I came to Deno because I needed a break from Node/NPM. I don’t agree with all of Node’s decisions (particularly the ES module debacle), but Node/NPM have improved over the years.

A big problem with JSR was no private packages. All your code has to be open source. But JSR is the only way to get constraint solving in Deno, besides using NPM.

As a founder who built all my prototypes and side projects on Deno for two years, I personally think Deno’s execution was just horrible, and avoidably so. Head-scratchingly, bafflingly bad decision-making.

I was the first engineering hire at Meteor (2012-2016), and we made the mistake of thinking we could reinvent the whole app development ecosystem, and make money at it, so I have the benefit of that experience, but it is not really rocket science or some insight that I wouldn’t expect Ryan Dahl and team to have, in the 2020s.

They were stretched thin with too many projects, which they were always neglecting or rewriting, without a solid business case. They coupled together runtime, framework, linting, docs, hosting, and packaging, with almost all of these components being inferior to the usual tools. The package system became an absolute nightmare.

If the goal was to eventually replace Node and NPM with something where TypeScript was first-class, there was better security, etc, they could have done a classic “embrace and extend.”

It comes down to “adding code” that attempts to, or seems to, achieve something.

This author seems to have some kind of attitude about organization in general—anything with people and process, that happens to exist around some project, that might require at least a small commitment to be a part of. Like complaining that a flea market has a form to sign.

The ability for people to functionally collaborate, with some kind of structure, is the key thing that enables building large things together.

Imagine saying existing human languages like English are “inefficient” for LLMs so we need to invent a new language. The whole thing LLMs are good at is producing output that resembles their training data, right?

I’ve worked at orgs that used Postgres in production, but I’ve never been the one responsible for tuning/maintenance. I never knew that Postgres doesn’t merge pages or have a minimum page occupancy. I would have thought it’s not technically a B-tree if it doesn’t.

> Place rich UI elements within tables, lists, or other markdown elements when appropriate.

Wired vs. tired is literally about what’s “cool.” That’s it. It has never been rigorous about anything.

He said he doesn’t have any “first-person” memories. Most people, even if they forget most things they do day-to-day, and don’t have great “indices” of their memories, can think back on certain times where they remember being there, doing a thing, probably with some visuals associated with that, which can be played back. This person said that none of the things they remember that they did, they can remember personally doing, if that makes sense.

For me, I have scattered samples, like once in a while throughout my life, my brain sort of takes a snapshot and forms a memory. I can imagine myself back in each place I lived, for example, or each place I worked, or graduating from college, or walking on the beach.

The Internet has changed a lot over the decades, and it did used to be different, with the differences depending on how many years you go back.