Monday 7th October, 2019 #
- The Off-the-Radar Baseball League That’s Trying to Reboot the Game - Pretty interesting article, some baseball leagues are experimenting with rule changes with the aim of changing the pace and quality of the game, similar things have happened recently in football (what they call soccer in america), the stealing first base rule is kinda wild, some of the other rules do make sense, but I feel a parallel with web development, like the pitcher who played through the minor leagues for 10 years only to make it into the majors and have a rule change potentially end his career, kind of like GDPR and other bullshit regulations that are crushing the internet, but for baseball
- Governments around the world seems to be targeting encryption - I am no expert but what it appears to boil down to is whether keeping secrets in our societies is OK, and if so who is allowed to keep secrets
- Interesting discussion between Matt Mullenweg (Wordpress, Automattic) and David Heinemeier Hansson (Ruby on Rails, Basecamp) discuss Wordpress market share, monopolies and power in OSS - I think Wordpress is phenomenal software, I would love to build websites using Wordpress, but it’s written in PHP and I’m a NodeJS guy, I think it would be pretty rad if Automattic built a Wordpress entirely in Ruby and also of course one in NodeJS - forget or perhaps de-focus market dominance and help build out the entire web ecosystem - How can some of us non-PHP developers benefit from all the knowledge they have accumulated building Wordpress?