Travis

@travisbell
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🇨🇦 Founder of The Movie Database (TMDB).
Websitehttps://www.themoviedb.org/u/travisbell
GitHubhttps://github.com/travisbell
Interesting info on Shopify and the latest rubygems controversy. To me, the most interesting bit is how Tobi is the primary driver of Ruby adoption (to the dissatisfaction of some staff), which makes Ruby even more tenuous than I’d previously thought, and thus more dependent on Rails. Dang. https://byroot.github.io/opensource/ruby/2025/10/09/dear-rubyists.html
Dear Rubyists: Shopify Isn’t Your Enemy

I’ve been meaning to write a post about my perspective on Open Source and corporate entities. I already got the rough outline of it; however, I’m suffering from writer’s block, but more importantly, the whole post is a praise of how Shopify engages with Open Source communities. Hence, given the current climate, I don’t think I could publish it without addressing the elephant in the room first anyway.

byroot’s blog
@openvibe RSS support is great and all but is it really necessary to push a notification about it, a few times a week? After the 10th notification about it, I get it, you support RSS… 😰
@Transbian_Arsonists Or even…
John (@[email protected])

The more I roll it around in my mouth, the more certain I am that the "AI" mania *perfectly* encapsulates neoliberalism in its entirety. - doesn't work and never has - steals everything around it - produces nothing of value - destroys all things with actual value - lies - creates the illusion of efficiency while vastly increasing both monetary and social costs - is supported by militant zealots with tiny minds and hearts - enriches a tiny group of individuals at the cost of destroying Earth

Dice.camp
If only this was an exaggeration.

The untold history of web development:

1990: HTML invented.
1994: CSS invented to fix HTML.
1995: JS invented to fix HTML/CSS.
2006: jQuery invented to fix JS.
2010: AngularJS invented to fix jQuery.
2013: React invented to fix AngularJS.
2014: Vue invented to fix React & Angular.
2016: Angular 2 invented to fix AngularJS & React.
2019: Svelte 3 invented to fix React, Angular, Vue.
2019: React hooks invented to fix React.
2020: Vue 3 invented to fix React hooks.
2020: Solid invented to fix React, Angular, Svelte, Vue.
2020: HTMX 1.0 invented to fix React, Angular, Svelte, Vue, Solid.
2021: React suspense invented to fix React, again.
2023: Svelte Runes invented to fix Svelte.
2024: jQuery still used on 75% of websites.

(By https://twitter.com/fireship_dev)

#Web #Development #HTML #CSS #JavaScript #React #ReactJS #JQuery #Svelte #Angular #AngularJS

Fireship (@fireship_dev) on X

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I don’t.. uh.. ya.

Signal is a nonprofit. But what does this mean in practice? Today we do something most tech co’s avoid: talk money. What does it cost for Signal to play in a lane dominated by billion $ corporations, while rejecting the surveillance business model?

https://signal.org/blog/signal-is-expensive/

Privacy is Priceless, but Signal is Expensive

Signal is the world’s most widely used truly private messaging app, and our cryptographic technologies provide extra layers of privacy beyond the Signal app itself. Since launching in 2013, the Signal Protocol—our end-to-end encryption technology—has become the de facto standard for private commu...

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You can pry this iPhone 13 mini from my cold, dead hands! *

* Or probably next upgrade cycle if there's a really good trade-in deal.