Robert and I soar on the podcast to have just a little chat about open supply typically and what we do with open supply at CodePen. CodePen itself will not be open supply, except for the small bits we’ve made public and the open-source issues we embrace inside it. However all Public Pens on CodePen are open supply, so we actually deal with numerous it! Sufficient that I felt comfy making our Mastodon presence on Fosstodon, which is an open-source-focused occasion.
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Chris Coyier: Hey, everyone. CodePen Radio #396. I’ve Robert with me this week. What’s up, Robert?
Robert Kieffer: Oh, not a lot. Simply good to be again on the podcast.
Chris: Yeah. Good. You are actually about three ft away from me with a soundproof wall between us.
Robert: Yeah.
Chris: It is all too uncommon that we do.
Robert: The sales space.
Chris: We’re each in Bend at CodePen world headquarters. Ah… simply kidding. We do not even have a world headquarters. As we discovered final week, we’re an all-remote firm. We simply so occur to stay in the identical city, so now we have a pleasant workplace collectively.
Robert: Yeah, I get to crash at your workplace each occasionally. It is good.
Chris: Yeah!
Robert: It will get me out of the home.
Chris: Heck yeah. Proper downtown in stunning Bend, Oregon.
So, our plan was to speak about open supply as a result of it impacts CodePen. It impacts each firm ever, as an instance. [Laughter] Only a vitally essential subject.
Robert: It is positively one thing that advantages each firm on the market, and small firms particularly. It is one thing that is been close to and expensive to my coronary heart for some time. Yeah, this might be enjoyable.
Chris: Yeah. I believe the best way that you simply interface with open-source is a bit more – I do not know – uncooked and direct than anyone else at CodePen as a result of you might have libraries that you simply work on and preserve. You’ve got simply been concerned with it and have type of a pure inclination in direction of – I do not know – coping with it or fixing issues that now we have that method. [Laughter]
Robert: Yeah, properly, additionally I have been round lengthy sufficient that I’ve gotten to see the arch of the open-source group actually develop. I have been coding for the reason that ’80s when open supply wasn’t actually a factor. And so, seeing the way it’s simply developed, change into this simply foundational piece of the complete software program world, is fairly cool.
I do know what it is prefer to not have an open-source group, so I positively respect the place we’re at present. And I actually do like that, simply that sense of the worth that it brings, and having the ability to give again. It is fairly good.
Chris: Yeah. I imply there are grandiose issues let’s imagine. It has bettered mankind to have the open-source group. It is a actually, super-duper large deal. You understand? It is about as large of a deal because the Web itself, actually.
Robert: Sure.
Chris: There’s additionally grandiose controversy with it that I do not know that we’ll be capable of breach on this podcast. There are issues with it which can be so large that they are arduous to speak about. They deserve world-class journalism to get into them, like who’re the individuals who do that. Are they residing their finest life? Are they getting what they deserve out of this ecosystem? How do you monetize it? That type of factor as a result of there are issues with all that. I am undecided we’re prepared to do this.
Robert: Safety within the NPM ecosystem.
Chris: Yeah, proper.
Robert: Have enjoyable with that. [Laughter]
Chris: Uh-huh. We’ll resolve it within the subsequent 25 minutes.
Robert: Yeah. No downside. I do not know what’s taking them so lengthy.
Chris: However let’s discuss… Perhaps we are able to scope it all the way down to smaller issues like examples of CodePen plus open supply. I might suppose it is no shock to most individuals listening to this that each one of CodePen, for instance, will not be open supply. We now have open-sourced type of treasured little all through our profession.
You stated to me earlier than the present, briefly, that that is not terribly uncommon, particularly for actually small firms. It is nearly like calculus you must carry out internally. There is a value to doing open-source, and numerous actually small firms simply select to not pay it due to the very actual prices concerned.
Robert: Yeah, particularly for small firms, however even giant firms. I believe firms that actually make substantive contributions to open-source are rather more the rarity than the norm at any degree, however particularly for small companies the place, like I used to be saying, it takes a specific amount of effort to work together and contribute to open-source. In the event you’re a small firm, that fraction is a comparatively giant proportion of your workday. Whereas if in case you have a big firm, you may afford to have a couple of people who type of disappear off into the weeds of open-source tasks sometimes.
Chris: Mm-hmm.
