Anil Dash
speaker
126 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Jul 2024
last heard 15 Jun
Anil Dash’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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He could do it all right and code and whatever.
And so I wanted to be, I did a bunch of posts in textile because I was like, I want to be like Dean.
And then I was like, but it doesn't, it just doesn't, it's not how people write.
And so I got to see, so I was in charge of people making plugins basically.
And so we were trying to launch
When you make a platform, you want people to make plugins.
And we were really the first tool that had plugins.
And so it was like a dream to be like, here's John.
And everybody already loved Daring Fireball.
Here's John making this thing.
And here's Dean making the version of Dean's thing.
And so you're like, what an embarrassment of riches to have these things that people actually want to use.
But it was not even close right out of the gate that people were just using Markdown because they could type something that looked like
what they were already writing.
They were like, I already know this one, or at least I know two-thirds of it.
Then they told us explicitly, this works like I work.
No, but it didn't have to be, right?
So I think it's hard to explain how different, like...
what we used to call the blogosphere, like how different blogs were in social media world there.
Like there was a sense that everybody read every blog every day then.
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