Rereading “Working in Public”. I remember being enthused by it first time round. Several years later it just reads like a dystopian hellscape.
> While some like to grumble at GitHub’s homogenizing effects, what happened in open source isn’t much different from what happened to the rest of the internet. Before platforms, our online world was a scattered collection of forums, blogs, personal websites.
Auh-huh… 😳
Carlton Gibson 🇪🇺
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