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1 Dec

@tobi

From @tobi’s time on the core team through Shopify’s continued contributions to the framework, this is one hell of a company to have in Rails’ corner. And now that they’ve gone all-in on remote, you really should give these open positions a look, if you’re looking for a new job!

https://twitter.com/shopifydata/status/1333835311194009601

It’s safe to say that Shopify is pushing the absolute frontier of what’s possible with Rails and Ruby. Their main majestic monolith is a staggering 2.8m lines of Ruby responsible for processing over $100m in sales per hour at peak 🤯. And they’re doing it running latest Rails 🥂

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What’s equally satisfying is how @tobi has managed to build a business worth more than a hundred billion dollars by providing the tooling for an open and free web of independent merchants. In this age of big tech monopoly grabs, that alone is worth wild applauds.

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27 Nov

Been working on documentation and the pitch for NEW MAGIC this week. It's quite something how we ended up taking a completely different turn from the rest of the industry. This could scarcely be more different.

And, as with all the framworks we create at Basecamp, this too was born out of need and extraction. What's the kind of tooling that would allow us to deliver HEY across six major platforms with a small team and have fun at the same time? This is the answer.

So much of technology is a reflection of the environment in which it was created. A huge company with large teams full of specialists will create something completely different from what a small company full of generalists will.

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25 Nov

https://twitter.com/dhh/status/1331266225675137024

This reminded me that I needed to recommend the fantastic book The Management Myth by Matthew Stewart. In it, you get the bullshit history of Scientific Management, along with an exposé on just the kind of fraud that its popularizer, F. Winslow Taylor. indiebound.org/book/978039333…

https://twitter.com/dhh/status/1331266225675137024

Management consultant charlatans have tried to apply scientific methods to the monitoring of employees for well over a hundred years. It's a field that's built on a foundation of scientism, used to demean and abuse workers, and inflate the ego of a useless managerial class.

And that's exactly what Microsoft is promoting here. Ranking and outing employees on bullshit metrics. I'm sure there's a plan to integrate Lines of Code Written via Github soon enough. Makes about as much sense as counting mentions or chat hours or whatever the fuck else.

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25 Nov

@nytimes

The amount of trackers and third-party cookies that @nytimes subjects even paying readers to is obscene. The fact you have to call or email individual trackers to opt-out is grotesque. Perfect example of where "transparency" is a shield for "wtf". nytimes.com/privacy/cookie…

Take Chartbeat, for example. If you'd like to opt-out of tracking from them on NYT, just: "We will work to respond to your Valid Request within 45 days of receipt. We will not charge you a fee for making a Valid Request.. call us at.. email us at..." 🤯

Or Sumo Logic: "CCPA provides California consumers the right to.. to delete their personal information, to opt out of any “sales” that may be occurring.. California consumers may make a rights request by contacting us at privacy@sumologic.com."

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23 Nov

Bravo, Reddit! This is the fair way to go 👏 cnn.com/2020/11/23/suc…

This concept of paying people the same when they do the same work at the same level of seniority is at once both radical and obvious. But it’s pushing against ingrained habits, sly negotiation bullshit, and a what-can-we-get-away-with mentality that belongs to a different era.

“There are no negotiated salaries or raises at Basecamp. Everyone in the same role at the same level is paid the same. Equal work, equal pay.” m.signalvnoise.com/how-we-pay-peo…

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23 Nov

While cops in other countries are fighting riots, enforcing curfews, and monitoring armed militias, Danish police has so much excess capacity and calm that three(!!) motorcycle cops are assigned to fine biking parents taking kids to school for minuscule infractions 😂❤️

Every time I’ve been stopped by a cop in the US, it’s been tense. Often with one hand on their gun. The Danish officer had the manners of a flight attendant, the fine is being emailed, and I was on my way before we were even late to school drop-off ✌️🥂

But all the courtesy aside, it’s also just a reflection of what a rule society that Denmark really is. The fine was for turning right on red onto a bike lane with nobody in it. And cop saw no reason not to stop me and the two kids in a damn cargo bike. It was quaint.

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