jdtig

5 ms·

1.
by jdtig 2y ago
I don't think the point of the article is that everything was intentional. He leads with the differentiators from WordPress because WordPress alternatives are a big conversation at the moment. This is a chance to inform people about ho
2.
by jdtig 2y ago
Well, WordPress made it 20+ years without a huge fuss over the fact that everything was controlled by Matt. And it only happened now because Matt himself blew things up! Ghost has been lucky that their own conflict of interest hasn't b
3.
Plain – A Reimagined Fork of Django(plainframework.com)
5 points by jdtig 2y ago|1 comments
4.
by jdtig 2y ago
Thanks. I wonder what the experience is like working on a very large codebase with or without a framework. E.g. Stripe vs Shopify. Or if the framework is barely noticeable at that scale and doesn't really matter anymore. That's th
5.
by jdtig 2y ago
Does Stripe use RoR? The author mentions the codebase was Ruby, but I didn't see if they talked about Rails.
6.
by jdtig 2y ago
Many writing systems of Southeast Asia borrowed this idea and work quite similarly as a result. Here's Burmese, which also writes vowels on all four sides of the consonant they follow: ကာ - ka ကီ - ki ကူ - ku ကေ - ke ကို - ko ကော - kaw
7.
by jdtig 3y ago
The bird on the vessel in Burmese is called a "hintha" (ဟင်္သာ), a common symbolic element in Burmese and other Southeast Asian cultures. Fun fact: Many European languages have a word derived from the same root. It's χήν in G
8.
by jdtig 3y ago
I can agree that the Paiboon romanization (g/k, b/bp/b, d/dt/t) is probably the most intuitive for English-speakers. But it's silly to say that it's the best system just because it is easiest for people li
9.
by jdtig 3y ago
You think that /k/ sounds like /g/, because you speak a language (English) that doesn't distinguish them. However, I imagine that writing "k" for /k/ makes perfect sense to speakers of languages