Robert: However small firms, that will get noticeable fast.
Chris: Proper. Proper, proper. There’s an instance right here and there. I keep in mind. I believe now we have… It is in all probability nonetheless there now. I am undecided how related it’s anymore, however a number of the issues that we have chosen to open-source have been actually super-hyper area of interest, too.
For instance, one of many issues that is simply parentally a problem with user-generated code web sites is, “Nicely, what if that person writes code that freezes the browser?” It is simply painfully simple to put in writing an infinite loop in JavaScript.
Robert: Mm-hmm.
Chris: In the event you unintentionally do this on CodePen, it may freeze the browser to the purpose the place you may’t even save the work that you simply had been engaged on as a result of, actually, the browser tab is useless.
[Laughter] We knew that was an issue once we began CodePen, and we have solved it a complete bunch of various methods and benefited from different individuals’s open-source options. At one level we had been like, “Yeah, we predict now we have a fairly good answer that works for us,” and open sourced it.
However guess what number of stars that has on GitHub. Like two. [Laughter]
Robert: Proper. Proper. Open supply is that code that exists on the intersection of issues you might have and issues that everyone else has.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah.
Robert: How many individuals even have that downside of, like, “I need to run code from any individual else, and I do not need to cope with infinite loops”?
Chris: Proper. There’s not very many firms. And the businesses that do it may need their very own inner options, as we regularly do.
Robert: Yeah. Today, it is really arduous to give you concepts for open-source tasks that have not already been executed as a result of there may be such an enormous group. The tasks that I cope with, the massive ones are UUID and the mind-type modules and NPM. I largely received into that as a result of I used to be type of there on the bottom ground of Node and NPM again within the day, and any individual needed to write these. I simply occurred to be there.
Chris: Yeah, proper. We may get into these just a little extra, however I believed we may discuss some current. These are fairly micro-examples, however I believe they’re in all probability reflective of real-world, small firm interacting with open-source group kind of conditions.
One of many factors of utilizing CodePen is utilizing totally different processors that course of your code. That means that if you wish to write some Much less.js actually rapidly, you do not have to make a folder domestically and obtain the NPM dependencies and arrange a watcher to construct your stuff. Generally you simply need to write a few of that code and see the outcomes, and lots of people use CodePen for that. Thanks for doing so, by the best way.
Now, once we obtain that code, we have to course of it. And there are sufficient dangerous individuals on the planet that they know that that is the case, that they will write code and {that a} CodePen server will execute it. So, what can they do to misbehave? Can they get that factor to mine Bitcoin or no matter? [Laughter]
Robert: Proper. One of many issues that Much less has is that it helps an import assertion the place you may really level it at a random file and it’ll execute that for you on CodePen servers. Previous to my arrival, I believe Stephen had created a fork of Much less, the library, and gone in and been like, “Nicely, we will disable the flexibility to have import statements.”
And so, once I got here in and was like, “Oh, I’ve received rewrite processors,” and particularly the Much less processor for this new undertaking we have going.
Chris: Mm-hmm.
Robert: I used to be taking a look at that, and the Much less undertaking, there have been different people who had type of stated, like, “Hey, it would be very nice if we may do that as a result of we additionally need to have the ability to run Much less with out having to fret about unsecure or malicious code doing dangerous issues to our servers.”
Yeah, so I type of jumped on that and was like, “Nicely, here is type of what we did with our answer,” and I massaged it just a little bit in order that it had a correct command line choice that you may run from the command line. There was a discipline for an API. And put that up as a PR.
Chris: As a result of it is type of such as you need to move a true-false worth, proper? It is not such as you’re saying, “Please take away this out of your open-source library.” I simply need to, by the config, say, “Yeah, course of it with out that function.”
Robert: Yeah. The directive is like, “Ignore import directives,” or one thing. I do not keep in mind.
Chris: Yeah. Proper.
Robert: It is some flag like that, however yeah. There have been type of two causes for that.
One is it helps different people who have the identical challenge. That exact challenge had been up for some time. I believe Stephen might have really created it initially, and so it was like a 12 months or so outdated and had some dialog.
I used to be like, “Nicely, let’s examine if we are able to resolve this downside.” And also you trip with the maintainers, and also you begin that dialog with, like, “Hey, I might like to repair this downside. Is that one thing you would be amenable to? Would you be prepared to take a PR on this?”
