Thanks Matt for sharing the podcast.
Author, Creator of Ruby on Rails, Founder & CTO at Basecamp & HEY
Nailed it! (via @whyarentucoding / https://t.co/W1UcV56f5X). https://t.co/gZewCQBuGk
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. https://t.co/1ziAW0FaSa
Thanks Matt for sharing the podcast.
Hi Matt – great conversation. I can see both sides of the story but I also believe nothing is either good or bad. It all depends how it’s used. So money can be use for good or bad. Influence can be used for good or bad.
Personally, I love how WordPress is used as a open source optimizer and democratizer.
I am currently building a global digital nation working remotely around the world, connecting top professionals with full-time, stable remote work they can do from anywhere. Prior to that , I built remote teams on 4 continents for Honeywell Aerospace. My cofounder engineers open source solutions so our platform was build 90% on open source. As a matter of fact, we started 100% on WordPress. Our community now includes over 78,000 professionals from 121 countries, including employees from Fortune 500 and top tech companies. This would be incredibly difficult, if not impossible, if not for open source solutions.
The other week I ended up going back and forth in tweets with David Heinemeier Hansson, it wasn’t going anywhere but he graciously invited me to their podcast and we were able to expand the d…
Hotwire, Stimulus, and Turbo have moved to a new domain. You can now find them at https://t.co/ybyRh3VOcL. The code remains at https://t.co/bGAfkwNhhD.
"Open source is a like magical waltz between strangers. We have to find our dancing feet together, and quickly, because otherwise it’s awkward." https://t.co/QrQcf7Y3Uu
After two decades of open source participation, I’ve found it easier to cultivate community collaboration around software that’s obviously a little broken. Waiting until the project is pristine before sharing it with the world creates an aura of perfection that intimidates and alienates. So releasing before every bug has been squashed,...
Turbo v7.0.0-beta.8 released. https://t.co/JNujvieo0q https://t.co/nuLiAZykI3
"Taken all together, even just this promise of a chance to strike at the heart of big tech and end their reign of abuse is invigorating. It’s far more than I could ever have hoped for when I showed to testify before the House Antitrust Subcommittee." https://t.co/BPFrFiBrfM
"It's not that you have to rewrite everything from scratch all the time, but taking the effort to ensure that new code can be written to the best of your abilities is key to enjoying the work." https://t.co/9J2hpzkZm0
"There's also simply no way users are going to willingly accept the premise of spy pixels if Apple presents the privacy dangers as clearly and as honestly as we've done in HEY." https://t.co/ioZtxTuKBN
It always seems impossible until it’s done. And few fights have demonstrated this more than that against the monopoly abuses of big tech. For over a decade, the likes of Google, Apple, Amazon, and Facebook have been able to get away with murder in digital markets without fear of consequences. Wrapping their tentacles ever more forceful...
"If HEY had just been a modest, slow-growing business, we probably could have juggled both with a team the size of what we were. But it isn't, so we can't. HEY has signed up far more customers, far faster, than any new product we've ever launched before." https://t.co/ypgpI1tvDe
Hotwire is now powering Basecamp 3 on the alpha version we're running internally, and I thought it'd be helpful to document the upgrade process. Although upgrading is perhaps a big word. It's not like we rewrote all the JavaScript we have to make this happen. Coexisting is probably a better term. While existing JavaScript code stays as...
"Enter Basecamp 4. For the past year or so, we've been in preproduction, while we've been riding the wild wave of success that has been HEY.. So another rewrite, yeah? No." https://t.co/2sBma6decS
"We needed a support tool, and we hadn't built one, so we found ourselves paying for it many, many times over anyway. Inertia is a powerful force. It took living with HEY's Post Office to realize how badly we needed such a tool for Basecamp." https://t.co/mihg6YuXeR
"So far proponents of targeted ads have been able to claim that actually many people like to be tracked because getting "relevant ads" is totally worth handing over all your personal data. The results from reality are in. 96% don't. Ban targeted ads now." https://t.co/vl6Ng7XpFA
"Can you imagine trying to submit an app for a new system called the web today? If the web hadn't existed prior to the iPhone, there's no way in hell Apple would ever have approved a browser with unfettered, unfiltered access today. No way." https://t.co/fz0DkmwtqP
There's no advocacy as effective as competition. I could have yelled and screamed about email spy pixels till I was blue in the face, but it was building a serious set of defenses into HEY that turned the argument into action. And now the entire email tracking industry is about to be turned upside down, as Apple has announced they'll f...
"That idea of being done was the most compelling part of receiving a print newspaper. Most people are just not going to go back to print, though. That doesn't mean you have to give up on done. I've been trying a new experiment, and you might like it too." https://t.co/mfo4j9oh7I
Here's the story about how we made HEY's The Feed so much faster: https://t.co/0XCtWNZhQj https://t.co/hUrgITV3Yh