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April 2006 to January 2010.

Projects include the main Ruby app, Flock, the streaming API, and mobile site.

Music is "Undercurrent" by Jami Sieber, licensed via Magnatune.

magnatune.com/artists/albums/sieber-lush/hifi_play

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  • yahooza 2 years ago
    very cool! when did y'all roll your Scala into your infrastructure? didn't see it, unless i totally missed it ....
  • Bernhard Häussner 1 year ago
    Well there are some yellow (Scala) dots in March 2008
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  • John P. Barbagallo 2 years ago
    Awesome.
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  • Chris Carter 2 years ago
    Very cool.
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  • rgaidot 2 years ago
    Awesome! Awesome! Awesome!
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  • Gérald Elbaze 2 years ago
    magnifique. Parfait
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  • Josh Williams 2 years ago
    Does the position of the Devs within the frame and relative to each other represent something? (They float closer, apart, higher, lower...)
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  • Jesse Tobler 2 years ago
    Wish I knew what event was going on in the world when those huge spikes come through. Regardless, I was mesmerized.
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  • Christopher Burd 2 years ago
    My 13-year-old son's comments:

    "Why do they have to make it look so creepy?"

    "Are these guys all nerds?"

    "That guy's dying."

    "Wow, that guy's got a lot of files."

    "They don't use much Javascript."

    "How come nerds have to make everything creepy?"
  • Jed Sundwall 1 year ago
    Your son wins.
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  • Jrome 2 years ago
    It's...ALIVE!
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  • Parker Strode 2 years ago
    absolutely insane
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  • Mark Essel 2 years ago
    I get a little misty eyed when the earlier developers icons vanish. And I gasp at early 2008 when code seems to freeze.
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  • Aden Narbenfarkle 2 years ago
    Beautiful visualization - what a dance! That was way more emotional than I expected. Loved it.
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  • Dean Francis 2 years ago
    And yet none of those dots represent the "remember me" function
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  • Vithor César 2 years ago
    Muito bom!
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  • André Simões 2 years ago
    Amazing! The animation and the music, this music is also licensed for the game Braid (braid-game.com/). It's magical!
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  • eifersucht 2 years ago
    Amazing!
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  • mpared plus 2 years ago
    posted at the curious brain :-)
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  • Geekiz 2 years ago
    Posted At geekiz.com/le-developpement-de-twitter-en-video
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  • wunami 2 years ago
    Where did you get the data of which bits of code were going to which developers? I can't imagine that they would keep track of it in this much detail. At least at first.
  • Bernhard Häussner 1 year ago
    I think they used some kind of code control (Git, svn, hg, ...)
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  • Jason Wagner 1 year ago
    Wow that's seriously awesome. It gets so crazy at the end!
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  • Avi Flax 1 year ago
    Holy shit!
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  • Laurent Gloaguen 1 year ago
    Fascinating.
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  • eric alba 1 year ago
    this is great. what software was used to process the visuals?

    Procesing.org?

    would love to know more.
  • Neoganeto 1 year ago
    You're right, it's Processing. It seems that he uses a modified version of code.google.com/p/codeswarm/

    @Ben Sandowsky: It would be great if you made those code-changes public!
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  • Gilberto Prujansky 1 year ago
    Colorgasmic
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  • arahr 1 year ago
    VearryKoool....even without the 'shrooms -LoL
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  • Bobby Smith 1 year ago
    done a few code_swarm visualizations myself. how did you get the icons instead of the developer's names?
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  • Avinash Maurya 1 month ago
    thanks for this.
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