On this case, I believe they had been receptive to that concept, and so in the end, that’s now a factor on the principle Much less codebase. It is on the market. it has been printed. Now you can use this flag, which is nice as a result of we not have to keep up our fork. And that is big.
Chris: Yeah, that is big as a result of our fork was a monkey patch, too. It is not like we may use the canonical Much less after which apply some type of file-based patch to it or one thing. It was not that. We had to enter the internals and alter code. Which means you are perpetually going to be reapplying that patch to their up to date one, and that sucks. You need to use the canonical factor in the event you can.
Robert: Yeah. Anyone will finally get round to taking a look at our model of that fork and be like, “Oh, yeah. We’re like 37 commits behind the principle fork.”
Chris: Oh, yeah. Inform me about it.
Robert: “Gee, I ponder if there’s helpful stuff in there that we wish.” You understand? Yeah, forks are helpful but additionally they’re an actual burden.
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Chris: There is a distinction in – I do not know – angle and energy and stuff there that is attention-grabbing to me that – I do not know – I ought to take into consideration more durable. Whereas I am like, “Okay, I’ve some downside,” or I’ve some concept or one thing for an open-source library.
It is one factor to open the difficulty and simply say… You could possibly even do an incredible job with the difficulty. You could possibly clarify precisely what you need to do. You clarify what you have tried. You could possibly clarify an imagined scenario that might resolve your downside. You are able to do an incredible job with that.
However it doesn’t matter what you do, it type of, in a method, pales compared to the PR. You’ll be able to clarify all that stuff after which say, [laughter] “Here is an alteration to your code which you can immediately have a look at that might resolve this.” That is simply such an enormous deal. It is like night time and day.
Robert: Yeah. Nicely, as a undertaking maintainer, there’s type of a hierarchy of contributions when it comes to the worth. The very first thing is the report of any individual saying, like, “Hey. I am getting this error message,” and that is what lots of people get.
It is like, “Oh, okay.” I can not actually do a lot with that aside from type of nod my head and agree in sympathy.
Then you definitely get people who submit points which have precise substantive examples of the right way to reproduce the problems. It is like, “Okay. This really offers me one thing I can dig into.”
Then the following step up, which is fairly excessive on the hierarchy of worth, are the individuals which can be prepared to place PRs collectively who’re like, “Okay. I’ve taken the time to grasp what your undertaking does and attempt to add worth.” These are nice as a result of you might have precise code you may have a look at.
Usually, you may have take a look at circumstances or at the least examples of, like, here is the code and here is the way it really transforms the conduct of the undertaking. And people are very nice.
I really like getting that for the tasks I am on, however they’re additionally actually uncommon. Only a few individuals really take the time to do this type of factor.
Chris: Proper. Yeah, good factors. The truth that the difficulty was already described.
We additionally had, in a method, permission to do the PR, which is type of good, too.
Robert: Mm-hmm.
Chris: It is type of good to ask that forward of time. I nearly want there was a greater social conference for that, some type of verb or time period or one thing that claims, “Are you amenable to PRs or not?” Bullion reply.
Robert: Yeah. I imply the open-source group, it’s the complete cross-section of the developer world. I think about going to some ComiCon someplace the place you are coping with each character possible.
Chris: [Laughter] Really. Proper?
Robert: [Laughter] You understand?
Chris: How grumpy are you? [Laughter]
Robert: Proper. It applies to each maintainers and contributors and the poor suckers on the finish of the road that simply need to use the fricken’ code and never must cope with the individuals concerned.
Chris: Yeah.
Robert: That is one factor that we may in all probability go down a complete path there in regards to the ethos and etiquette of open supply. I believe Alex did come throughout a undertaking the opposite day the place the maintainer had simply type of clearly had it and was like, [laughter] “Look. I am executed with dealing wit you guys,” and he archived the undertaking.
Chris: You discovered the precise second where–
Robert: [Laughter] Yeah.
Chris: –he ranted about any individual as a result of in all probability any individual requested him one thing in all probability just a little unfair. Within the screenshot, we did not see what he was requested, however [laughter] he was like, “Oh… Maintain on, muchacho. You come right here and ask me for this code?!” You understand he was clearly–
Robert: Yeah. Anyone had requested him to decide to a date by which he would repair some challenge that had been a bug for six months.
