Readit NewsLuminar was an exit scam in the SPAC era, they went public during that time and they have been struggling.
Also Lidar is hugely expensive.
Their Lidar deal with Volvo fell through and now it's bankrupted them.
That seems backwards and hellish when you want to grow your content and marketing team as they have no clue on how to use this arcane tool.
Now the engineers would need to be bothered by the marketing department time and time again to add blog posts, wasting engineering time.
This is the reason why CMS's like Sanity, Wordpress, Directus exist.
using Git as a CMS doesn't make sense at scale.
Citation Needed.
More importantly, benchmarks needed.
Cannot claim something X is better approach than Y without benchmarks, it is an idea but needs to be proven to be better.
Until then, this post is nothing more than yet another opinion.
1 and 2 are now trending essentially to 0.
3. Will get harder to get a job in the years to come.
Stay at your role, build a small side project if you can. Don't leave.
Stars can be faked and botted. It is not the lock in.
The lock in is the distribution of GitHub, (issues, outside contributions, sponsors, etc)
I cannot unsee this and it is forever now an additional burden of unwanted knowledge on the existing reality of Japan’s declining population and fertility crisis.
Each time there is a glimmer of hope of a trend reversing or going back to normal, a headline like this just unfortunately confirms in some sense what I already know.
Now this news made this situation even worse.
Happy for them, hoping this is a super strange outlier, But holistically unhappy for the course of humanity.
Sad.