The first time I truly enjoyed web development was when I got the hang of jQuery. Made everything so much simple and usable!

jQuery made a messy ecosystem slightly less fragmented. Combined with CKEditor it effectively tamed a lot of web-developer chaos until nodejs dropped. =3

I doubt this will clear the government/regulatory approvals as it seems clearly monopolistic. But these days anything can happen and I might end up being surprised. Netflix stock seems stable in-spite of this news.

Probably referring to the founder of pipedream

Unmeshed.io is a newer startup in the space - and works like a charm. Temporal seems like more targeting durable executions, but scheduling a different game. It starts with crons but soon you got to deal with holidays, adhoc skips and holds and more especially during maintenance and upgrades.

Unmeshed has all of these, managing holiday calendars etc and makes it super easy. It even has agents for AS400 server commands if that is still a thing you need.

This reminds me of Dwight from the office in the episode where he doesn’t tip the delivery driver and says: I never tip for anything I can do myself. I can deliver this if I want to.

He also notes that he does tip the guy who pulverizes his kidney stones.

I’m not sure there is much risk in vendor lock in. Look at Temporal. If you use the SDK you are probably locked in for life.

Unmeshed - it’s not open source. It’s a new version of Netflix Conductor. Scales really well and has a GitHub actions style agent that can be used to run commands orchestrated by the platform. It’s probably the cheapest commercial tool you can get.

I thought what you are seeing is personalized for you.

It’s sarcasm.

I think Sateeshm was also applying a generous layer of sarcasm.

Could this be a strategy to get access to more code than what is available in just Github? More training data means better models I assume.

I just enabled copilot and I see in the settings this is checked by default

https://github.com/settings/copilot

> - [x] Allow GitHub to use my code snippets from the code editor for product improvements > > Allow GitHub, its affiliates and third parties to use my code snippets to research and improve GitHub Copilot suggestions, related models and product features. More information in About GitHub Copilot privacy.

Should we still be concerned if opting out?

It's been my experience that, with time, opt-outs from SaaS multiply.

People opt out, some PM or whoever decides they need 'metrics' (numbers to spin)... and more categories or qualifications are summarily added. Starting the cycle again.

I assume they'll send a privacy policy update in at most six months. I wouldn't call it concerning. Routine. I won't participate, that's for sure.