I'm at Fog Creek, and we're introducing Gomix
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I'm at Fog Creek, and we're introducing Gomix
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Re: I'm at Fog Creek, and we're introducing Gomix
#2I really like the spirit of this, and I hate to be the gnu in the room, but the only thing holding this back is that it's centralised.
Again, I totally get how that might sound stupid. "How can we have nice things if we always need to solve the decentralisation problem first?", is one of a billion reasonable responses to my comment, but I'm just a guy who has gotten his heart broken before by the likes of Geocities, which they reference directly in the Overview video.
I trust FogCreek a lot more than I ever trusted Yahoo!, but I still never stray too far from the sidewalk anymore.
Re: I'm at Fog Creek, and we're introducing Gomix
#3This looks like a slightly upgraded Mozilla Thimble https://thimble.mozilla.org
Re: I'm at Fog Creek, and we're introducing Gomix
#4I found this post with examples of things recently built with gomix quite illustrative:
https://medium.com/gomix/what-can-you-build-on-gomix-557e380...
Re: I'm at Fog Creek, and we're introducing Gomix
#5Amazed me to read the part of Joel's side of this where he talks about the staff counts at Stack Overflow and Trello. I remember the early days of his blog, SO, and when Trello was announced. Now Trello has 100 staff and SO has 300.
https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2016/12/06/anil-dash-is-the-n...
Re: I'm at Fog Creek, and we're introducing Gomix
#6I love Fog Creek and use Trello daily. I'm your target audience. If you could make this self-hosted i.e. on my own company's intranet secure servers, I would pay a lot for it.
Re: I'm at Fog Creek, and we're introducing Gomix
#7This looks like a slightly upgraded Mozilla Thimble https://thimble.mozilla.org
They're both online editors that use the word "remix", but that's really it.
Mozilla Thimble is a HTML/CSS/JS learning tool. It's frontend only and doesn't have realtime collaboration.
Gomix is backend and frontend. It's collaborative, so a team can work on it at the same time. They're looking to change how teams work together by replacing version control. It also deploys instantly, so there's no saving/uploading/pushing/etc.
Source: https://learning.mozilla.org/blog/introducing-the-new-thimbl... and https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2016/05/31/introducing-hyperd...
Re: I'm at Fog Creek, and we're introducing Gomix
#8First Joel is brilliant. I love the idea. However,
"Set up your Alexa skill in your Amazon developer account."
"TWILIO_ACCOUNT_SID and TWILIO_AUTH_TOKEN - available from https://www.twilio.com/user/account/settings"
...
Things have changed since 99. The walled gardens are up. Credit cards are required everywhere. I hope the 'casual' programmer can fill out all these forms and not be scared by AUTH_TOKENS. I wish gomix had a pool of community accounts. (eg for Twilio where you get like 100 free texts and you just hack on).
Re: I'm at Fog Creek, and we're introducing Gomix
#9A few years ago I got into the habit of using alternate languages to HTML, CSS, and Javascript---namely Pug, Stylus, and Coffeescript---and I'm physically unable to use the originals any more. Are these supported by Gomix?
Re: I'm at Fog Creek, and we're introducing Gomix
#10A few years ago I got into the habit of using alternate languages to HTML, CSS, and Javascript---namely Pug, Stylus, and Coffeescript---and I'm physically unable to use the originals any more. Are these supported by Gomix?
That doesn't get in your way for finding jobs?