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founder & ex-ceo @github | publishing games @nullgames | board @computerhistory | board @ladybirdbrowser | building something new @voiddotdev
Joined January 2007
The world needs an independent, open source browser free of corporate interests. Today @awesomekling and I are launching the Ladybird Browser Initiative, a nonprofit focused on @ladybirdbrowser, and my family is donating $1M. Join us in supporting a browser that supports you!.
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Our new repo screen was a total accident! Early on I just threw some repetitive commands in a <pre> to help me quickly create new repos, for testing. After a few weeks we were like. hmm. maybe everyone could use this? Almost 16 years later and it's still the same:
My love language is thoughtfully designed empty states.See: @github's timeless new repo screen with `git` copypasta.
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RIP @AtomEditor. Here's the very first prototype of Atom, originally called Atomicity, in 2008: .
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I created this graph with @Caged. In the 10 years since we launched it, I've hired people with full graphs and people with empty graphs. It doesn't tell you anything about a developer. It's just a fun way to browse activity, and a tool to motivate yourself to hack on OSS.
You're job hunting in 2023 with this kind of Github profile ?. Most newbies don't even understand how much work it'll take to actually succeed at this tech thin.
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This is very, very real. What could have been. .
@defunkt I did come across this gem which was being passed around internally a few years ago. Can't tell if real.
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@Jac5Connor VS Code, C#, TypeScript, Copilot, Xbox⦠all great in my book. Probably a lot more, too. I was a Linux kid in the 90s but have to give them credit.
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@AntoAngelino Our first bug! Just pushed an update that should fix it, thanks for letting me know.
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An empty GitHub profile doesnβt matter if you have a resume, but open source is an amazing way to break into the industry. When I applied as a jr dev to @GameSpot, I had barely any real world experience, but I did have open source code. Coding on @SourceForge got me in the door.
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@AlexKramerBlogs Pfft, we're trying to be innovative here - we charge by line of code. The bigger your game, the more you pay. It's genius!.
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I started programming at 12, but couldn't decide if I wanted to make movies or novels or games or music or code, so I went to college for English. When I found Ruby, I fell in love. Dropped out of school after 1 year and went full time. Moved to SF shortly after.
@defunkt @GameSpot @sourceforge This is awesome! Do you have a CS background?. Also, @dpaola2 started Agency of Learning, a program to help Jr devs which is a program that provides a βprofessionalβ like environment for jrs to work on Open Source.
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So awesome to see Atom's legacy live on in Zed, which is now open source! Just sent a (minor) pull request. I can't help myself:.
Zed is now open source!. Our mission is to revolutionize developer collaboration, building the world's best code editor in the process. After working together in Zed as a small team, it's time to scale up to transform Zed into a collaboration platform.
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Over 14,000 signups in 24 hours! Wow. Anyone who's worked on a game recently knows there must be a better way. Can't wait to show you what we've been building.
In 2007, I wanted a better way to collaborate on software so I cofounded GitHub. We launched in 2008. In 2023, I wanted a better way to build games, soooo. I'm looking forward to sharing something new in 2024.
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We're getting close to sharing with the world. Can't wait to show everyone what we've been working on! RT unrelated.
Former Zynga COO Matthew Bromberg is the new CEO of Unity. The new chief exec will net an annual base salary of $850,000, a litany of stock awards, and sign-on bonus worth $2 million.
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@DrCarlosToscano Anyone with prior programming experience should be able to jump in and get started right away! We'll share specifics in early 2024, but one of our goals is to make it widely accessible to new and seasoned programmers alike.
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Played with @bunjavascript all weekend and it's awesome. Guess what I'm gonna be talking about all day tomorrow. .
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@mitsuhiko When you thought you hired a Python programmer but it's really just three Ruby devs in a trench coat.
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Feels like yesterday, but 20 years ago I supported Firefox 1.0's two-page ad in the NYT:. Very excited about @ladybirdbrowser, especially given everything we've learned in the past few decades.
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@AtomEditor While Atom is gone, its influence lives on. There's no Electron and no VSCode without Atom. I'm really proud of what that team accomplished with such limited resources.
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And of course, if you want to learn more about a project its README is displayed right under its files. An extremely innovative invention that I 100% ripped off of @lighttp. The first time I saw a README under a directory, I knew we had to have that feature. So convenient.
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I hear this a lot too. "git wouldn't have won without GitHub." I disagree. I was a VCS nerd who used hg and darcs long before I ever heard of git. git was just better. GitHub didn't make git the winner - we bet on a winner, and we were right.
@defunkt @SaraJChipps @fat @mdo But anyway, agreed, Github is a major reason that didnβt happen. Obviously Linux is another, but I seriously doubt it would have become the mainstream VCS without Github (and to a lesser extent Bitbucket, which was unable to save Mercurial).
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@AtomEditor Oh, and @NathanSobo is still at it. He's using lessons he learned building Atom to create a faster, more collaborative editor. Check out Zed:
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My first podcast appearance in years, and my first time on @changelog since 2010! With all the Google news lately, it's more clear than ever that we need projects like @ladybirdbrowser.
π New Changelog interview!. π£ Why we need @ladybirdbrowser .π with @awesomekling & @defunkt.π hosts @adamstac & @jerodsanto. π§
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Doesn't @awesomekling know it's impossible to build a web browser?! Apparently not. Amazing progress this month! The GPU speedups are super impressive, especially on that website at the end with the big CSS animation.
π΄ Ladybird browser update (November 2023). Some highlights:.π₯ Huge speed-ups on JS benchmarks from JIT optimizations.π₯ Progress on GPU rendering, getting closer to feature parity with CPU.β€οΈ Small demo by my wife β¦@KatalinKultβ©. β¦and more! π€ππ.
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Really excited about Porffor!
Thrilled to announce that from next week I'll be working on my AOT JS engine Porffor full-time, thanks to the support of @defunkt!.
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