... #Apple has become so emboldened by a decade of free monopoly reign that they don’t even feign a superficial adherence to their own rules. They carve out exceptions left and right to mega corporations they’d rather not anger, then invent entirely new rules that aren’t codified anywhere when it suits them...
@maique With many things that #37signals does, I often have to ask myself:
Why the hell hasn't anyone thought of this yet?
There are some really good ideas in there.
I never bought the "cheeper, easier, faster" claim but it's true, it's much more convenient for a startup company or a "one man company" (like me) to grow and scale. But at a certain point in the cloud, you might have become "the cloud" so I guess it just evolutionary to build your own.
It's interesting that a story is doing the rounds about an institution migrating from Basecamp because of the views of the company founders on DEI and adjacent topics, given that the latest episode of the 37Signals podcast is about this very topic.
I was about to upgrade my very old #Basecamp to the $15/m individual plan, but then I read #37Signals’ ONCE manifesto, and I wasn’t sure, if they plan some sort of a lifetime, self-hosted license for Basecmap, or what that would be.
Those of you who love #Forth, do you foresee a pathway out of obscurity for the language? In an era where memory safe languages like #Rust dominate, does forth have something to offer?
It used to be that its super power was being "just enough abstraction" atop #assembly language made it the king of flexibility. But in an era where machine language institutions are themselves just really fast macros in a tiny CPU cache, I'm not sure how helpful that is.