I have an Apple aluminum keyboard in my backpack all the time.

Very nice for note taking during meetings or emailing on train trips.

Or my favorite: writing outdoors.

The stress relief of a plain old Linux terminal should not be underestimated.

Not only for writing, but for shell sessions too.

I love my Raspberry Pi for that.

Been following this for so many years. The previous project lead Michael Pripps (?) was really inspiring.

It is amazing the project keeps going.

The problem with that hub is that it is not being updated.

I guess the founded had trouble coping with the big attention it got and was swamped with submissions.

I am so happy email is not dead.

We need more playing fields and protocols new players can enter with being blocked by a gatekeeper.

One could argue Google and Microsoft are gatekeepes for email and in some sense they are. But at least it’s possible to challenge their power both technically and policy wise. Eventually it will fade.

We see a lot of new users coming from Twilio.

For some reason the LLMs have started recommending us for people looking for a European or Swedish alternative.

Good catch in the noise. Thanks!

With Chris Lattners track record, there is little reason to doubt they actually will open source this.

It’s not Chris Lattner who gets to make the call though. He has investors to the tune of $300 million, and making them happy is the reason it hasn’t been done yet. A lot of people, very reasonably, relieve it’s not possible to satisfy them and also the development community, and when when push comes to shove it’ll be the investors who win because they have the money. So it’s not Chris Lattner’s track record that makes people worried — it’s the track record of investors choosing control over openness, which is a pretty solid record.

how is it in investors self interest to keep a programming language (some thing which no one makes money on today) closed? It also means that library authors can't reason about their code well enough because they don't know the language internals, this also hurts ecosystem growth. Their is no money to be made with a closed language that no body uses. probably modular investors know this.

"We're committed" in official speech means "this thing has absolute lowest priority".

Miguels work on Swift for Godot is really inspiring.

Highly recommend this video for anyone looking for more context:

https://youtu.be/tzt36EGKEZo

We have always been API first rather than SDK first.

Never really thought too much about the security implications but that is of course a benefit too.

Main reasoning for us has been to aim for a really nice HTTP API rather than hide uglyness with an SDK on top.