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bradfitz’s career is inspirational because he has succeeded in prioritizing curiosity. never would have guessed a perl guy who wrote memcached to solve livejour
by tribby 7y ago
bradfitz’s career is inspirational because he has succeeded in prioritizing curiosity. never would have guessed a perl guy who wrote memcached to solve livejournal problems would move on to go - only to walk away for something more interesting. can’t wait to see what comes next.
- biomcgary 7y agoI've followed Brad Fitz over the years because I also started in Perl and ended up in Go. His intellectual curiosity and interest in doing cool things well shines through. He is a great example of the leader-by-example category.
- markstos 7y agoNotable that the word "Perl" appears nowhere in his write up of technical legacy. He was once Chief Architect at Six Apart, developers of the Perl-based Movable Type blogging platform which once rivaled Wordpress.
- bradknowles 7y agoI remember Six Apart and Movable Type. I always wondered what happened to them. Thanks for helping make that connection for me!
- rurban 7y agoIt died when it had that huge, exploitable serialization bug, similar to those other platform serialization bugs those times. Other than it was fine, but personally I preferred my PHP frameworks, which were just better. Not WordPress, WordPress survived it unfortunately.
- chipotle_coyote 7y agoMovable Type isn't dead, except in the sense that every self-hosted blogging platform that isn't WordPress (and possibly Ghost) is dead. MT 7.1.3 was released in November 2019.
- chipotle_coyote 7y agoWhile this is true, he joined Six Apart after they bought LiveJournal. Movable Type was originally developed by Ben and Mina Trott. I suspect that Brad was chiefly working on Six Apart's ill-fated "Vox" hosted blogging platform, which looked an awful lot like an attempt to re-imagine LiveJournal in a more modern (by mid-2000 standards) form.