It was the first episode of Voyager I ever watched, at a friend's recommendation. What a gift.

Not an answer to your question, but services like PeerTube use P2P.

Ruby port of @brie's solution:

puts ARGV[0].gsub(/(.)\1*/){|m|m[0]+m.size.to_s}

https://github.com/tdenniston/bish is one such language.

I'd also recommend Shellcheck which helps prevent many problems with shell scripts.

Might not meet your needs, but Nova kinda does that: https://nova.app/

I love the little sign that says "ENSIGN AT WORK" that Ransom is holding

I love the little sign that says "ENSIGN AT WORK" that Ransom is holding

My latest was a mnemonic to remember tar commands on Linux: https://evanhahn.com/mnemonic-to-remember-tar-commands/

There's a great podcast called "Surviving Y2K" that explores a bunch of these stories. People did a lot of wild stuff.

Small idea: "AI" tools can write simple tests for a given function or class. I don't blindly endorse these tools nor is it a complete solution, but the time save might convince a reluctant developer.

I've had the most success patiently arguing the value of tests over time (years). When a bug would've been caught by a test, mention it. When someone would've moved faster with a test, say something. I haven't found "I'm right, let me convince you" pushes to be very effective.

Great analysis as always. Especially happy that you mentioned "traditional rocks of Starfleet electronics being scattered in the explosions".

@mrkite Ooh, I like this makefile...I might steal it.

@no_sle3p I have them in a Git repo and I use GNU Stow to symlink things. I also wrote a blog post about this with more details: https://evanhahn.com/a-decade-of-dotfiles/