21 replies

1. cthos 🐱 4 min later

   @zachleat No think, only corporate capture!

2. Khalid ⚡ 5 min later

   @zachleat

3. Jason Garber 18 min later

   @zachleat he’s busy throwing parties at his mansion on long island

   1. Zach Leatherman 21 min later

      @jgarber F. Scott Fitzgerald sounds like I really don’t like a guy named Scott Fitzgerald

      1. Jason Garber 40 min later

         @zachleat The “F” stands for “free as in freedom.”

      2. Brantley Harris 1 hr later

         @zachleat @jgarber No they got the punctuation all wrong: F*** Scott, Fitzgerald!

4. Potch 41 min later

   @zachleat every time I try to I run out of memory

   1. Zach Leatherman 1 hr later

      @potch I write everything down in my notebook because memory prices are increasing

5. westbrook 5 hr later

   @zachleat That guy through a big party at some point, right? Lots of champagne…lots.

6. Zach Leatherman 6 hr later

   “To keep the power in the hands of developers and honor its deep roots in open source, Netlify is committed to being good stewards of the Gatsby open-source project”

   February 2023

   https://www.netlify.com/press/netlify-acquires-gatsby-inc-to-accelerate-adoption-of-composable-web-architectures/

   1. Zach Leatherman 6 hr later

      “Gatsby as a framework will continue to evolve and grow. We’ve always shared with Netlify a mutual commitment to open-source and have never been more excited about Gatsby’s future. Many of Gatsby’s core contributors will join Netlify and continue to maintain the Gatsby framework.”

      February 2023

      https://www.gatsbyjs.com/blog/gatsby-is-joining-netlify/

      1. Khalid ⚡ 6 hr later

         @zachleat

      2. Danny Blue 6 hr later

         @zachleat I don't want to shit on anyone's work but I have had nothing but bad experiences with Gatsby

      3. mokobien 7 hr later

         @zachleat Did the framework actually get a significant userbase? It felt like it was a lot of hype and enthusiasts side-projects

   2. Jan Lehnardt 11 hr later

      @zachleat is anything happening to Gatsby?

      1. Florian Schroiff 14 hr later

         @janl the Gatsby-posting is related to the recent news that Cloudflare has acquired Astro. History repeating? A warning?

   3. benschwarz 12 hr later

      @zachleat IMO Gatsby was poorly designed and just kinda bad technology. They should never have raised VC, but the money was flowing so

7. Alan 7 hr later

   @zachleat has something new happened with it? I remember looking at it once but it didn't grab me.

8. David Brownman 7 hr later

   @zachleat I literally (~ weeks ago) finally rewrote my site from Gatsby -> Astro. The latter has been so stable for years for other sites! Cautiously optimistic, but we know how this stuff usually goes...

   https://xavd.id/blog/post/another-site-rewrite

   1. Aleš Roubíček 10 hr later

      @xavdid @zachleat https://blog.cloudflare.com/astro-joins-cloudflare/

      1. AliveDevil 11 hr later

         @alesroubicek @xavdid @zachleat

         Oh ffs. Why can’t we have nice things.