mjbamford
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9 months ago
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on: Bill Atkinson has died
I never met Bill, and he never knew I existed, but he has had such a huge impact on my career, my family and my prosperity. I started my programming passion on the Apple II and switch to the Mac in 1984 after seeing MacPaint. Hypercard was very impactful on my logical thinking, paraded the incredibility of possibilities from this machine, and taught me how to conceptualise information. His humble efforts have had such a profound affect. I'm so very full of grief upon hearing this news.
mjbamford
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9 months ago
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on: Ruby 3.5 Feature: Namespace on read
Very helpful example.
mjbamford
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1 year ago
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on: Apple apologizes for iPad 'Crush' ad that 'missed the mark'
I have been an Apple user since June 1983, and have repeatedly sung the praises of the company, its technology and its vision for decades to friends, family employers and employees. Some of my own identify is strangely drawn from being an Apple aficionado for so long. Personally, this ad was very disappointing, very crushing - to purposefully destroy instruments of creativity is rudely incongruous to my understand of the meaning of Apple.
mjbamford
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2 years ago
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on: Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself?
I've just discovered git-fuzzy - it's fantastic! I missed its announcement on Hacker News some 3 years ago. Thanks for highlighting it in this thread!
mjbamford
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3 years ago
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on: Heroku Status – Dashboard/API Offline
After the large pricing increases, the dumping of free apps, the lack of a facility to deploy to local (e.g. asia-pacific) regions without a "private space", and the astronomical prices for these private spaces, plus the complete lack of innovation, it's time for me to move on and learn a new vendor's offerings. Truly the last straw. Once a successful startup is purchased by one of these legacy giants, it really is the forbidding end of the invention that made the startup a winner to begin with.
mjbamford
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9 years ago
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on: Apple pulled Dash from the App Store for “review manipulation”
Apple, how on earth is this good for existing customers? You're not protecting us - you're discouraging us. We've paid for the application and now can't get access to it. If there's an alternative channel, I'll never buy from an Apple app store again.
