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Just a glimpse: > London is no longer the city I was infatuated with in the late '90s and early 2000s. Chiefly because it's no longer full of native Brits [1] [1] https://world.hey.com/dhh/as-i-remember-london-e7d38e64
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In a word, yes.
What I don’t get is, what does Shopify get from this? I’m assuming there’s a ton of reputational risk in this move, and my understanding as an outsider is that Shopify already has a ton of weight in the Ruby ecosystem - they seem to be the one case quoted by everyone as the “proof that Ruby scales”.
I’ve always acted as a community-oriented person, so I feel it’s my duty to share what really happened, what the current state is, and why Ruby Central has failed in the eyes of the community. This is my perspective — and why I’m leaving Ruby Central by choice, but am being forced out of Bundler, RubyGems, and RubyGems.org.
fwiw... rubygems.org was one of the only open source projects I contributed to on a regular basis (albeit once every year or two) and it was always a positive experience. Sorry its gone this way for you and others. This all reminds me of the feelings after Merb was put down after pressure from Engine Yard so they could guard against their Ruby on Rails hosting business.
Imagine if someone did the same for Rust. I could not count all new crab languages.
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There are arguably larger reputational risk issues in a company with significant financial/payment activities not having adequate control of their technology. I'm not saying that justifies anything here as I don't know nearly enough about, but I'd wager that even a minor incident arising from them not adequately controlling their stack would create infinitely more issues than this move.
If supply chain integrity is the issue specifically for Shopify, couldn’t they run their own private, internally facing gem repository and whitelist everything that goes there? It’s not a requirement to use the public rubygems.
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0. https://www.platformer.news/-what-really-happened-at-basecam...
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In a word, yes.
What I don’t get is, what does Shopify get from this? I’m assuming there’s a ton of reputational risk in this move, and my understanding as an outsider is that Shopify already has a ton of weight in the Ruby ecosystem - they seem to be the one case quoted by everyone as the “proof that Ruby scales”.
The solution is to design package managers around the uniform resource identifier: a way to locate online assets that is mostly (ignoring DNS) decentralised and better than having one org own all the packages.
Would it be compatible with specifying urls (such as git repos)?
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> indirectly say that the person who wrote the piece is a bad writer or a good writer. A lot of the so-called tells are things that are more likely to be done by professional writers under the care of a professional editor. For example, many people assume the presence of an em dash means text was written by an LLM, when obviously LLMs did not invent punctuation marks.
Good writers who used em dashes before AI tend to use them the traditional way—with no space around them and to emphasize a parenthetical. AI uses it with spaces around it — as an all-purpose conjunction.