I agree, in general, with my friend on the other side of the room.
Passionate.
Fully Engaged.
Partially Hydrogenated.
Always Filling, Never Fulfilling.
I've joined EnterpriseDB as a Developer Advocate.
A title that sounds like a lawyer, but... it isn't. Certainly NOTHING like the classic "Devil's Advocate", for instance.
If pressed to find a Latin title to compare to, I'd pick "guardian ad litem", but... Since I'm not, I won't.
A leap of faith in the ability of selflessness to triumph over greed, democracy is a protocol built on hope. Hope that, together, we can build a better society in spite of our obvious failings.
#RenewDemocracy
Interested in your take,
@jlericson@pekkagaiser@Rogue__Leader
Web dev encountering contenteditable: "I can set one attribute and get rich text editing for FREE?"
no, just some primitive behaviors with which to build...
"FREE BUILT-IN WORD-STYLE WYSIWYG?!"
no, it's not that easy, you see..
"FREE MAGIC GOODNESS WITH ZERO EFFORT?!!"
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And the reason Twitter is struggling, the reason they've repeatedly looked like chumps back on their heels over the past decade... Is they cannot seem to admit that the hard thing they're doing is... Also a very human thing, a thing that every society has either done or died from
They desperately WANT it to be novel. For this Internet Society to be something new and different. Because... That means maybe they won't have to pay the piper once this dance is done.
But it isn't, and soon they will. They're realizing that now, I think. But I'm not sure...