Yeah I think I would have been considered part of the “in” crowd of Perl to some degree and it wasn’t the culture that drove me away and to Python.

It was Django and the people involved with it.

> and the people involved with it.

Culture?

Yeah after the acquisition I’m sure they moved everything to whatever the parent company was using which totally makes sense.

That would have been hard since both of those projects came out after Django, but just an FYI Jinja2 templates are supported and nothing stops you from using SQLAlchemy. Granted you lose a lot of the tight intergration that makes Django great to use.

> That would have been hard since both of those projects came out after Django

Well, yes I didn't mean Django from the start! I mean now.

Hi neighbor! :)

It takes 5 minutes to switch most projects. And less to go back to pip. Seems silly to waste a bunch of wall time when using pip when there is a super easy alternative that doesn't have high switching costs.

Ok but that's really not the cost for a company that's been using tool X for years, accumulated some expertise in that, built their own tooling on top of it etc.

Yes and he’s a really cool nice guy to boot!

I almost want to call this nominative determinism

I always thought it was called godbolt because it's like... Zeus blowing away the layers of compilation with his cosmic power, or something. Like it's a herculean task

Another example: eBay is because its founders solo consulting business "Echo Bay Technology Group" owned ebay.com and so when he built his auction web site on that domain everybody just called the auction site "eBay" anyway.

Have had several clients hit by bad AI robots in the last few months. Sad because it’s easy to honor robots.txt.

The SEC does mandate SLAs and have for years. They’ll pay a hefty fine for this is my understanding

they don't care about fines, they are orders of magnitude less than the opportunity cost.

Now we know how our zero-fee transactions became possible.

I hear what you're saying, but people DO just put stuff out there for it to exist and aren't necessarily looking to monetize it. Crazy I know :)

You don't hear what they're saying.

On HN, and especially regarding "infrastructure" services that you might depend on indefinitely for something, "what's the business model" isn't a question about how the service will be enshittified. Rather, it's a question of what incentive there is to keep a free service like this running. If there isn't one, then nobody should use the service, because it'll very likely get shut down as soon as it gets popular enough for its hosting costs to become nontrivial.

What's your alternative? Nobody wants a corporate solution, but they do want free services that fly under the radar. Of course not all of them last forever, but what better choice is there?

It is crazy for someone to expect someone to use a service that has a 99% chance of getting shut down in a year when the domain name needs to be renewed. If there's no plan, there's no reason to use this for anything, ever.

especially when they’re using it to collect data from people who don’t understand why using something like this is even less secure

I hear what you're virtue signaling, but people DO have a right to wonder what will happen if a link redirect service runs out of money and kills their links

Then it becomes even more secure! Passwordless, serverless, you name it.

Might I suggest looking at django.contrib.auth.