Halls of Glowing Apples | Coder Radio 407

Ruby has gone off the rails this week, and Wes is here to explain what’s happened.

Plus emails into the show send Chris into a full Linux panic.

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• Sacrificing acts of heroism, big and small - YouTube
• Ruby off the Rails — On Wednesday, Bastien Nocera, the maintainer of a software library called shared-mime-info, informed Daniel Mendler, maintainer of a Ruby library called mimemagic, which incorporates Nocera's code, that he was shipping mimemagic under an incompatible software license.

• Announcing the Deno Company — Deno is our attempt to breathe new life into this ecosystem.
• Deno Deploy
• Chip shortage could benefit Apple with better component pricing — The global chip shortage will become a problem for devices like iPhones and Macs requiring chips for storage, but Wedbush believes it could be beneficial to Apple and its suppliers by improving the pricing of components.