Normally I agree, but this is a Lamport talk. His stuff is pretty much always worth engaging with. I have learned more from his writings than nearly any other human in my life.
Not just you… Seems like it might be a Britishism? I think it’s saying something like “construction workers light up SpaceX”, like say bad things about them?
It is a british phrase. I think the most commmon usage is 'put a rocket up their arse, or 'put a rocket under them; It's similar to 'light a fire under'. It means to suggest getting somebody who has been previously sluggish in acting, to act quicker.
Yeah, definitely a common phrase in the UK, basically the sense is that if you put a (firework) rocket up someone's behind and light it, they're going to move pretty damn fast to rectify the situation before the fuse runs out.
Apparently I'm out of the loop, but it took a fair amount of reading to discover that Phoenix is a framework for Elixir. It's only mentioned in passing on the Phoenix project's homepage, very easy to miss.
Just strikes me as odd and makes it less approachable. Most other projects I've encountered present themselves as a part of the language's ecosystem where it seems like it's assumed here. E.g. React calls itself a JavaScript library.