Chris: Oh…
Robert: And the man was like, [laughter] — mainly like, “That is open-source, dude. I do not do schedules.” [Laughter]
Chris: Yeah. Then that was the primary response. He is like, “I am not doing this.” After which three days later he is like, “This complete undertaking is canceled.” [Laughter]
Robert: Yeah.
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Robert: My coronary heart simply went out to that man. I felt so dangerous. I used to be like, “Dude, I’ve been there.”
Chris: Mm-hmm.
Robert: Yeah. As a contributor, I attempt to be very respectful of that. As a maintainer, I’ll admit; the little satan on my shoulder positively lets me unleash at occasions.
Chris: I used to be at a lodge final week, and there have been some issues with the lodge room and a few numerous issues. You are nearly skilled as an individual to be like, if there’s an issue, then you definately get on the telephone otherwise you go all the way down to the entrance desk and say, “Hey, this lodge room, the water does not get sizzling. There’s one thing improper with this factor. When is that this going to be fastened?”
That nearly interprets into an open-source library, and you are like, “Hey, there’s an issue with this code. When is it going to be fastened?” [Laughter] However that dynamic doesn’t map properly.
Robert: Yeah. The lodge analogy doesn’t work within the open-source world.
Chris: No.
Robert: Open supply is extra such as you go into the alley behind the lodge. In the event you’re in search of a spot to remain, properly, there is a dumpster that occurs to be there.
Chris: [Laughter]
Robert: Anyone politely put it out for you.
Chris: Proper.
Robert: However you do not get to complain about what’s within the backside of that dumpster.
Chris: Yeah, precisely. It does not. However nonetheless, your mind in all probability has bother with that generally, or some individuals’s does.
Chris: One other instance is, we’re sitting across the workplace right here and we’re watching the Apple Keynote/Subsequent 13 announcement. That was only a dumb joke.
Robert: Yeah.
Chris: It was a really, very put collectively, fancy type of watch the stream of this occasion factor the place they had been releasing the following model of Subsequent, which is by Vercel and, by all accounts, are doing very properly. It was a cool launch. Good for them.
It was like, okay, within the new factor there is a new folder within the Subsequent world the place as an alternative of calling them pages, it is referred to as app – or one thing like that.
Robert: Proper.
Chris: I do not recall proper now.
Robert: Proper.
Chris: In the event you put your stuff in app, you have type of received to say, “Is that this – I do not know – a server-side part or not?” It is like a brand new directive.
Robert: Proper. Subsequent 13 is rather more deliberate about, like, “We’ll attempt to render stuff on the server by default.” Then magic occurs, proper? I do not know what the hell they do.
Chris: Yeah.
Robert: There’s this distinction between server-side rendering and client-side rendering. Subsequent 13 is like, “Nicely, we will render stuff on the server if in any respect attainable, however you have to inform us if you would like it to be rendered on the shopper,” like in the event you’re doing a little fetch within the shopper and you’ll’t render on the server.
Chris: Yeah. Yep.
Robert: You have to inform us, and the best way you do that–
Chris: Nicely, inform us, that is the clutch half, proper?
Robert: Proper. Proper.
Chris: Nicely, how do you do inform them, Robert?
Robert: Proper. [Laughter] Thanks, Chris.
You inform them by placing just a little directive on the high of your part file that is actually in quotes “use shopper” in a lot of the identical method you’ll do “use strict” (for those that are acquainted with that).
Chris: Yeah.
Robert: There is a new directive there which you can put on the high of your file.
Chris: It is awfully bizarre to only see a string sitting there on the high of the file, however it’s legitimate JavaScript.
Robert: Proper.
Chris: So, no matter. You understand?
Robert: Proper. And there is even precedent for it.
Chris: Yeah, there’s precedent.
Robert: There’s a “use strict” directive. However in the event you occur to make use of a prettier and also you need your imports ordered correctly, there is a plugin referred to as Prettier Import Order, or Import Sorter, or one thing like that.
Chris: Yeah, which I give a ten out of ten, and I fricken’ adore it. I hate it when imports are simply random as a result of then you definately’re consistently taking a look at PRs the place individuals simply moved round imports. It’s very irrelevant. Anyway, it is a great little plugin that I am glad exists.
