This article is already old news for me and largely irrelevant as i don’t use much in the way of rando js modules, random packages, etc. However the subject is interesting due to the conversations that has spawned:

• It’s not fun anymore
• Open Source Is Not About You
• If it’s not fun anymore, you get nothing from maintaining a popular package
• I don’t know what to say - a more commented reddit discussion Etc.

As always, the hell is in the comments from these posts but mostly this boils down to a couple of things for me:

got nostalgic for the commodore 64 and wrote a javascript/html variation of 10 Print.

it can be found on my github here

while the original code is this:

10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 1

the javascript version is also one line but demanded some css, etc to make it look decent in the browser. also, microsoft edge kills it completely. both of these things bother me but i’m not sure why. maybe the simplicity of the console versus the formatting hell that is the window? longing for a simpler age? getting crushed by nostalgia for something that never truly existed?

• a computer is a tool, not a way of life.
• operating systems are technology’s corn mothers.
• platform lock-in is equal to being under arrest - you aren’t free to leave.
• (borrowed) the cloud is just another person’s computer
• silos are for grain not data
• the desktop website and mobile site are mirrors of the record album and cd.

i find a hypnotic peacefulness in the blinking of a cursor.

which, i believe, is why my mind draws a blank when it comes time to put something down in the old text processor.

but even now, i resumed writing this (from the above)

because i’m in awe of the fact that we, contemporary people, settle in to no permanent home online. but instead choose to scatter versions of ourselves around indiscriminately.

a mere trifle about generative processes, automation, etc. etc. etc.