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steveklabnik on April 20, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Joe Armstrong has died

It’s done any time someone “with significance to the community” dies. I’m not sure when it started but it’s been a thing for many years.

Feels extremely appropriate to me, and honestly, it was the first thing I looked for after I saw a tweet about this. RIP, Joe :(

_asummers on April 20, 2019 [–]

RIP Joe indeed. He will be sorely missed as a pillar of the BEAM community.

Not to diverge too far, but does anyone know who the first black bar was?

steveklabnik on April 20, 2019 | [–]

I tried to use the search and couldn’t find anything authoritative.

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