Viewing profile — jdtig

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…

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 …

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 …

Does Stripe use RoR? The author mentions the codebase was Ruby, but I didn't see if they talked about Rails.

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 fol…

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 w…

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…

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 speaker…