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I remember reading Atwood's blog around the time he launched it, and from his writing, he seemed genuine in his desire to build a tool that would help developer
by pdntspa 2y ago
I remember reading Atwood's blog around the time he launched it, and from his writing, he seemed genuine in his desire to build a tool that would help developers write code. This was also right in the middle of the original gamification craze, so of course internet points lol
- DanielHB 2y agoI remember reading his rants about just how bad the current situation was (which was a terrible website called "developers exchange" or public phpBB internet forums). Never underestimate the passion derived from sheer hatred of the status quo. Also his backup strategies around 2008 were quite interesting.
- cyberax 2y ago> "developers exchange" It was "expertsexchange.com" initially. Then they disambiguated it by renaming to "experts-exchange.com", just to be clear.
- voidmain0001 2y agoAwesome! I didn't know that about the domain name.
- smitelli 2y agoAh yes, perpetually flagged by every corporate firewall that did substring keyword matching on DNS queries. Incidentally, the amount of sheer content-masking garbage on their pages was what originally prompted me to install and learn (IIRC) Greasemonkey and a bunch of DOM/CSS stuff.
- pdntspa 2y agoAh, good ol' Expert Sex Change I don't miss that site one bit!