nostr:npub1cpt3kz0qflhzsa48zsda4pzqufanc90yew0kfgfgdq7tpqxx032q42suqu It is.

We don't have a good way to queue multiple deploys in a row, nor do we want multiple merges to go out in the same deploy (one merge, one deploy, that's the rule: if your merge hurts any stats on prod it gets rolled back) - so every merge to master gets deployed instantly, and you're not allowed to merge while a deploy is happening.

Every metaphor around this system is described using a hot potato. Ergo, the potatomoji is deeply tied to our deploy system.🥔

nostr:npub1dvdcupztwzszz8u0ld9ptuf78jaqd43mhsfwf2d8ezwhz6tz2z0shxh0ph If you bothered to learn about libraries, you'd know that income doesn't correlate to library usage the way you're suggesting. And a PEW study found higher income people were more likely to check out print books and use apps, while lower income people are more likely to get help from a librarian, and use the library to sit and read or access media. A PE firm taking money out of libraries hurts communities in wholly different ways that have little to do with publishers getting paid.

nostr:npub19p5p8m0m9ygmswn38f57f7lnrz0fpkv8x9t47r4hkqhh5thud6uqdww0v0 nobody *really* believes that people should have open access to books for free unless they’re very poor and don’t mind the inconvenience of waiting in a bread line they imagined out of whole cloth and paid to create.

nostr:npub19p5p8m0m9ygmswn38f57f7lnrz0fpkv8x9t47r4hkqhh5thud6uqdww0v0 Overdrive was haunted from the very beginning by the idea that library lending must be necessarily made awkward and inconvenient so that it doesn’t interfere with _actual book sales_. The whole thing is burdened with an unnecessary “check out the book and return it” metaphor that’s actively ridiculous for digital files.

nostr:npub1dvdcupztwzszz8u0ld9ptuf78jaqd43mhsfwf2d8ezwhz6tz2z0shxh0ph except for the vast majority of authors, the money their books earn from library lending is hugely important. They shouldn't have to write for "passion and exposure" just because some capitalists are strip mining a company. I'd rather keep libraries the gold standard than concede and make writing an even more untenable pursuit for 99% of authors.