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And I think that level of cognitive behavioral therapy, that's part of the reason why I'm excited about things like Omicube. Can we introduce that level to this generation of developers such that they will realize that running computers on the internet is not some exotic, dangerous thing that's only for Linux wizards and neckbeards who've been doing it for 40 fucking years. It's for you too.

And I think that level of cognitive behavioral therapy, that's part of the reason why I'm excited about things like Omicube. Can we introduce that level to this generation of developers such that they will realize that running computers on the internet is not some exotic, dangerous thing that's only for Linux wizards and neckbeards who've been doing it for 40 fucking years. It's for you too.

It's never been easier. It's never been cheaper. And... The stand you're able to take for independence and pricing and all the other advantages that you get out of that is totally worth it. Totally freaking worth it. It's nowhere near as complicated as figuring out how to make a 1972 Yamaha motorcycle work or the timing belts. So...

It's never been easier. It's never been cheaper. And... The stand you're able to take for independence and pricing and all the other advantages that you get out of that is totally worth it. Totally freaking worth it. It's nowhere near as complicated as figuring out how to make a 1972 Yamaha motorcycle work or the timing belts. So...

We need to disabuse people of this nonsense, which includes sort of addressing head on the fact that the AWS reseller model is incredibly profitable. This is why all the VCs want to do it. There was just an announcement, I think, yesterday about another web framework who also wants to be an AWS reseller. And I totally get it. I totally get why VCs look at that.

We need to disabuse people of this nonsense, which includes sort of addressing head on the fact that the AWS reseller model is incredibly profitable. This is why all the VCs want to do it. There was just an announcement, I think, yesterday about another web framework who also wants to be an AWS reseller. And I totally get it. I totally get why VCs look at that.

Wait, so you're telling me I don't even have to own computers? I can just rent those computers and then rent them again to someone else? Oh, that sounds like a great business model. I have no inventory. I have no staff. I have no nothing. I just mainly have to convince developers that they're stupid and fragile, so that they need my shit. And then I can just... run the money printer.

Wait, so you're telling me I don't even have to own computers? I can just rent those computers and then rent them again to someone else? Oh, that sounds like a great business model. I have no inventory. I have no staff. I have no nothing. I just mainly have to convince developers that they're stupid and fragile, so that they need my shit. And then I can just... run the money printer.

Yeah, no, that's not the model of the internet that I'm interested in. And again, I'm putting things to a point. I appreciate the advantages in developer economics. Heroku, for example, really did amazing pioneering work in the AWS reseller space, and they taught The rest of us, do you know what? Deploying to a server could be a whole lot easier, and we should make it easier.

Yeah, no, that's not the model of the internet that I'm interested in. And again, I'm putting things to a point. I appreciate the advantages in developer economics. Heroku, for example, really did amazing pioneering work in the AWS reseller space, and they taught The rest of us, do you know what? Deploying to a server could be a whole lot easier, and we should make it easier.

But to me, that is essentially shining a light on a part of the infrastructure level of how we work with the internet that open source should then address. And it's not like, oh, you've got to come up with Photoshop, right? That's the whole Photoshop versus GIMP debate that happens. Yeah, do you know what?

But to me, that is essentially shining a light on a part of the infrastructure level of how we work with the internet that open source should then address. And it's not like, oh, you've got to come up with Photoshop, right? That's the whole Photoshop versus GIMP debate that happens. Yeah, do you know what?

Even as a now converted Linux fan, I can look at that and go like, yeah, GIMP is not as good. I'm not saying GIMP is a bad piece of software. I'm just saying end-user software like Photoshop is difficult to make on this model. What's not difficult to make on this model is goddamn infrastructure. All the best infrastructure in the world is open source, from Linux to MySQL to Nginx to whatever.

Even as a now converted Linux fan, I can look at that and go like, yeah, GIMP is not as good. I'm not saying GIMP is a bad piece of software. I'm just saying end-user software like Photoshop is difficult to make on this model. What's not difficult to make on this model is goddamn infrastructure. All the best infrastructure in the world is open source, from Linux to MySQL to Nginx to whatever.

The entire stack, even the entire stack that's being used in the cloud, it's all built on open source stuff. So this fact that we're going to give up the last mile to a bunch of VCs and a bunch of closed source commercial passes that. No, no, no. This is where we take up the mantle and go like, we can make this easy. We can make this better.

The entire stack, even the entire stack that's being used in the cloud, it's all built on open source stuff. So this fact that we're going to give up the last mile to a bunch of VCs and a bunch of closed source commercial passes that. No, no, no. This is where we take up the mantle and go like, we can make this easy. We can make this better.

I've been trying to push that envelope with Kamal, a deployed tool that we used to build on top of Docker to get out of the cloud. We used to be in the cloud. We used to be on AWS. We used to be on all this stuff for a bunch of hours, things with Basecamp. And hey, and we yanked all of it out because cost was just getting ridiculous. And we built a bit of tooling.

I've been trying to push that envelope with Kamal, a deployed tool that we used to build on top of Docker to get out of the cloud. We used to be in the cloud. We used to be on AWS. We used to be on all this stuff for a bunch of hours, things with Basecamp. And hey, and we yanked all of it out because cost was just getting ridiculous. And we built a bit of tooling.

And now I'm on a goddamn mission to make open source as capable, as easy to use as all these AWS resellers we have against any box running basic Linux with an IP address you can connect to.

And now I'm on a goddamn mission to make open source as capable, as easy to use as all these AWS resellers we have against any box running basic Linux with an IP address you can connect to.