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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 understand that we were helping everyone and they were stupid and wrong?" https://mastodon.social/@daringfireball/111490188210503451
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
@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.
@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.
@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.
@anildash @luis_in_brief interesting. I have never seen "oddly personal" stuff from him, but I have definitely seen “dismissive". That's wrong, but he must also have heard from a million people on the HTML5 stuff (which mostly worked). I'm sure he snapped a few times.
Most Americans find me snobby if I'm not careful, but I found him snobby in a first impression. I went with “let it go”, but that's pretty easy for me to do.
@anildash there isnt a middle manager on the planet that thinks they are middle management. That’s always the name for the level above. 
@anildash The beginning almost made me stop reading. I don’t know enough about the middle to say anything other than “it sounds about right for a large corporation that rewards the wrong things”. The very end, though… that is why my unemployed ass still hasn’t responded to a friend at Google who says he’ll refer me if I apply.
@anildash wow what an asshole! Calling out the CEO or other corporate officers by name is one thing, but a vice-president? He could have just left it vague. "Do no evil" indeed.