_why's interview with DHH was 15 years ago this week

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Post by schwad » Wed, Dec 18, 2019, 1:38 PM UTC

_why's interview with DHH was 15 years ago this week
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Re: _why's interview with DHH was 15 years ago this week

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Post by Blaiz0r » Wed, Dec 18, 2019, 2:08 PM UTC

Whatever happened with _why?

Re: _why's interview with DHH was 15 years ago this week

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Post by schwad » Thu, Dec 19, 2019, 10:00 AM UTC

Blaiz0r wrote: post #2

Whatever happened with _why?

I'm sure you know much of this, but essentially:

- August 2009, he died. (i.e. removed his entire estate and entity from the web after being doxxed) - He reappeared for one day in 2013, to release a 100 page document on a briefly live printer queue called "CLOSURE" (and a few other potentially unrelated posts such as youtube videos), which can be found here: https://github.com/steveklabnik/CLOSURE - His estate, preserved as much as it can be, is here: https://viewsourcecode.org/why/ - A few months after CLOSURE was released, Steve Klabnik gave a talk on it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaWHVceDbFo

Re: _why's interview with DHH was 15 years ago this week

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Post by schwad » Thu, Dec 19, 2019, 10:29 AM UTC

schwad wrote: post #3

Blaiz0r wrote: post #2

Whatever happened with _why?

I'm sure you know much of this, but essentially: - August 2009, he died. (i.e. removed his entire estate and entity from the web after being doxxed) - He reappeared for one day in 2013, to release a 100 page document on a briefly live printer queue called "CLOSURE" (and a few other potentially unrelated posts such as youtube videos), which can be found here: https://github.com/steveklabnik/CLOSURE - His estate, prese…

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