically when I was working on AI chatbots at Microsoft (admittedly "early" AI, pre GPT). People liked when chatbots enabled new functionality - and AI was great for shipping new stuff fast. But for any given functionality it was just not efficient UX.

I agree about most of that, but not chat. Chat is a great stopgap for developers/product teams who haven't figured out the right happy path yet, and want to let their users find it. But once you've found it, UI ("book now" button) beats AI (typing "b-o-o-k-n-o-w") every time.

In terms of OSS contributors, @colinhacks.com made one here: bsky.app/profile/coli...

My wife thought this was cool for about 15 seconds before I told her the npm downloads -> MRR conversion rate

It makes it so much easier to

- add functionality
- upgrade to new major versions
- narrow types to your domain
- switch to another dependency entirely
- apply patches/side effects without them "infecting" the rest of your codebase

What if you are authoring a tool and need to choose the default

We must find a way to make this a flamewar

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