My name is Brian. This is my life in mostly pictures.
Haven’t been on Tumblr in a minute, but it was very strange to see a totally new set of humans using the old work tags we used to all use.
Not bad really, just different. I miss Tumblr still.
Unused Tumblr release notes
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These are notes that only Tag could write, and could only ever exist at Tumblr. This is certainly a happysad kind of feeling that I have right now.
Anonymous asked:
sexpigeon answered:
In the ten years that Tumblr’s been around, a lot has changed in web technology. We’ve kept up, of course, but it’s always been a process of addition, layering one new technology on top of another. And what we were working with—a custom framework built on top of Backbone, messily entangled with a PHP backend and its associated templates—was becoming unmanageable. Our piecemeal conversions to new technologies meant we had thousands of ways posts were rendered (only a moderate exaggeration). And each of those had to be updated individually to support new features or design changes.
It was time to step back, survey the world of web technology, and clean house in a big way. That we could finally test some of the new tech we’ve been itching to use was just a little bonus.
We started by laying out our goals:
With those goals in mind, we spent the beginning of the year on research - figuring out what kinds of things people were building web apps with these days, tooling around with them ourselves, and trying to assess if they would be right for Tumblr. We landed, eventually, on React, with a Node server (running Express) to make isomorphism as easy as possible. On top of that, we’re using Cosmos for developing components, React Router for routing, and TypeScript to make our lives better in general. (My colleague Paul already wrote about what went into our decision to use TypeScript here.)
As if writing an entirely new stack wasn’t enough, we realized along the way that this was our perfect chance to start deploying containerized applications with Kubernetes, a first for Tumblr. We had never previously deployed a node application to production here, and didn’t have the infrastructure for it, so it was a perfect green field on which to build another new and exciting thing. There’ll be more to come later on Kubernetes.
So where are we now? Well, we’ve launched one page powered by this new app - image pages, like this - with more to come very soon.
Though it may seem simple, there’s a whole new technological world between you clicking that link and seeing that page. There’s a ton more exciting stuff happening now and still to happen in the future, and we’re looking forward to sharing it here. Wanna get in on the action yourself? Come work with us: https://www.tumblr.com/jobs.
- Robbie Dawson / @idiot
Literally dozens of people panicked today as TBC crashed. “I really thought Tumblcoin was the future of currency,” said Tumblcoin investor xxxcryptoboy421xxx.
When asked how such a dip in value could occur a mere hour after Tumblr referred to the cryptocurrency as “completely sound” and “unsinkable,” their Chief Coin Officer appeared to dissociate completely.
Investors claim a drop in the Expanding Brain meme as a possible source of TBC’s recent violent fluctuation.
Local economy analysts have stated the only way to save Tumblcoin is by urging the Tumblr community to create a brand new meme to bolster the strength of the young cryptocurrency. The fate is in their hands.
On December 14 the FCC will vote on Commissioner Pai’s plan to repeal Title II rules. This week he tried to justify that decision with a “myth busting” explainer where he makes a lot of sweeping claims he doesn’t think you’ll fact check.
So let’s go through his big points:
These are the real facts. Before Title II, the internet was so “free and open” that…
In today’s media market where the same huge companies make and deliver content, Commissioner Pai wants us to trust that corporations won’t use their dominance to bury competitive content or services.
Here’s another claim Commissioner Pai doesn’t want you to fact check, but:
As we mentioned above, ISPs tried to interfere with the services their customers could access and courts had to step in to stop them.
The FCC tried to craft net neutrality rules in 2010 called the Open Internet Order but the ISPs sued and won. The courts told the FCC that the only way to guarantee a free and open internet was using their Title II authority. Without those protections, any of these things would be legal:
Repealing Title II would be like letting a car company own the roads and banning a competitor from the highways.
Let’s break this down: We won’t have fast lanes and slow lanes, we’ll have “priority access” and…non-priority access? Well gosh.
This week we co-signed a letter with more than 300 other companies—businesses Mr. Pai gleefully ignores—urging the FCC to retain the Title II internet protections. Now we need you.
Oh, also: that post about automatically unfollowing the #net neutrality tag—it’s not true. It’s really not. That’s not who we are. Whatever happened, we haven’t been able to reproduce it. We tried. A lot.
But if it were true—which it’s not, we feel compelled to say again—THAT’S EXACTLY WHY YOU SHOULD CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVES and demand a free, open, and neutral internet.
