Is that the guy who kept running those quixotic campaigns against Nancy Pelosi?

No, you are thinking of Shahid Buttar. definitely not an early Stripe employee.

Heather McGhee's concept of 'drained pool politics' really resonates with me: https://newrepublic.com/article/171844/heather-mcghee-moving...

I’d love to see a new law requiring the NASA Administrator (a political appointee) to be a member of the first crewed flight of a new program.

I’m fairly confident NASA doesn’t read Maciej’s blog. However I’m confident that many people there read the Google doc he linked to. I suggest you do too.

I'm sure the UX would suck, but you could use hcl2json[0] and then transform that to YAML.

[0]: https://github.com/tmccombs/hcl2json

Yes, but then who hunts the Huntr/x?

I have some experience in this space and I want to strongly encourage the author to reconsider their free as in beer model.

Yes, your target users don’t have a lot of money, but they also deserve a sense of whether or not you’re going to keep maintaining this project. Additionally, they are generally NOT technical and will not have the skills necessary to set up or maintain this platform.

Without a paid offering, they will have to run the software and will not have any clarity about your long term commitment to the project. Feel free to reach out to me. My email address is in my profile.

Hey this is a good comment about the value of something being free that I hadn't thought of before. If it's open on GitHub though couldn't another person fork and continue along if the original author vanishes?

Well, sure. But what if another person doesn't show up to continue along? How does a non-technical customer validate that the fork is going to fit their needs and does what they say?

squish them very gently (and then give them treats)

It’s a real bummer when your ideological imperatives start conflicting with each other.

Poe's law: I can't tell if you are sarcastically commenting on op's ideology.

I suspect that they're commenting on the administration's ideology.

Red Box: https://lowendmac.com/1997/red-box-blue-box-yellow-box/