steve o’grady
@sogrady.org
helped found redmonk. if you see someone at a tech conference wearing a Red Sox hat, that's probably me. otherwise found in the great state of Maine. wrote the new kingmakers and the software paradox. married to @girltuesday.org. eph.
this didn't seem promising:
"He can’t throw well enough to catch (if you’re gonna put a 20 on a catcher’s arm, it’s his)"
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"He can’t throw well enough to catch (if you’re gonna put a 20 on a catcher’s arm, it’s his)"
blogs.fangraphs.com/minnesota-tw...
Minnesota Twins Top 43 Prospects
Depth and talent at the top make this system a shade above league average despite Minnesota being one of the more injury-riddled organizations in baseball.
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January 21, 2026 at 5:04 PM
this didn't seem promising:
"He can’t throw well enough to catch (if you’re gonna put a 20 on a catcher’s arm, it’s his)"
blogs.fangraphs.com/minnesota-tw...
"He can’t throw well enough to catch (if you’re gonna put a 20 on a catcher’s arm, it’s his)"
blogs.fangraphs.com/minnesota-tw...
i don't argue the initial assertion, but i'm also not someone who believes that introducing ethics into open source licenses is a tractable problem - much as i might personally hope otherwise
January 20, 2026 at 3:40 AM
i don't argue the initial assertion, but i'm also not someone who believes that introducing ethics into open source licenses is a tractable problem - much as i might personally hope otherwise
i don't disagree, but i think the context is materially different.
a decade ago there were, IMO, a lot more people motivated to advance and protect open source because the absence of it was in memory. now, i look around at events like the OSS Summit and there's a lot of hair the same color as mine.
a decade ago there were, IMO, a lot more people motivated to advance and protect open source because the absence of it was in memory. now, i look around at events like the OSS Summit and there's a lot of hair the same color as mine.
January 20, 2026 at 3:30 AM
i don't disagree, but i think the context is materially different.
a decade ago there were, IMO, a lot more people motivated to advance and protect open source because the absence of it was in memory. now, i look around at events like the OSS Summit and there's a lot of hair the same color as mine.
a decade ago there were, IMO, a lot more people motivated to advance and protect open source because the absence of it was in memory. now, i look around at events like the OSS Summit and there's a lot of hair the same color as mine.
nothing in particular, just me venting with my common, perennial frustration.
i do think the road ahead is rockier than you, however, given that the success of open source has trained a generation of developers to not care about how open source succeeded or why, and why definitions matter.
i do think the road ahead is rockier than you, however, given that the success of open source has trained a generation of developers to not care about how open source succeeded or why, and why definitions matter.
January 20, 2026 at 3:07 AM
nothing in particular, just me venting with my common, perennial frustration.
i do think the road ahead is rockier than you, however, given that the success of open source has trained a generation of developers to not care about how open source succeeded or why, and why definitions matter.
i do think the road ahead is rockier than you, however, given that the success of open source has trained a generation of developers to not care about how open source succeeded or why, and why definitions matter.
...which is why it is so infuriating that the industry is sleep-walking towards a non-binary future in which open source sometimes means open source but sometimes something else entirely and also worse
January 20, 2026 at 2:11 AM
...which is why it is so infuriating that the industry is sleep-walking towards a non-binary future in which open source sometimes means open source but sometimes something else entirely and also worse
as does our Governor
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Governor Janet Mills releases video on potential federal law enforcement operations in Maine
YouTube video by Maine Public
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January 15, 2026 at 2:42 PM
as does our Governor
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i read this as mike timlin and was a little confused
January 14, 2026 at 3:41 PM
i read this as mike timlin and was a little confused