And from that:
> Despite its Tolkien-inspired name, Earendil is not a tech company with fascist tendencies. Quite the opposite. They are basically well-meaning hippies in my book, who think software, and specifically AI, should serve humans, not the other way around.
So, somewhat hopeful? I'm not sure I can take any more of this grossness.
Words carry no weight in a world where every person in power weaponizes lying.
Congratulations Armin, and Mario, and good luck.
Dug up the email, here's what my boss said directly:
In terms of tech to keep up on, it might be worth while to play around with node.js a bit as we've been doing a few small projects using the Express MVC framework. A great reference for js, (which I remember chatting with you briefly about) is Javascript the Good Parts (Douglas Crockford). You may also consider seeking enlightenment on Armin Ronacher's github page (he's a python master, leader of flask, genshi, pocoo, long time python contributor) https://github.com/mitsuhiko. His code is pretty top notch. I follow Kenneth Reitz quite a bit too (Armin and he often work on projects together). Kenneth is know for le*git and python's request library.
Ah, anyway, what's clear enough is that Earendil is a tragically bad name for a company.
Interesting, considering I doubt I will ever see Pi in the context of computing and not immediately think of Raspberry Pi first.
I realize that legally speaking they can hold a distinct trademark for software when the other Pi is hardware but it just seems odd to me to lean so heavily on the trademarking of a commonly overloaded two letter name.
This was terrible branding, and is terrible branding.
The clash between "Earendil" and "Pi" is so overdetermined it might have required earnest effort.
The Dark Lord minions are really busy lately.
This is good too, I guess.
Mario - creator of Pi https://pi.dev
Later also heavily involved with Spine, which IME is still the defacto industry standard for 2D skinned animation in mobile/web games: https://esotericsoftware.com/