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Scott Arbeit

@scottarbeit.bsky.social

Ex-GitHub, Ex-Microsoft, Ex-lots-of-other-things. F#, C#, and all things .NET. Creator of your next version control: https://github.com/scottarbeit/grace. Git Monorepos and how to tame them. Mostly tech and random thoughts. Occasional rants.

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Gil Durán@gilduran.com · 5mo ago

The CEO of Palantir posted a fascist manifesto on X. I pointed out that it was fascist—which resulted in a permanent suspension from X (my second time!). So, when you hear the tweeters complaining that BlueSky is intolerant, remember why many of us came here in the first place.

Gil Duran tweet: TLDR: Fascism in response to Palantir's long fascists screed on X."Your Account is Suspended" Message on X
Gregg Gonsalves@gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 5mo ago

The task of de-Trumpification of science and public health will take a generation and a "Marshall Plan" to rebuild. Without a bold, expansive vision to guide us, there is no coming back. Small-bore, poll-tested versions of the future will not help us. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

We Need to Prepare for the Mammoth Task of De-Trumpification

The damage he and his cronies have wrought could take decades to repair, particularly when it comes to science and public health.

thenation.com

Gil Durán@gilduran.com · 8mo ago

Corrupt tech billionaires are buying power to tilt the world in their favor. Even the co-founder of Y Combinator is saying it. ⬇️ The radical death cult rising from Silicon Valley venture capital is metastasizing rapidly. It's an existential threat to democracy and humanity.

Paul Graham, Y Combinator co-founder, posts: The rational fear of those who dislike economic inequality is that the rich will convert their economic power into political power: that they'll tilt elections, or pay bribes for pardons, or buy up the news media to promote their views. I used to be able to claim that tech billionaires didn't actually do this — that they just wanted to refine their gadgets. But unfortunately in the current administration we've seen all three.
Scott Arbeit@scottarbeit.bsky.social · 8mo ago

About ten days ago, I upgraded my ChatGPT subscription from Plus ($20/month) to Pro ($200/month), which includes virtually unlimited AI + Codex usage. It made me realize that I've been in a scarcity mindset about AI. Having virtually unlimited AI changes everything. If you can afford it, do it.

Scott Arbeit@scottarbeit.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Remember: the question is not "Why does AWS and Azure have outages?" the question is "could you stand up an infrastructure as reliable as theirs by yourself and have fewer outages/year than they do?" For most orgs, the answer is "no". Also, I'm tired of racking servers.

Scott Arbeit@scottarbeit.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Apple makes boring hardware and shitty software. Macs are a cult. In today's episode, Apple marketing tells the brainwashed that what Windows has had for over a decade - facial recognition login - doesn't matter for Macs, because they say so. www.extremetech.com/computing/ma...

Macs Are Still Years Away From Face ID as Touch-Screen Models Draw Closer

Apple's fingerprint sensor remains its fastest and most practical security method for computers.

extremetech.com

Scott Arbeit@scottarbeit.bsky.social · 12mo ago

`Flag shorthand -h has been deprecated, use --help` If you create a CLI and do this, you're an asshole. What's the thought process here? "Well, I know my users want help, so I'm going to make it more difficult for them to get it." 🤦🏻‍♂️

Scott Arbeit@scottarbeit.bsky.social · 12mo ago

I use Bing for my searches (when I'm not using Copilot or ChatGPT), because it's an better search product, i.e. fewer, better, higher-quality results, with way less ads. I just tried Google again for something. God, it's terrible. I can't imagine why you all still use it. And their AI is 🤮.

David Pine@davidpine.dev · last yr.

It's been super energizing working on the #aspire brand refresh + docs re-platforming. Here's a few sneak peeks! 🤓 ✨ Fresh new docs UX 📖 Simplified nav and structure 🎨 Modern themes 🔍 Better discoverability ☑️ Asciinema terminal embeds Built with 💜 at Microsoft — @aspire.dev

Work in progress Aspire landing/marketing page.Proposed new Aspire page for creating your fist app.Conceptual content will be more concisely conveyed with modern flexibility in the new platform.An all-new Aspire integrations gallery page, with search/filtering, and download counts.
Scott Arbeit@scottarbeit.bsky.social · last yr.

Ah... after every reinstallation of Windows comes the day when I can no longer avoid installing npm. Sigh. I feel about Node.js the same way I feel about Perl and PHP... you could, but why would you in 2025?

Scott Arbeit@scottarbeit.bsky.social · last yr.

You know that thing where you start writing the GitHub issue for the problem you've been banging your head against for days, and just to make sure you don't look like an idiot you go over everything _one more time_ to make sure... and then you see what you've been missing. So that just happened.