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This is the first I’ve heard of Substack. I thought I recognized that name and then I remembered....there’s a developer[0] who has written many packages on npm
by styfle 8y ago
This is the first I’ve heard of Substack.
I thought I recognized that name and then I remembered....there’s a developer[0] who has written many packages on npm[1] with the same name: substack
I’ll have to check this out just because of the name :)
[0]: https://github.com/substack https://github.com/substack
[1]: https://www.npmjs.com/~substack https://www.npmjs.com/~substack
- cjbest 8y agoJust to avoid any confusion: we are not affiliated with James Halliday, the developer who uses the Github/Twitter handle substack. (Though now that I look at it, I definitely respect his work, especially minimist)
- slikts 8y agoAre you going to add this disclaimer to everything you do now, or is the idea to just take the name over with your capital? It's their name that they've established by being a prolific, well-respected developer; it was also the only search result for it before you appeared, because it's a unique name without an another established meaning. There's no explanation for why you'd choose it outside of not doing due dilligence or just lack of morals.
- eli 8y agoThat's ridiculous. A new platform for journalism can't share a name with a popular Node developer? Even actual trademarks only apply across a category of similar products.
- abowlofpetunias 8y agoThat is some pretty extreme jumping to conclusions...
- slikts 8y agoYet you don't mention an alternative explanation.
- ericschmidt 8y agoFound James Halliday lmao
- jeswin 8y ago> especially minimist Substack also wrote browserify, which changed the way people write JavaScript.
- tobr 8y agoThis was confusing, I thought this was an AMA with James Halliday.