Basecamp’s David Heinemeier Hansson (the creator of Ruby on Rails) announced on Twitter this week that “all the tricks and tooling we used to build the front-end for Hey.com” have now been released as Hotwire (also known as New Magic), “an alternative approach to building modern web applications without using much JavaScript by sending HTML instead of JSON over the wire.”…
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Indian Startups Explore Alliance and Alternative App Store To Fight Google’s ‘Monopoly’
Google, which reaches more internet users than any other firm in India and commands 99% of the nation’s smartphone market, has stumbled upon an odd challenge in the world’s second-largest internet market: Scores of top local entrepreneurs. From a report: More than 150 startups and firms in India are working to form an alliance and toying with the idea of launching…
Satellite data helps climbers ascend Mt. Everest
Data from ESA’s Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellite help climbers negotiate a treacherous glacier on the route to Mt. Everest’s summit. Source: https://earthsky.org/earth/mt-everest-climbers-use-satellite-data-khumbu-icefall-copernicus-sentinel-2…
Is Twitter Shifting the Balance of Power From Companies to Their Employees?
Last week leaked audio surfaced of investors arguing that journalists have too much power. But the Verge’s Silicon Valley editor asks, “What if you take the whole discussion of “tech versus journalism” and reframe it as ‘managers versus employees’? Then, I think, you get closer to the truth of what’s going on.”
After all, this conflict started with employees. They were the…
Hey Email App Open To All After Apple ‘Definitively’ Approves It
Basecamp’s Hey email app is now open to everyone after Apple “definitively approved” it for the App Store. No invite code is required for users to sign up. Engadget reports: Basecamp CTO and co-founder David Heinemeier Hansson tweeted the news today. Hey will not include any in-app purchases (IAP), so Apple will not get its standard 30 percent commission. At first,…
David Heinemeier Hansson Explains What It Takes to Write Great Code
The “bespoke development” site Evrone.com (an IT outsourcing company) interviewed Ruby on Rails creator David Heinemeier Hansson (who is also co-founder and CTO of Basecamp — and a racecar driver) shortly before he spoke at RubyRussia, Evrone’s annual Moscow programming conference. And they asked him an interesting question. As a man who’s seen lots of Ruby code, “what makes code good…