I've had "mouseless" on every system since getting a keyboard that supports it (in my case the Ultimate Hacking Keyboard). It's changed my compute experience and I can never go back (so I hope they don't go out of business)

Well said, I have the same instinct but couldn't quite articulate why until reading your comment. You said it well.

In life I find the key to understanding people/behavior (as much as is possible) is to look at the incentives*, motivation, what's driving them. It's rarely simple, usually multi-variable calculus, but you can predict reasonably better than a random guess by trying to understand motivations/incentives. Anthropic is split between the financial incentive and the zealotry, and it sure shows (wonder why Anthropic is doing this right after their IPO push?? Makes more sense given the incentives. Money + zealotry)

*Of course you don't want to anthropomorphize corporations too much, but they still respond heavily to incentives so it does carry over there, plus at least for now they're still run by humans making decisions (except for the Lawn Mower who runs Oracle of course)

But you can tell it to once (in CLAUDE.md for example) and it will nearly every time (it's getting much better at that). Since opus 4.7 (which I consider a downgrade overall) it's been much better at following CLAUDE.md . I even have an intentional contradiction in my user-level CLAUDE.md and the project levels, so I can tell which one is taking precedent or if both are disregarded, and it follows at least one of them most of the time, and it follows the local one 95% of the time.

> It's not like you can't tell your wife apart from your orthodontist.

I got a personal kick out of that example, because one of my good friend's wife is his orthodontist :-D

"open wide..."

Thanks for the example. I'm skeptical of the claims that "nothing will change" but want to believe them, and examples are the only real data to go on (feels/vibes aren't data), so thank you.

Original blog post of the acquisition of BastionZero: https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-acquires-bastionzero/

You might at least try to engage in good faith, or fake it enough to pass benefit of the doubt. I don't like the impact Cloudflare has had on the open internet, but GP was presenting their view, and you clearly misrepresented it.

> Before saying anything else, we want to make the most important thing clear: Vite, Vitest, Rolldown, Oxc, and Vite+ will stay open source, vendor-agnostic, and community-driven. Nothing about that changes.

Appreciate them putting that so clearly. I am highly skeptical of acquisitions now because we've been burned so many times in the past. Time will tell if this stays true, but at least it's clearly on the record. Would love to know if this is in contract/writing somewhere as part of the acquisition.

>Would love to know if this is in contract/writing somewhere as part of the acquisition.

Cloudflare would be insane to allow that provision in the contract or acquisition documents.

So I would take that promise as "will stay open source, blah blah blah, for now...."

Dropbox did it for Zulip.

It entirely depends on how much the seller cared to ensure continuity. It’s not like VoidZero didn’t have plenty of leverage; they weren’t a dying open source project.

Dropbox spun out Zulip because it was a failed project they were going to shut down.

This is completely different?

Dropbox never had any intention of running Zulip. But the team wanted Zulip to continue existing, so they worked that into the agreement with Dropbox.

That is my understanding.

What would they benefit from taking it closed source? And how would that even work for a JavaScript toolchain?

It's natural to be sceptical. They're investing a huge amount of money and claiming that nothing will change. I.e.: that they seek nothing in return.

Not really. The claim is that nothing will change regarding the OSS projects.

For Java you need a JRE and JDK depending on whether you're just running or also building. That they are bundled (for Windows) is slightly convenient, but they're not bundled on Linux so what you're saying is OS dependent

JRE or JDK, not "and". The JDK is a superset of the JRE.

Thank you, appreciate the correction

If you're used to Java, Elixir is like `javac`, Beam is like `java`. Mix is like a (way better) version of Gradle. You need elixir to compile your app, you only need the Beam to run it. Once you've built your project, you don't need Elixir anymore exactly like java/javac. C and rust compile to machine code so don't have a runtime dep, but otherwise they still require you to have a compiler at build time, just like elixir.

Having 128 GB in my desktop, I can never, ever go back. It truly unlocks a whole different computing experience. I've only had one OOM in the last 5 years and it was in my own code where I had a bad memory leak. It's the only way to live