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James Brown got his big break as a Little Richard impersonator. Hendrix got his start playing guitar in Little Richard’s band. The Beatles formed around his work. Bob Dylan and Freddie Mercury began with his music. It’s impossible to overstate Little Richard’s influence.
The other masterful thing Little a Richard did in the 80s was to stop the show, repeatedly, at the biggest events in the music industry, and claim his deserved recognition from an industry that never gave him proper credit. This blew my mind as a kid:
Legends recognize legends.
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For non-coders, a little explanation of why mobile apps from Google, Spotify, Apple, NYT, Venmo, Walmart and many others all broke for a little while this afternoon. (Short version: they all use code from Facebook, so when that broke, they all started crashing.)
A little context: one surprising thing about programmers is they all regularly, routinely make use of code written by strangers on the internet, often even code written by people who work at competitors. This is the magic of “open source” and it’s kind of amazing.
But there’s also a way that companies try to use open source to extend their influence or dominance in the market. In this case, Facebook absolutely wants every app on the internet to use FB for login, since that will make both the other companies & their users dependent on FB.
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Just watching @natfriedman on the #GitHubSatellite feed, really curious to see what's announced today as the GH team seems to be on a roll lately.
"In the age of social distancing, people are turning to social coding." I like that line. :) (Obligatory plug for @GlitchDevs and awesome ways to use GitHub + Glitch together, like in deployment: dev.to/glitch/automat… )
Talking about how GitHub is focusing on community, including ways to have conversations & even say thanks. GitHub Discussions is designed to be a "town square". (Nat mentions giving thanks — we think gratitude is so important, we built it into Glitch!) medium.com/glitch/no-than…
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Lots of attention has (deservedly!) been given to No Code tools. But what if we combined the simplicity of those tools with the undeniable power of real code, without adding the complexity of the big cloud services platforms? We could call it "Yes Code": linkedin.com/pulse/code-gre…
We've been thinking about this one for a while, and though this is a little overly-simplistic, this is a quick contrasting of the No Code and Yes Code approaches. (To be clear: Both are awesome, and deeply necessary. But neither is sufficient on its own.) A simple comparison of No Code and Yes Code approaches to creation shows that No Code emphasizes simplicity and providing integrated tools, while Yes Code emphasizes open-endedness and the ability to connect to, or re-use, existing developer tools. Both are great for making a better internet.
Probably obvious, but: @Glitch is a Yes Code tool. The biggest barrier to regular people building a better internet is not writing code — it's the arbitrary technical and social barriers constructed around coding. If we can tear those down, millions of people are ready to create.
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