markjgsmith

Something is very wrong with open source

All this open source craziness has me thinking about my plans.

Mullenweg is perhaps the most successful open source dev ever and look how many issues he’s having. How would I even stand the tiniest chance in hell developing everything with my fucking ipod touch while everyone else is using AI laptops from the year 3000.

Sometimes "communities" really fucking suck. And that’s not even considering my current living arrangement if it can even be described as that, or my last 10+ years of forced war of attrition led development.

Which isn’t to say that there aren’t people doing good things, but net-net, it isn’t working.

Open source is not just impossible. It’s impossible to the power of impossible. And that’s not even fully describing it. Yet somehow it works for some.

Something is very very wrong in the universe. #

Captivity Notes: Sun 12th Jan 2025

09:34 am:

• Nothing particularly noteworthy this morning. An officier entered the room a few times earlier to open and close a few drawers. No breakfast as of yet.

10:41:

• An person in the main room wearing a black tshirt, I think it was the officer that initially brought me here, shouted 'yah', then walked past the door which has a window in it so I can see through it, and checked it was still locked. Still no food today.

12:25:

• Another person has been locked in here with me.

12:45ish:

• The plain clothes person that locked the other person in here with me just came back to pick him up.

13:20:

• Officer in light green uniform who was a bit of a Dr Dré doppelganger just popped his head in holding a bag with food, and said 'hey, yo!'. I went to the door to take the food from him, and I said 'thank you'.

13:35:

• Several plain officers walking in and out of the room. One of which was the officer that brought me here initially. He is no longer wearing green uniform, just shorts and tshirt. He was holding a mac silver laptop against his chest, said to me that they will take me to the visitors center in a few days, and just to relax until then. His new thing is to randomly say 'very very', yesterday it was 'very very good'.
• One of the other officers said 'learn'. I have no idea what he was talking about.

15:30:

• The bloke that they locked in here with me earlier returns drinking a take away ice coffee. This time they don’t appear to lock him in here.

18:42:

• Coffee bloke offered to buy me a coffee, and perhaps food. I said that food and coffee would be great. He called one of the officers over and I guess must have asked him to get some coffees because a bit later he returned with 2 coffees.
• A while later another older officer came in and they talked for a while. The only thing I understood was 'ban me', which means sandwich. A bit later the older officer returned with some shoping bags with food stuffs. The older officer gave me a food box with rice and meat. I have no idea who the food was from.
• It’s a very bizare situation. Why is a bloke they are also locking in here buying me coffee and maybe food?

Midnightish

• A load shouty bloke just got brought in by loads of officers and escorted into the prison cell.

Just taking notes cause this whole situation has me quite freaked out. No offense to anyone intended. #

John Gruber: "Project Digits is a genuinely innovative idea. And Jensen Huang is a charismatic presenter. He’s good. But one thing that’s very clear to my eyes is that they didn’t rehearse enough. Or more specifically, they didn’t rehearse nearly as much as Apple did when Apple performed live keynotes. Part of Steve Jobs’s on-stage appeal was that he came across as largely winging it, speaking off the cuff from an outline of prepared Keynote slides. But that was an illusion. Jobs rehearsed, rehearsed, rehearsed, and then rehearsed some more. Jobs might have been better than anyone else even if he had just winged it, but he still put in the work of rehearsing long hours to be as good as he could be."

Given that Gruber has been one of the most faithful Apple reporters over the years, really interesting to hear his take on Nvidia’s new Digits project. Some great anecdotes. #