Robert: Proper, and we use it as a result of… Nicely, we use it as a result of it lets us be particular about, like, how we wish issues ordered. Do we wish native imports to seem beneath exterior? Anyway–
Chris: Yeah, precisely.
Robert: It is very configurable, which is nice. The issue was in the event you occur to be working that and you place “use shopper” on the high of your file, it’ll robotically drop it beneath all of your imports and wrap it in parenthesis for causes I do not fairly perceive, which fully disables that performance. Ordering your imports would break your Subsequent.js 13 client-side part. I occur to run into this as a result of I used to be the primary one at CodePen (in engineering right here) to truly be like, “Ah, I will construct one thing with Subsequent.js 13.”
Chris: Yep.
Robert: I bumped into this, and it was like, “Oh, crap! I’ve to be actually cautious about once I contact this file to not hit Command-S,” which is what triggers the Prettier plugin, and let VS Code simply type of quietly auto-save within the background. That received tremendous annoying tremendous fast.
Chris: Yeah. There’s a command. I believe, when you carry up the command pile, you may say, “Save with out formatting,” that at the least you are able to do it on demand. However nonetheless, that is obnoxious, nevertheless it jogs my memory of simply how rippling the open-source group will be.
I do not blame Subsequent.js for this selection that they made, however they did make it, and it is a comparatively bizarre syntax, although there may be precedent for it. Honest sufficient. However now who is aware of what different issues that trigger. It is received to type of do its factor all through the group.
Robert: Proper.
Chris: It is simply humorous. Then who’s left to mop that up? Nicely, I do not know. Some dude in Bend, Oregon, apparently.
Robert: Yeah, so I bumped into it, and I used to be like, “Nicely, let me see what is going on on right here.” Finally, it led to a problem on the Prettier plugin, Prettier Import Kind plugin – no matter it was.
I used to be like, “Nicely…” and there have been like 15 individuals who had already type of preferred or commented on that, and it had been there for a few months since Subsequent 13 got here out. I used to be like, “Nicely, any individual has received to unravel this,” so I type of dug into it.
Chris: Mm-hmm.
Robert: And ended up placing up a PR. Within the 10 days between once I put the PR up and it really ended up getting merged, 15 individuals had hearted it. It was good. I received to truly really feel like I used to be fixing issues not only for me and never only for CodePen, however for a much wider cross-section of the group.
I do not know. That to me is likely one of the explanation why I code. I take pleasure in. I get a visceral type of reward for doing stuff like that.
Chris: Nicely, I am glad you introduced that up as a result of possibly that is… I imply not even possibly. That have to be a part of the gas of open supply anyway.
It is really easy to level in any respect the downsides and the ache and the grumpiness and the shortage of monetization and all that stuff. You are like, “Holy cow! There’s a lot improper with this!” And but, right here it’s current. Why?
And the why is as a result of it is nearly like a dopamine hit for nerds. “I did it!”
Robert: For me the worth that is available in to me from open supply is that once I run into an issue, as of late I can drill down into it, and I can go all the best way. I can go all the best way down, all through the dependency chain to the very backside of the code base, be it some C++ file – or no matter – within the bowels of Node.
I will be like, “Okay, I’ve entry to the complete stack I am sitting on, and I’ve the flexibility to repair it. That is not one thing that used to exist.
Again within the ’80s, pre-open supply being ubiquitous, you’ll get into your stack, you’d drill down, and also you’d run into a large brick wall that Microsoft or Apple or any individual had put up on their working system or no matter know-how you had been sitting on high of. And so, I am profoundly grateful for that.
I’ve type of this self-fulfilling future now. If I’ve an issue, I’ve the flexibility to unravel it, and I did not used to have that. That was intensely irritating.
Chris: Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
Robert: Sorry I went off on a little bit of a tangent there.
Chris: No, I prefer it. I prefer it.
Robert: That for me is the place that type of vitality and drive to have interaction with open supply actually comes from is that appreciation for having the ability to do my very own factor. It is fairly cool.
Chris: A lot of it… A lot of what we have talked about to date is comparatively centered round GitHub and GitHub current, in order that’s attention-grabbing. Though, that was type of a lead-up to say that not all of it, although. There are methods to type of discuss and affect open supply outdoors of it, and I am particularly speaking a few second that it did not fairly result in any PRs or any open tickets or something, however so many firms now have a Discord the place you pop into it.
