David Heinemeier Hansson:

This is exactly the kind of willing the future into existence that leaps of progress depend on. Who cares whether all these incredible ambitions arrive right on time or not.

Because ambition this crazy is only likely to emerge from someone equally and sufficiently nuts. And I mean that in the most admirable way possible. Musk is nuts. He’s one of the crazy ones. A true original. Easy to hate, impossible to ignore.

And that’s what gets me. Everyone find it easy to nod in agreement with Jobs’ ode to To The Crazy Ones. Everyone wants to believe that they’d support “the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers”. That they too would cheer for those who are “not fond of rules. And… have no respect for the status quo”.

But they won’t and they don’t. Most people are either aggressively or passively conformist. They squirm when The Crazy Ones actually attempt to change the world. They don’t see genius as often as they see transgressors.  A failure to comply and comport. And they don’t like it.

I like it. Not crazy for the sake of crazy, but crazy for the sake of progress. Demonstrable, undeniable, awe-inspiring progress. And that’s what Mr Musk has brought us and continues to bring us.

Once you’re rendering on the server, doing the “right thing” for your users becomes significantly easier.

Fish 4.0 completes the move from C++ to Rust.

Fish is a fantastic shell with tab completions, syntax highlighting, autocomplete, and lots more. It’s been my daily driver for at least 5 years now. If you depend on Bash scripts you can use Bass to load them.

Great tooling makes development fun — very important in a hobby project:

We need to get one thing out of the way: Rust is cool. It’s fun.

It’s tempting to try to sweep this under the rug because it feels gauche to say, but it’s actually important for a number of reasons.

For one, fish is a hobby project, and that means we want it to be fun for us. Nobody is being paid to work on fish, so we need it to be fun. Being fun and interesting also attracts contributors.

Rust also has great tooling. The tools have really paid a lot of attention to use, and the compiler errors are terrific. Not even “compared to C++”, they just actually rule. And as we have tried to pay attention to our own error messages (fish has a bespoke error for if it thinks a file you told it to run has Windows line endings), we like it.

And it is easy to get that tooling installed – rustup is magic, and allows people to get started quickly, with minimal fuss or root permissions. When the answer to “how to upgrade C++ compiler” is “find a repository (with root permissions), compile it yourself, install some other repository or a docker image”, it is amazing how the Rust answer can just be “use rustup”.

Rust has great ergonomics – the difference between C++’s pointers (which can always be NULL) and Rust’s Options are apparent very quickly even to those of us who had never used it before. We did have a backport of C++’s optional, and liked using it, but it was never as integrated as Rust’s Options were.

Great tools lead to great projects.

While we’re talking about shells, you might want to try Ghostty, Berkeley Mono, and Fastfetch to kick off 2025.

The Node.js Project will soon issue a CVE for EOL versions of Node.js such as Node.js 16 — which is still downloaded 11 million times per month.

You can run is-my-node-vulnerable to check if you are using an EOL version of any version with a CVE issued to it.

npx is-my-node-vulnerable

These versions are supported as of this writing:

• Node.js 23 (Current)
• Node.js 22 (LTS)
• Node.js 20 (Maintenance LTS)
• Node.js 18 (Maintenance LTS)

Why issue a CVE? Node.js aims to warn users by issuing a CVE:

• Raise Awareness: Inform users that running EOL versions exposes their applications to potential vulnerabilities.
• Encourage Upgrades: Prompt organizations and developers to update to actively supported Node.js versions.
• Improve Security: Reduce the number of applications running outdated and unsupported versions of Node.js.