I once heard my school computer teacher say: "JavaScript is Java on steroids", when someone from class asked about it 😆

Our son turned 1 today! 🎉 The joy he brings us is incomparable.

Tree overlooking marsh 🌳 Looks a little Lords of the Ring’ish

Images are capped at 570px by 300px for the timeline view, no cap on height in the Drop view. I'm working on a way to view full size images too with no width restriction when you click to "view full size" basically.

Just me! 😆

Yeah, I think private Drops is probably how I'll do it vs a separate messaging system which is a bit redundant. Re bugs/improvements: - I'll work on adding paste image to Compose - Looking into those view bugs you mentioned Thanks!

Testing fanhouse.app/

Oh man I've got some good ideas coming for Glue! ⚡️ I love it when new features "flow" into a design and even better when they can replace existing clunky UI. HANDS MAKE HASTE, TODAY WE PROGRAM 🙌

Here's what I'm working on currently for Glue: · Search · Better threading for Drops · New blog sharing feature "snippets/quotes" · New content post type (related to above) · New activity/notifications indicator · Bugs, bugs, bugs... 🕺⚡️🤓

Sounds like the back-end is struggling to keep up? I don't have any experience with MongoDB, but I've generally used mysql / redis and they've been pretty fast with not much delay. Under load is a different story, but generally Redis cache layer has solved that for me.

Yeah, shoot me an email noah@ark.fm or Twitter DM works...some sort of private Drop or private messaging system on Glue will probably happen eventually 😀

I’ve got so much stuff I wanna do with the blog feature that I wish I had more hands to program faster 😆

P.S. Fixed scrolling bug and added to tooltips via: glue.im/changelog/351503047270...

Will do!

Good catch! Working on a fix for the scrolling issue and I'm also working on a "draft" feature for Drops which would work great with the "save/discard" idea. Thanks for the feedback!

@noah some cool feedback: Could the home button at the top be active when on the home screen? Also, could we possibly have some hover gestures on the buttons? Feel like the would bring the UI more to life.

Today has been a week since we launched and wow it's been a sprint! ⚡️Lots of new users and drops posted! Big thank you to everyone for the phenomenal feedback and I'm excited for the features coming next. Going to make dinner with the family and take a breather tonight! See you tomorrow 😀

Ruby flows better for me than JS or Go or even Python. My scaling path from a language level is using crystal-lang.org which is basically a statically typed/compiled ruby. I use crystal currently for @pingly to offload some backend processing. Want to move over more and eventually @Glue too

Ruby is just a fantastic language to write in and Rails is the best framework (IMO) for building something quickly and easily. Ruby got a bad wrap for being slow but it’s fine for most cases and DB is usually first bottle neck in what I’ve seen that caching can fix.

Sure! it’s built on Rails with redis for fast timeline delivery. Lots of new features coming for blogging, custom domains, paid accounts and threading conversations 🔥