The saying 'nobody ever got fired for buying IBM' is at its essence about risk management. The traditional wisdom goes that if you buy from a big company, you're going to be safe. It may be more expensive, but big companies project an image of stability and reliability, so buying…

“As humans, I think we're constantly looking for a cheat code.” – DHH

Full episode — A Matter of Ambition — with David and Jason Fried is out now. Stay tuned for part 2!
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That simply can’t happen with Campfire since you host it, you get all the code, and you store and own your own data. No rugs can be pulled. And it’s just $399/once.

Looking forward to having you as a Campfire customer.

Gotta love that California cloudy fog.

Couldn't agree more. If I can't find an aesthetically pleasing way of doing it, I'd usually rather not. The intrinsic motivation derived from a beautiful paragraph of prose or method of code is what still propels me.

The microservices craze was perhaps the purest example of a ZIRP. Roosevelt couldn't have designed a better full-employment program for programmers if he tried.

Dividing programmers into application makers and framework/library builders is bullshit. Every application programmer ought to aspire to contribute to their tool chain. The more tool code looks like app code, the easier that becomes.

'An explosion of sanctimony, triggered by the fallacy that racial disparities in the office (and elsewhere) could only be explained by systemic racism. And, worse still, that the way to counteract this mirage was by compensatory discrimination.' world.hey.com/dhh/dei-is-don…

It's over. (Thank heavens.) businessinsider.com/woke-capitalis…

This is the real hydraulic press that Apple uses to squeeze out all life, color, and creativity of developers. Not inanimate objects, but flesh and blood.

We are live with this Q&A now.

While I've been warming to Microsoft a lot, there's a funny analysis of TypeScript that's classic embrace-extend-defoul. Vanilla JavaScript, free of a trillion npm dependencies and TS compiling, is a beautiful language these days. I have no hesitation saying: I LIKE JAVASCRIPT!

Never seen a better ad for ditching TypeScript. You don't have to live like this!!

We've open sourced a simple tool to help control requests to your Rails app, during an incident scenario.

Introducing Mission Control - Web.

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Just a month to go until Le Mans 2024! Here's the lineup for our #24: motorsportweek.com/2024/05/06/rei…

'The real story is just how little saved up goodwill Apple had in the bank to compensate for the outrage. They've lost the presumption of good faith over the last 5 years with an ever-larger group of people, and now we've reached a tipping point.' world.hey.com/dhh/hating-app…