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I'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 shin
by biomcgary 7y ago
I'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.