20 years ago, I created the Danish gaming site Daily Rush with @mwittrock – inside a startup accelerator called Prey4, complete with fantastical projections of world domination 😂 – but now it's the end, after the proprietor of many years died in 2018. dailyrush.dk/dailyrush/dail…
Daily Rush was the culmination of years of using the web to do gaming journalism. I started Konsollen all the way back in 1995, then ran Quake3.dk for years in anticipation of Id's shooter, then worked at a web portal, then Daily Rush.
This was how I got into web development, project management, organizing, writing, publishing, and how I met lifelong friends. What a wonderful time. But most good things come to an end. We should all be so lucky to see something we help set in the sea brave the waves for 20 yrs!
It's awesome to see the Internet Archive snapshots from all the way back to the early months of the site. Web design anno 2000 😍
The memory lane trip on the Internet Archive goes all the way back to the precursor to Daily Rush, that Quake3.dk site. Here's a snapshot from 1999! Complete with all the news written by yours truly 😄
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Beyond depressing that the new US administration might well draw key personnel from amongst the architects, implementers, and executors of these oppressive regimes.
I like Twitter as a publishing tool. Far less keen on it as a debate forum.
It’s great that we now have some tooling to reclaim our attention when publishing (by limiting direct replies), but as long as quote tweeting links back to your words, it’s still fucked. Plenty of topics I don’t want to post on and have randos bootstrap their shit off.
I’d much prefer to use Twitter primarily as a way to follow people I’ve chosen to follow. No algorithmic suggestions or prodding. No rabbit holes of “debate” within them. Like a mailing list! Or maybe that’s indeed why mailing lists are taking off...
There's a sociology phd study in the replies on this thread. The freakout spectrum spans "why? it's just a word!" to "I traced this back to latin, and actually..." to "the MILLIONS spent on this could feed poor kids". Logic pretzels abound.
The reason I enjoy programming is the ability to sweat the words. Literally delivered a whole keynote centered on the idea that programming is writing. Master just wasn't a good one, so we replaced it with a better one! 🌈✨
Funny thing is that this change didn't even require any sweating. Total, uncontroversial no-brainer that was signed off in about 10 seconds by the Rails core team.
Tailwind CSS for Rails allows you to use Tailwind without setting up the entire JavaScript build pipeline, but still take advantage of purging for production. github.com/rails/tailwind…
I'm really interested in exploring just how far we can push the envelope on developing modern Rails apps without needing to setup the whole honking JavaScript build pipeline. Now we got Hotwire for in-browser ES6/ESM and Tailwind with pipeline purging. Looking pretty sharp!
Also, shoutout to @adamwathan for creating such a lovely css framework! It's been a long time since I've really had fun playing with CSS. I'm spoiled with incredible designers at Basecamp. But if I had to build something myself? I'd most likely use Tailwind! ✌️❤️
New Arendt biography made me think of Heller's account in "Hannah Arendt: A Life in Dark Times" re: the reaction Arendt faced after reporting on Eichmann in Jerusalem. How she was rendered a pariah for questioning the notion of inherent, irredeemable evil. Deeply relevant today.
Once you've convinced yourself of the other sides inherent, irredeemable evil, you've given yourself license to stop thinking critically, and you end up justifying anything and everything to counter that evil. It's indeed a path for dark times.
Highly recommend Heller's biography. Arendt is not only a spectacular writer and thinker, she's also a deeply fascinating human. Impossible to easily box into a certain ideology.
Atlasssian: “Except as otherwise expressly permitted in these Terms, you will not.. publicly disseminate information regarding the performance of the Cloud Products.. or encourage or assist any 3rd party to do any of the foregoing” 😂 #BadPerfIsClassifiedatlassian.com/legal/cloud-te…
This is both insane and hilarious but why stop with classifying poor performance of your app? What about shitty service, is that also a trade secret? 😂
This so warrants an investigative report into what must be truly awful performance. Come on @verge or @motherboard or @wired or whoever 🙏. Please do some deep throat silhouette with distorted voice interviews that goes “it was awful.. so slow.. but we couldn’t say!”