There are several different trains of thought when it comes to software “nagging” users about updates. Naturally, I want to talk a bit about how this works in the open-source developer tools world.

Today, I watched my best friends graduate college. University of Chicago, class of 2017. Bachelors of Arts and Science. I’m just starting to appreciate just how lucky I was to have them. They were my first real group of friends.

I grew up hearing the phrase “never again”. As a young Jewish boy, those two words embodied how I understood justice. It meant that we’d learn from the atrocities of the past, and do my part to ensure they wouldn’t happen on my watch.

Right now, that very idea of justice is under attack.