I have been members of at the least half a dozen of them the place I type of what to see what the group is speaking about and the way they’re dealing with issues and stuff. That got here up recently-ish with us, proper?
Robert: Yeah, I imply that is really a superb level as a result of we’re seeing type of the maturation — I am undecided that is a phrase — the expansion of open-source not simply in adoption but additionally the depth of assist you might have. Today, particularly for bigger tasks, it is fairly widespread to have a web based group that is good there, that is prepared to assist out.
For us, we use Cloudflare, and we have been working with the watcher. Sorry, not the watcher. Sturdy objects.
I had a query about sturdy objects some time again, which was, “What is the lifecycle of the article?” Cloudflare is de facto nice at saying, “Here is the way you create a sturdy object,” however there wasn’t a lot about, “Hey, when does this go away?”
Chris: Yeah. [Laughter] Yeah.
Robert: I believe we alluded to that on the sturdy object podcast some time again, however I ended up type of getting a solution, or at the least a superb a solution as I used to be going to get by going surfing to the Discord group that Cloudflare hosts. There are a whole bunch of individuals in there, together with engineers from Cloudflare, and it is all simply constructed into their Wrangler undertaking and the sturdy object group that they are constructing round their open-source choices there.
Chris: Yeah. Fairly cool. Like I stated, it is not like we had been opening tickets or something. However you nearly accomplish the identical type of factor. You will get an concept seeded into the minds of the people who construct this factor that’s in the end open supply. You understand?
Like, “Oh, look! Persons are really asking about this. Perhaps we should always construct it.” You understand?
Robert: We talked earlier about if you wish to submit a PR asking, “Are you going to be receptive to this?” is type of well mannered, however having a complete group which you can go to, and I believe they really have a options and concepts subchannel in Discord the place you may simply throw concepts on the market of, like, “Hey, is that this one thing that the engineering group behind Wrangler or sturdy objects or staff – or no matter – can be receptive to?”
You’ll be able to type of take the temperature of the group as a complete to these concepts. That is an amazing type of suggestions for any individual who is likely to be concerned about collaborating in these communities.
Chris: Yeah. It is simply attention-grabbing, and I believe it attracts some individuals as a result of there’s just a little little bit of a real-time nature to it that you simply’re like… Generally you are in a rush when you might have a bug.
Robert: Yeah.
Chris: There’s some likelihood that in the event you use the Discord mannequin that you simply’re helped faster than you is likely to be in the event you simply publish one thing on a discussion board or on GitHub or no matter. It is not at all times true. [Laughter] You would possibly hear again eight hours later, however I am certain that helps them get just a little adoption.
Robert: Yeah, or eight months. [Laughter]
Chris: Yeah. [Laughter]
Robert: If it is one in every of my tasks. [Laughter] I’ll confess; I am not tremendous good at responding in a well timed method.
Chris: Yeah.
Robert: These of you which have run into my tasks, I am sorry. [Laughter]
Chris: Yeah. All good. Nicely, this has been a really attention-grabbing dialog. I wished to speak about issues not too broadly as a result of, like I say, [laughter] it is arduous to breach the subject of open supply typically. It is extra attention-grabbing to speak about little particular issues as examples. I believe we did that.
Robert: Yeah. All proper.
Chris: Yeah. Rock-n-roll. We’ll get you again once more. We now have another matters we’re scoping out, so look ahead to listening to Robert in all probability yet another time earlier than our break.
I do not suppose I’ve talked about it on the present, however clearly, we’re actually near 400. We’ll stand up to 400 after which simply take just a little tiny break for this present whereas we end up … undertaking.
Robert: I would like podcast 404. I would like that quantity.
Chris: Oh, yeah.
Robert: [Laughter]
Chris: Oh, man. Or possibly it simply goes as much as 403 and then–
Robert: It’s going to simply be useless air. It’s going to be a half-hour of silence.
Chris: Yeah.
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Robert: Robert Not Discovered. [Laughter]
Chris: Oh… We’re simply the right firm to do this, I believe.
Robert: Yeah.
Chris: All proper. We’ll discuss to you later. See ya.
Robert: All proper. Take care, man.
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