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Cake day: July 8th, 2023

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  • Thanks. Interesting read. Not that I disagree with the points made in the post, but I find it quite problematic that the author at no point defines what he means by fascist. Does he subscribe to Marx, Umberto Eco, Walter Benjamin or other of the numerous philosophical descriptions. A little off topic but I think it’s important to at least reflect on this before labeling people without having properly defined the concept. I usually return to Eco and by his definition, DHH does indeed seem to align with (at least) Eco’s third aspect; Cult of Action for Action’s Sake. DHH rant on how “stupid” internal discussion and conflict in FOSS project is just bad leads me to believe that he is valuing action over reflection, leading to anti-intellectualism (which is also touched upon in the blog post).




  • Educator here. The text editor is awful. E.g. the font size in the paragraph font style selection isn’t consistent. Type text without changing font size -> c/p text from other source, select ‘normal’ paragraph style to match the initial style of my typed text -> font size differs. So the font size used as standard isn’t the same as the normal paragraph style. Also moving content on a course is slow and drag/drop only. Often you have to drag an item to the top of the, only to drop in something in between, scroll up/down in the browser, repeat.