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I'd like to congratulate Aaron Horwath on publishing this article. As a creative professional, he must feel pride in bringing his ideas to light. Unfortunatel
by jgerrish 1mo ago
I'd like to congratulate Aaron Horwath on publishing this article. As a creative professional, he must feel pride in bringing his ideas to light.
Unfortunately, this isn't the movie industry. We don't see a list of credits at the end of his commentary recognizing the thousands of others involved in helping him publish his thoughts.
Perhaps we can all chip in and name some of the many people involved in building the tech stack he published with. I'm sure there are THOUSANDS without even looking at the previous technologies those things like blogging platforms, current browsers or current generation phones built from.
Is that fair enough?
I'm not sad. As I look out to the next few weeks and whatever, I'm not sad. Hopefully those credits will help others also not be sad.
Here's to WordPress and Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little.
- jLaForest 1mo agoMatt burned any leftover good will a long time ago
- jgerrish 1mo agoDo the credits in a movie stop on a name and shame? Maybe some future one will, just to prove this wrong. But most of them let those millions of unheard of crew members, unknown but still important, point to their name proudly when they're watching it with their family and friends. They realize creative works are built on a mountain of contributions. People who may be going through tough times right now due to rising anti-tech feelings. People who have heard one too many "evil developer" jokes. I don't really want to do this unaccountable work either. But here's another: I don't have view source on my phone. I'm guessing maybe jQuery too? Thank you John Resig.
- treszkai 1mo agoTo roll with this idea: soon the credits will include more names like Sol and Opus 5 and various pointy-haired bosses than names like Mike Little. That's not very encouraging either.