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Professional software engineer working at CoverMyMeds, an enterprise healthtech firm that ensures patients get access to the medication they need.
Primarily focused on backend and systems design through Ruby and Elixir, but experienced with JavaScript and all things frontend
Interested in learning and teaching the craft of software; technical or otherwise
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My origin story
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Earlier this morning I was looking for inspiration to work on my personal website. I stumbled upon another web developer's blog and scrolled through until I saw something that struck me as.. strange. I was hooked immediately.
At the bottom of their About page, there was a small component that held a list of names that linked to other blogs, with "PREVIOUS" and "NEXT" buttons at the top.
It was titled "The Claw Webring".
Webrings were online communities designed to amplify a blog's SEO and shout out the author's friends and colleagues. Read more here
I clicked "JOIN". It led me here.
Mostly empty GitHub repo. Not a lot of detail. Okay, now I'm curious.
I went back and scrolled through the list and clicked a random name off the list, curious to see what was on the other side.
It led me to the personal website belonging to the author and developer that created https://codewithrockstar.com/, which I had no idea existed until now.
It's a coding language that also functions as a heavy metal song. Designed specifically to confuse recruiters who aren't familiar with the term "rockstar-dev".
Midnight takes your heart and your soul
While your heart is as high as your soul
Put your heart without your soul into your heart
Give back your heart
Desire is a lovestruck ladykiller
My world is nothing
Fire is ice
Hate is water
Until my world is Desire,
Build my world up
If Midnight taking my world, Fire is nothing and Midnight taking my world, Hate is nothing
Shout "FizzBuzz!"
Take it to the top
If Midnight taking my world, Fire is nothing
Shout "Fizz!"
Take it to the top
If Midnight taking my world, Hate is nothing
Say "Buzz!"
Take it to the top
Whisper my world
Esoteric programming languages are very interesting. Someone had to sit down and create these tools, out of labors of love. Everyone knows about Brainf**k, a language designed to be almost completely human-unreadable, but it's cool to see new examples pop up.
As interesting as Rockstar is, the point of this story, as is the case with most journeys, is not where I ended up or what I found, but rather the journey itself.
I saw an interesting component. It had a list of links. I clicked a link. I was curious to see what existed out there. I found something cool.
This curiosity->exploration->discovery->share feedback loop doesn't seem to happen often on the internet anymore. But I stumbled across it today and I was very pleased to have found it. I felt like I got a glimpse into the lives of some interesting people. It was certainly more satisfying than clicking through people's Twitter or LinkedIn profiles.
Internet communities and fandoms were one of the most beautiful aspects of early Internet culture. They may have dated roots in SEO and closed-off internet communities, but I think we should bring webrings back. Let me know what you think!
Thanks for reading
Austin
Originally posted on HackerNoon, original article here: https://hackernoon.com/whats-the-deal-with-webrings