epchris

I’m sorry that you’re in this spot, it’s not easy. I see a lot of what I love as a software engineer as “solving problems” and a big part of that was solving problems by writing code, but that part is changing.

But it sounds like you’ve identified a bunch of problems. I’m seeing how it feels to see these new frictions as a problem to be solved and finding fun in it so far.

Reviewing code wasn’t ever real fun for me but it was managable at the pace we used to write code. So thats a new problem to solve: how can we confidently ship this new pace of code and feel confident about it? Some of that has been trying to design the process around it, some has been writing agents to help me stay sane while juggling the new amount of PRs I have to face.

It feels, so far, like trying to see all these new situations as problems to be solved, and experimenting with ways to solve them, has been fun for now, hopefully well find ways to keep it fulfilling.

If they were publicly available pins, and users agreed to the license that gave them permission to use their data, then they can do that.

I think the broader issue is people being acclimated to permissive licenses, and not having privacy as a default