It's a good story that they were happy to give up the name and domain to Fog Creek for this.
Also: I really like HyperDev/GoMix/Glitch. Making this tooling available for people seems like the next juddering step forward. There's easy comparisons to things like HyperCard and Yahoo! Pipes, and the intentions seem the same here. Looking forward to the future of this.
That explains why some of the site is blocked as "Category:Games" by the web filter at my work. Fortunately our web filter doesn't block the whole domain, just some of the pages.
Wow, so when he says "We have developed some unique messaging technology with applications outside of the gaming world and a smaller core team will be working to develop new products." he's talking about Slack..?
Yep. Stewart Butterfield & co. failed to develop a web-based online game, it reused parts of the game framework to create Flickr. Then, years later, he tried to create a new game, Glitch, and during development they built Slack as an internal tool. Glitch failed, Slack was spun out. He keeps trying to make games, but the universe wants him to create Internet startups instead. Third time the charm, perhaps.
"Why did we change the name (again)? Well, we heard from some members of our community that the old name evokes a hurtful slur in some Russian communities, and given our deep commitment to building an inclusive service, that didn’t sit right with us, even though people understand we didn’t mean to be hurtful."
I would be intrigued to see a database of, say, the top 10 or 25 languages in the world, and all their potentially offensive phrases. It would be useful to help avoid this sort of thing, and probably have some interesting things to say about linguistics and psychology.
It doesn't detect "gomix" though, which is odd, as I submitted it when gomix.com was launched and the naming snafu was mentioned here.
Edit: having tried variations on some common English words, I can see why not - the phonetic matching seems pretty poor. I wonder what algorithm they're using?
I am using Glitch as a learning tool and it is great!
It is great to see in real time the consequences of what I am typing. The faster the feedback the faster you learn. I know if something broke or work as I intended immediatelly.
That's right - can't edit or view the code when private (unless you're a member of the project) but you can always see the published project. But of course, you can implement whatever access controls you want in your app.
Weird timing - the latest JSJ podcast[0], released this morning, is titled "Gomix with Daniel X Moore". In it Daniel hints at some coming changes, but I didn't think it was as fundamental as a brand change.
Yeah, we're looking into a better way to allow folks to export to private repos (which is something people asked for) while not having to ask all users for everything. Stay tuned.
You don't need an account to try it out, only to keep your projects around for more than a few days and Facebook login is another option to consider.
That said, from a quick perusal of the landing page, I have precious little idea what this is for, and equally little inclination to watch a two minute introductory video.
Instant gratification modern stack web (frontend/backend) programming. Ok for playing around, but for anything serious it doesn't seem to add much imho. Maybe I am missing something. If you could install it on your own company servers it would be better.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4786514
It's a good story that they were happy to give up the name and domain to Fog Creek for this.
Also: I really like HyperDev/GoMix/Glitch. Making this tooling available for people seems like the next juddering step forward. There's easy comparisons to things like HyperCard and Yahoo! Pipes, and the intentions seem the same here. Looking forward to the future of this.
Initial development was as Hyperdev. Gomix was the chosen name at the time of the beta launch. Glitch is the current name.
Wrong thread? Not clear what you're referring to?
[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4786931
[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4786514
"Why did we change the name (again)? Well, we heard from some members of our community that the old name evokes a hurtful slur in some Russian communities, and given our deep commitment to building an inclusive service, that didn’t sit right with us, even though people understand we didn’t mean to be hurtful."
It doesn't detect "gomix" though, which is odd, as I submitted it when gomix.com was launched and the naming snafu was mentioned here.
Edit: having tried variations on some common English words, I can see why not - the phonetic matching seems pretty poor. I wonder what algorithm they're using?
I am creating my portfolio there btw: https://rodrigo-pontes.glitch.me
Is there a reason I can't make something private to view? Is that a paid feature that will come later?
Sometimes I just want to play around and don't want people to know how silly my code is and then hold it against me as a person.
[0]https://devchat.tv/js-jabber/gomix-with-daniel-x-moore
You don't need an account to try it out, only to keep your projects around for more than a few days and Facebook login is another option to consider.
That said, from a quick perusal of the landing page, I have precious little idea what this is for, and equally little inclination to watch a two minute introductory video.
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