Businesses that create custom works should be able to decide what they want to create, but they shouldn’t be able to limit who they’ll sell to.

You can use a deque as a stack (First In, Last Out) or as a queue (First In, First Out). Lists are especially inefficient when adding/removing from the beginning of the list, but, for deques, it’s a O(1) operation.

I used to be an ORM-hater, but my experience with Django has changed my mind, somewhat. I still think there are projects where ORM is unnecessary or even harmful, but for some projects, being able to lean on an ORM to create simple queries/updates or to handle DB migrations is a big time saver. And you can always fall back to hand-written SQL when you need to as long as the ORM allows it, which it absolutely should.

And it’s written in Java. Even though I’m not a huge fan of Java, it’s almost refreshing to see a new project claiming high performance that isn’t written in Rust or Go.

I remember when Reddit had a sizable Libertarian wing. Ron Paul, etc. Now, the same people who call everyone to the right of Bernie Sanders a “boot licker” go on to support every expansion of government power that is proposed and parrot the same opinions held by the largest corporations, media companies, and the government.