It's not perfect. It's late sometimes, pollution sucks, and often crowded - but people here who like to criticise it really don't recognise how much better they have it than lots of other places.

Same with travel from here to Europe (by train), is just awesome.

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I wonder if we're at the point where the cost of building and maintaining this yourselves (assisted with an AI Copilot) is now more effective than an off-the-shelf?

It feels like there's a LOT of moving parts here, but also it's deeply tailored to their own setup.

FWIW - I tried pointing Claude at the post and asking it to design an implementation, (like the post said to do) and it struggled - but perhaps I prompted it wrong.

Surprised they need both.

Fairly limited specs available so far, but more are coming, including a developer edition - which ships with Ubuntu 24.10.

Current configs are limited to 32GB of RAM, which is a little low, but hopefully that will increase with future iterations.

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> “It’s never about replacing craft, it’s about expanding the toolbox. The vision, the taste, the leadership … that will always be human,” she said.

> “And here’s the part people don’t see: the hours that went into this job far exceeded a traditional shoot. Ten people, five weeks, full-time.”

That response sounds like it was written by ChatGPT, which is a fantastic piece of tone-deaf irony from the creators.

It's an MIT license. That IS open source.

If they have a commercial strategy - that's a GoodThing. It means they have a viable strategy for staying in business, and keeping the project maintained.

MIT == OpenSource. Pricing == Sustainable. That's a horse worth backing IMO.

Content under backend/ee requires a license, everything else is MIT Expat. Pretty standard stuff.

> Can you call it open source if you need a subscription license to run / edit the code?

MIT is open source, their other stuff isn't. Pretty clear.

I've finished up there now, so this is purely retrospective.

For them - the workaround (sadly) was -- a lack of testing.

I was really surprised that in a heavily regulated environment (this project faced off to a regulator) Integration testing (which has gotten really easy on the JVM thanks to stuff like TestContainers) just didn't exist.

That could be symptom of a broader lack of a test-driven culture though.

The onshore team were able to use Docker, but not offshore.

The offshore team had to access everything via virtual desktops, and one of the restrictions was no virtualisation within the virtual desktop - so tooling like Docker was banned.

I was really surprsied to see modern JVM development going on, without access to things like TestContainers, LocalStack, or Docker at all.

To compound matters, they had a single shared dev env, (for cost reasons), so the team were constantly breaking each others stuff.

How common is this? Also, curious what kinds of workarounds people are using?

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My personal biases are pretty strongly in favour of the BBC, but what they did here was really bad. It's appropriate that heads roll. I wish more orgs would have the same level of accountability.

However, the "Privacy First" and "No Ads" claim gets eroded pretty quickly by cookies, and requests to trackers like n.clarity.ms, google-analytics and adtrafficquality.google.

Note - I don't actually have an issue with any of those things - if you wanna monetize this service through analytics and ads, that's up to you. But it's at odds with your privacy first claims.

They definitely could've communicated this better.

https://github.com/minio/minio/issues/21647

OSS, MDX, beatuiful-by-default.