Dude I wanna come, I’ll bring the scotch

It was very depressing, but I think it has a cool message towards the second half. I agree that it’s probably something to read in a single sitting.

Maybe sounds like In The Break by Jack López…?

ah nice. we include the backlog # in our branch name.

you are a pro and I aspire to be you

ah so you are the dev from 2014

I try to support authors by buying on Kindle or a physical copy if I can. That being said, I don’t think there is any way to combat piracy, and I think information is forever going to be free now. So I think the publishing world is going to have to catch up and evolve. Honestly if I were an author I would consider starting a Patreon.

It’s a very long read, but it was fantastic.

Gone With The Wind from the Southern USA.

On the flip side I work with people who have been doing it for 20+ years and are “bad” programmers.

Some spoilers ahead.

It was fantastic, but very long – seems to be a theme for his novels. I find myself thinking about it now even all this time later. It does feel like the whole science vs. anti-science theme kinda got slipped in towards the second half of the novel as a plot device and it felt weird at times tbh, but I did think it was poignant. The big climax with the Apollo 18 mission didn’t hit me as hard as Pope sharing his memory of Claggett with his class afterwards.

I don’t know that we’re watching the internet collapse. I think we are witnessing tech companies respond to growing financial pressure by accelerating their monetization plans, and it’s blowing up in their faces. The result will be the reinvention of the web. I don’t necessarily know if decentralized apps are going to take off, but I do think the internet will shift towards smaller (possibly open source) sites in retaliation.