2025-08-12
9 分钟What up, nerds?
I'm Jared, and this is Changelog News for the week of Monday, August 11th, 2025.
I'm in an existential mood today,
so here's two thoughts that were impressed on me over the weekend, juxtaposed.
The first thought comes from a recent Ben Stancil essay in which he does the math on the gobsmacking amount of money floating around Silicon Valley these days and how everyone does the math to see how much everyone else is worth.
Ben concludes, quote, We don't do the math to measure ourselves.
We do the math to compare ourselves.
End quote.
So true, but that's just the setup.
The money quote is a footnote to that sentence.
The second thought I'd like to share comes from a not-at-all-recent man named Job.
After receiving news that he lost everything to raiders and a mighty wind, Job said,
quote, Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked shall I return there.
The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away.
Blessed be the name of the Lord.
End quote.
Okay, let's get into the news.
Open source regrets.
A recent Akron News AskHN thread piqued my interest.
Maybe it will yours as well.