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by bnt 2249 days ago
Does anyone remember the drama of failwhale and their Rails issues? Those were the times!
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rhizome 2248 days ago
You mean when Michael Arrington used his popular meda outlet to assassinate Blaine Cook's job and reputation?

https://techcrunch.com/2008/04/23/amateur-hour-over-at-twitt...

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rhizome 2248 days ago
Heck, if you use Twitter a lot you've probably seen the return of the failwhale over the past several months: https://imgur.com/a/p6mYfIw
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ChrisArchitect 2249 days ago
was thinking about the failwhale a few weeks back when github went down and was throwing angry pink unicorns. Different, pre-coronavirus times.
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