Anil Dash is someone I’ve known for a long time, to paraphrase Kara Swisher’s line at the beginning of almost all of her podcasts. At the time, Dash was working for Six Apart, the company that owned the Movable Type blogging platform (which RWW used).
Even though he is several years younger than me, he had a calm, wise way about him that contrasted with my own naivety at the time.
Nowadays, Dash is VP of Developer Experience at Fastly, one of the leading Content Delivery Network companies.
I’ve written https://thenewstack.io/the-creator-of-activitypub-on-whats-next-for-the-fediverse/ https://thenewstack.io/why-a-twitter-founding-engineer-is-now-all-in-on-mastodon/ https://thenewstack.io/devs-are-excited-by-activitypub-open-protocol-for-mastodon/ about how exciting a time this is for developers, in this https://thenewstack.io/twitter-turmoil-we-need-an-open-protocol-for-public-discourse/ social software era.