I empathize with this.
What helped me turn a corner: I focus on the things I've gained:
I rarely get stuck anymore.
I don't have to type tricky syntax.
I can improve UX faster than ever.
I can easily automate tedious tasks.
I don't have to manually look things up.
I have a new "pairing" partner that's always available.
I can implement and compare multiple options quickly.
I can try big ideas that were previously out of reach.
I can use the best tool for the job instead of the one I know best.
@paulg@wholemars It will revolutionize short trip flights and trains.
Better if people prefer(which I think so) to travel alone or one or two people they know than a lot of unfamiliar people.
@SpawnYaardReply Flying cost a lot of stamina at launch and then please asked for more due to it being a lot more fun flying for longer. It was in like the first or second patch
Today I realised that most people in this industry do not know to read including some notable rich native English people. Shocker.
Vitalik is not a poor writer, you are a poor reader because you hate ethereum. A bias already exists.
Let's break it down 👇
> We called L2s as "scaled-ethereum" which was Ethereum's original vision. We were wrong. They are different or much more.
> They are for customized solutions, some decentralised, some partially centralised, all use $eth as money/leading asset.
> They are for specialisation,
> some are for privacy like Aztec,
> some are for HFT like lighter,
> some are for giga scaling like megaeth
> some are for trade control, like polymarket L2.
> some are for corporate controls !
> Many are appchains.
> We will scale the L1 incredibly to 10k TPS.
> L2s will always exist for specialised needs. You can't build lighter L2 on Eth L1. $eth is money beyond just ONE chain and that is why it will win.
I would like to call L2s as "tentacles" of ethereum. They make $eth the asset stronger. LFG.
I am bullish about this latest revision. It is not a pivot, it is just a narrative/name change.
The ticker is ETH.
Open source isn't dying because of AI.
It's dying because we all fucking suck.
Users. Maintainers. The whole ecosystem. All of us.
We fucking suck as users.
We use OSS to do our jobs. To build products. To make money. Our employers depend on it. Our startups run on it.
But the second a maintainer mentions compensation? We lose our fucking minds. "It should be free." "That's not the open source way."
Meanwhile we're extracting value from someone's unpaid labor every single day.
We file issues like we paid for a support contract. We demand timelines. We get snippy when our bug isn't the priority.
We're not customers. We're guests. Start acting like it.
We fucking suck as maintainers.
We wanted the GitHub stars. The conference talks. The Twitter followers. We wanted to be the person who "owns" that thing everyone depends on.
But now people actually depend on it and we're annoyed.
"Talk is cheap, show me the code."
So someone does. They spend hours on a PR. We ignore it for months. Close it with no explanation. Or we screenshot their issue and mock them publicly for not reading our minds about what we actually wanted.
We invited contributions then punished people for contributing.
We don't want to maintain projects. We want to be admired for maintaining them. Not the same thing.
We suck at this together.
Both sides want the benefits without the responsibilities.
As users we want free, maintained, high quality software but won't contribute a damn thing. Not money. Not code. Not even basic respect.
As maintainers we want the status of running critical infrastructure but won't communicate, won't collaborate, won't treat people like humans.
We all know this shit doesn't work. And yet here we are.
Okay Josh, what do you suggest then?
If we use OSS and profit from it, we contribute something. Anything. Money, docs, triage, kindness. We stop expecting infinite free labor.
If we maintain OSS and we're burnt out, we say so. Archive it. Hand it off. Ghosting is worse than walking away.
And if we can't treat each other with basic respect? We don't get to participate. Full stop.
Open source runs on people. On us.
None of us owe each other a god damn thing. But we could choose to stop being assholes and do better anyway.
🇵🇹Imagens de um país onde o Estado:
- não constrói habitação 🏘️ ❌
- não deixa construir habitação (PDMs e cérceas máximas)🗼❌
- não incentiva a construção de habitação 💸❌
- não constrói infraestrutura de transportes e gosta de MetroBusetas🚅❌
📸Bairro de Lata, Almada, 2025
@levelsio Yeah imagine going from Lisbon to Algarve in 1hour. To Madrid in 2 hours and so on. Europe would feel smaller with more and more speed trains. But I guess autonomous car will improve this feeling as well.
Tiago Cacais é o rosto, até agora desconhecido, da vítima mais grave dos tumultos que incendiaram a Grande Lisboa após a morte de Odair Moniz no Bairro do Zambujal, em Alfragide.
Saiba mais aqui: https://t.co/bZSO5sK2Kd
Disney’s “Zootopia” is possibly the best movie I have ever seen about race and racism (yes, really). I think we couldn’t appreciate how smart and nuanced it was when it came out because we hadn’t yet seen the years of woke garbage that would follow.
One really impressive decision “Zootopia” made was not to slot different animals into “oppressor” and “oppressed” categories. Instead, all the animals are trying to live together in a diverse society, they all struggle to overcome stereotypes and they all bear resentments and grievances against various other groups. Nobody is vilified for this.
The predators occupy dominant positions in society but worry about being stereotyped as… well, predators while the prey animals struggle to overcome being seen as meek and docile.
The central plot involves resentful sheep drugging predators to make them go feral, and the lion mayor tries to cover up the fact that predators are attacking people for fear that it will cause a backlash against his group.
The movie’s message is that individuals can sometimes defy stereotypes about their group, but those stereotypes are not without reason or content. We can admire Judy for tenaciously pursuing her dream of becoming a cop, but we can also see why the cops are bears and rhinos rather than bunnies.
Characters both subvert and affirm stereotypes you might have about them. The sloth speaks and moves slowly, but is secretly a street racer who is very fast behind the wheel of a car. Nick the fox is, in many ways, a shifty loner, but he also longs for community.
The ultimate messages are not that differences aren’t real or that innate characteristics are completely devoid of informative content about what kind of person someone is, but merely that people can often defy your expectations about them, and that different kinds of people can all have valuable things to contribute.
It’s actually shocking how much smarter this children’s cartoon about a fox and a bunny is than the various treatises and polemics about race that media personalities and public intellectuals touted over the past decade. You are smarter on this topic for watching this movie than you would be if you read “How to be an Antiracist” or “The New Jim Crow.”