Robey ☠️ @robey@mastodon.technology

"you can tell the queen is dissing trump because she wore a particular earring representing the ancient lore of arglebargle" -- this all sounds like bullshit to me.

americans love the uk royalty, but they are an intrinsically conservative institution, and trump's existence is one small part of the bill due from their decades of malevolence.

if you don't want to meet with trump, you can be too busy to meet with trump. if you *do* meet with him, you *are* meeting with him.

deeds, not words

I'm not sure why, but my brother and his wife are about to eat a chunk of their 23 year old frozen wedding cake

"I think it’s right that the pendulum is swinging away from centralization and I want to lend my push to the swing. The last decade has been about consolidation and monolithic services, but the coming decade is going to be federated. Federation spreads out costs. It spreads out control. It spreads out policy-making. It hands control of your slice of our language ecosystem to you."

this is so great

https://github.com/ceejbot/economics-of-package-management/blob/master/essay.md

"This probably sounds impossible to you all. You're thinking that npm is entrenched. A few months ago I might have agreed, but then the company set on fire every bit of goodwill it had ever had for no reason anybody can see, all the trust people like me had ever earned it as benevolent stewards. Just poof. Up in flames. They’re so bad at community, and values, and people, it looks intentional. [exasperated gesture]"

"npm does not love you. npm cannot love you. npm Inc is a Delaware corporation founded as a financial instrument intended to turn money into more money for a handful of men.

Now I don't think anybody can stand up in front of you and say "npm loves you" without being yelled at. npm has burned all of its goodwill over the last few months. It didn't have to happen-- it was a choice made by the people who run the company. They made that choice, though, and they doubled-down on it, and here we are."

firefox team: opening a tab in a particular container could be easier...

(ideal would be a key that means "open a new tab and ask me which container to put it in")