dreamdu5t

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Became a hacker after learning to read, sold my first company when I was 10, and started a VC fund at 13. I program for breakfast, create disruptive companies for lunch, and eat PhDs for dinner. While asleep, I generate passive-income and dream of my next TED talk.

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Comment · 8 years ago

It’s on the web like Facebook is on the web.

I can’t post or reply by creating a web page, and identity is not email or dns, but specific to whatever mastadon instance I register with.

I already have a domain, blog, and email. Posts, replies, likes, etc. But mastadon doesn’t work with the web, or my existing web identity - instead it’s entirely based on federated ActivityPub servers plus various extensions.

Comment · 8 years ago

Am I the only one that hates that the “fediverse” is not on the web?

We didn’t need a separate protocol/app and closed servers to do what are actually just blog posts and replies.

Comment · 8 years ago

Tim should put his money where his mouth is!

He posts on Twitter instead of his own blog. Saving the web is pretty simple: post to your own blog and stop using closed silos like Facebook and Twitter. Support IndieWeb tech instead of calling for government regulation.

Also, why is Facebook considered the web? Unless you’re a member the content isn’t accessible. Facebook exposes practically no HTML on the web at all.

Comment · 8 years ago

Again. Hyperbole. We’re adults here. Who are you trying to convince with that crap?

No, Facebook is a website. They aren’t involved in genocide. They aren’t why Trump is president.

Comment · 8 years ago

Hyperbole. Facebook is a free website... A website.

Burying competitors is a good thing. That’s the whole point. That’s literally the objective of every business in the entire economy.

Comment · 8 years ago

It’s terrifying that people want to use the government to regulate a free website that nobody even has to use and which has not actually caused anyone harm.

GDPR tyrants: get a life and stop using Facebook. Seriously.

Comment · 8 years ago

It doesn’t matter how many words people write and how many times they say “disruption” Uber is still just a taxi company.

Comment · 8 years ago

We have them. HTML/HTTP work great, but the DOM and JS APIs are out of control, and their surface area has no end in sight.

The web actually works great without JS, and doesn’t require gigs of memory to browse.

Every month there’s some new JS API being proposed or developed for browsers, with no care for its impact on the web. The JS APIs are still growing and only getting more complicated too! service workers is a perfect example of the problem. Offline browsing worked great 20 fucking years ago, but now multithreaded Turing complete programming languages have to be used to view a website offline. It’s absolutely absurd.

Comment · 8 years ago

If engineers fear being on call it means the software isn't properly engineered and development processes have failed. Because if a service is properly engineered to maintain availability, being on-call is a small burden because downtime is a rare occurrence.

However it's often the case that "on-call" means ship broken software and fix bugs after hours.

Comment · 8 years ago

Serverless was never a thing. There are servers, whatever you want to call the them.

Observing coworkers spend weeks setting up serverless stacks, for not needing a server they sure spent a lot of time configuring their tools...

But obviously the next thing is codeless, which is WYSIWYG all over again. Kind of like how serverless was the cloud all over again.