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   Anil Dash (anildash@me.dm)'s status on Saturday, 02-Dec-2023 05:14:02 JST Anil Dash

   Featured in this piece, Hixie shitting on one of the most visible Black women in developer leadership in the entire industry, *in the same post* where he talks about how the entire product that he was tech lead for was built on a foundation of dogshit. This is after a lengthy session of "why didn't all those activists trying to hold Google accountable just understanding that we were helping everyone and they were stupid and wrong?" https://mastodon.social/@daringfireball/111490188210503451

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     Anil Dash (anildash@me.dm)'s status on Saturday, 02-Dec-2023 05:14:44 JST Anil Dash

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     The entire point of the piece is "the middle managers at Google fucked it all up" — without the writer realizing that he is, in fact, just a middle manager at Google

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     Anil Dash (anildash@me.dm)'s status on Saturday, 02-Dec-2023 07:06:26 JST Anil Dash

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     • Luis Villa

     @sayrer @luis_in_brief I’ve been watching interactions with him for 20 years, with him first having gotten on my radar for his oddly personal and dismissive attempts to discredit technical decisions made by (surprise!) the young woman who founded the company I was at. Awful interesting set of coincidences about whom he happens to think is beneath him in technical acumen.

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     sayrer (sayrer@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 02-Dec-2023 07:06:27 JST sayrer

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     • Luis Villa

     @luis_in_brief @anildash oh, Flutter is pretty successful. You don't see it a lot in the US, but it is popular in markets that are heavily Android, where they are just happy to get a serviceable iOS app on the side.

     I've met the guy a few times, and he definitely brings upper crust British vibes, but I don't think it is intentional. Here, I can see compiler (Go, Flutter, Dart) and web platform engineers bristling at this manager, whose experience seems great for Firebase, but not that stuff.

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     Luis Villa (luis_in_brief@social.coop)'s status on Saturday, 02-Dec-2023 07:06:28 JST Luis Villa

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     @anildash The chutzpah of complaining about wasted time, after spending a decade of very well-compensated time on a project that has made no impact, is … something.

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     Anil Dash (anildash@me.dm)'s status on Saturday, 02-Dec-2023 07:07:55 JST Anil Dash

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     @shovemedia not like there are a ton of Black women in leadership roles at Google. His tenure overlapped with James Damore for years, but that wasn’t worth comment but people skeptical about Google’s stewardship of the open web are?

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     Jon Williams (shovemedia@triangletoot.party)'s status on Saturday, 02-Dec-2023 07:07:57 JST Jon Williams

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     @anildash I read this when it circulated about a week ago and all my alarm bells went off the moment I saw the one person singled out by name was coincidentally female