Well, it appears nobody else has taken the lead on this since 1997 so…

My mother passed away from lung cancer about 2 years ago.

I wish I had more videos and audio recordings of her. I wish I had handwritten letters from her. I wish I had audio/video of stories and family history only she would know. Above all, I don’t think I would have found any of the above weird or morbid, and I doubt your children (or spouse?) will either. I know my siblings feel the same as I do. You should feel safe in knowing that they will deeply appreciate any artifacts you leave behind for them to think about when they miss you.

I’m sorry for what you’re going through, and I wish you and your family the best.

This does not match my understanding, but I am not an expert. You receiving those charges is not mandated by the government; rather, passing them through to the consumer is entirely discretionary and often done by ISPs or cell carriers. The article discussed this with the suggestion that ISPs instead simply roll it into the base rate if they do not wish to have to advertise the additional fees. This is exactly what T-Mobile does for their cell phone plans and I love it.

You might be surprised to learn that it was not and still is not a solved problem for companies like Meta. Here is an earlier write-up about this topic from Meta: https://engineering.fb.com/2014/01/07/core-data/scaling-merc...

Also keep in mind they've been in hypergrowth mode since 2010 or earlier. Regardless of whether Git is the clear solution today, it definitely wasn't at that time. So it makes sense they invested in building their own tooling.

And now it's 2023, and they're inventing the wheel again.

Not a very robust analogy. There are tons of different wheel designs out there. Some are good for racing and suck for rain. Some are great in the snow but are noisy and inefficient on the highway. Etc... Maybe their needs are so special they need a wheel design that doesn't commercially exist?

Someone really needs to reinvent that analogy.

You might be surprised to learn that they're solving the wrong problem.

I don't think you fully understand how big their codebase is and how many different teams are working on it at any given time.

There are very fundamental differences between a mono-repo and a bunch of repos for each "service" or whatever. Lots of tradeoffs. I've worked both and I can see the reasons for huge monorepos. They make a lot of things that were previously hard much simpler... The tradeoff is your tooling needs to be able to scale with growth of the company. And for a company the size of FB, dedicating an entire team to improving the tooling for their monorepo is well worth it.

Sit down. I worked at FB.

One year in 2014/2015?

Saying that Meta "reinvented CVS" means you either know very little about source control or you are just being purposely misleading. Neither is a very good look.

+1 the website is borderline unusable on my work laptop. I have an M1 Pro in my standard MacBook Pro 2021. I am using the latest version Chrome and this animation causes a huge performance regression on my computer when it's visible.

Perhaps this is preferable to the user, but if you consider it from the developer's POV, almost no users will contribute meaningful "donations", so it stops making economic sense to follow the latter model you suggest unless the project is an altruistic hobby.

Furthermore, the economics of video hosting sites like YouTube are such that you have truly incredible storage, server, and bandwidth growth, basically forever. I don’t think it’s feasible for there to be a “free” API that lets people use YouTube as they please, build clones of the site with no ads, etc.