Jordan PetridisNov 6

I wrote a post about DHH fash speedrun and crashout.

DHH and Omarchy: Midlife crisis

https://blogs.gnome.org/alatiera/2025/11/06/dhh-and-omarchy-midlife-crisis/

Crush Fascism.

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DHH and Omarchy: Midlife crisis

Couple weeks ago Cloudflare announced it would be sponsoring some Open Source projects. Throwing money at pet projects of random techbros would hardly be news, but there was a certain vibe behind them and the people leading them. In an unexpected turn of events, the millionaire receiving money from the billion-dollar company, thought it would...

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Show thread☃️karolherbst☃️Nov 6

@alatiera "extremely selective when hiring" oh man.. I think this topic on its own deserves more attention, because isn't it always code for racism, classism (others call it elitism, same thing tho) and exploitation?

Or rather, I have never seen it used in any other meaning 🙃

Anyway, great post.

Show threadJordan PetridisNov 6
@karolherbst Than you. Yea would be cool if someone else with direct experience explored it further.
Show threaddiegoe
@alatiera @karolherbst @karolherbst @alatiera Back then it _usually_ meant hiring on skill/experience/referrals because all these things had just been invented, so academic credentials or long corporate careers were irrelevant. When the skills became more common, the "culture fit" filter was invented, and that quickly became the no-browns-allowed filter
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Show threaddiegoeNov 6
@alatiera @karolherbst Other companies were similar so you can connect the dots why many famous non-whites today, started their careers around that time. I don't think many of them would even get a canned response nowadays
Show thread☃️karolherbst☃️Nov 6

@diegoe @alatiera There is also the aspect of that _some_ companies have to train people so they can become good.

So if a company only hires "the best of the best" you don't train people, meaning you externalize training costs to other companies giving you a financial advantage.

But also if you do it the "you need to be the 5% in school" way you also bias towards upper class people and white folks, because the strongest reason for having good grades are rich parents.

Show threaddiegoeNov 6
@karolherbst @alatiera These kind of hiring was popular back then precisely because it went against the issues you describe. It's just that as soon as talent became more common it all slowly rebuilt back to class/race/externalities
Show threaddiegoeNov 6
@karolherbst @alatiera Most of the current problems with hiring in tech are the same problems that "innovative" tech companies were supposed to avoid. You could even say that when labor has power, employers have to just STFU and give concessions like fairer hiring, benefits, compensation... 👀