I've been a loyal digital ocean customer for years, I switched away from Linode way back when (for reasons I don't even remember.) I'm extremely happy with the DO service, so here's to hoping they don't screw it all up!!

yeah it's because Linode was more expensive and it had some security incidents

That's right. Wow seems like a lifetime ago. Remember Media Temple?? haha.

Back when DO came in and cut all Linode VM prices in half.

when you're deploying to prod it's always friday

read it and have no idea what it does

I think it's an LLM wrapper.

it spies. everything.

It's taken over my life, I am in a leadership position at faang but i'm daydreaming about getting back to my claude sessions at work.

> it's like programming with a couple of buddies. Occasionally they goof off and wreck everything,

Nailed it :)

The sad part is the “buddy hackathon” is kind of redundant now

I think people can do "buddy vibecodeathons" now. :)

It's nice to be able to either just body double [1], or have some other people around to vent to when Claude goes off the rails.

[1] https://health.clevelandclinic.org/body-doubling-for-adhd

They're trashing!!

Hack the planet!

We have no names, man. No names. We are nameless.

"im a real wild child i'm a wild one, im a wild one!!"

aaaah! joey! joey! thank you everybody!

"I'm not an addict. Can I get some more coffee?"

> Never fear, I is here.

> Out of the way you hapless techno weenie.

The little boat tipped over.

It caused a MAjor ECoLOGiCAL disASter?

Lorraine Bracco is great, but her delivery of that line cracks me up. That had to have been overdubbed or something.

Damn dude this hurts. My friend took his own life last year, and Hackers was our absolute favorite movie back in high school. I mean even as late as 2022 we were messaging each other the Hacker manifesto, hack the planet, you know all the good stuff. Sam Singh, you would've loved this man. I miss you homie. hack the planet.

As ytcracker says:

    Lost a lot of my people to drugs and jail
    And suicide cause we do or die
    Thats the way this thing goes with my crew and i
    But i guess that we all keep it moving right
    Terminal eternally but you know that i ain't sick
    Out here idling on my nick
    While i go ahead and do another magic trick

I'm sorry for your loss. I've lost many to all of these. The worst is someone I was in federal prison with and would hang out with daily. He got out and got on Fentanyl and was so messed up he literally burned alive after his house caught on fire. Rest in piece Daniel.

ytcracker still the greatest 2/26/2026 NES forever (9'.')9 (9'.')-o

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Sorry for your loss.

"This is it... this is where I belong..." I know everyone here... even if I've never met them, never talked to them, may never hear from them again... I know you all...

after all, we're all alike.

Thank you. And you know, it's those quotes and concepts that really stuck me with, about how we were all in it together. And not to get off topic, but i'm so sad and disheartened to see what tech has become since those days.

i feel you