Notices by wakame (wakame@tech.lgbt)

@aral
That's no "invasion". Wagner is just executing a "special operation" in Moscow.

@aral
I keep wondering where we went wrong.

We had something like the Small Web 30-40 years ago.
(Although I find the word a bit weird. For me, a web is a network, that only exists because there are nodes that communicate.)

Sure, you likely didn't have your own server in the 80s. But our "organization" had (university, research institute, military thing).

The whole idea of "having your own website" was something that could have naturally evolved into "having your own server".

And yes, it is high time we fix that "it actually belongs to someone else" thing.

@chrisg @aral @avirr

We built a system where people don't have enough time and energy to work on new things, because they have to make ends meet.

Venture capital "allows" people to have the freedom to create they should have anyway.

And they only ask for the rights to those new things in exchange. How generous...

@aral

"How do software developers understand which parts of their software are being used and whether they are performing as expected? The modern answer is telemetry..."

Yes, and the _proper_ answer is: Testing, a way for users to give feedback and maybe a survey now and then.

@aral You mean the Tumblrverse?

@rom @psb_dc @pluralistic @aral
IMHO in many cases people just want to build a space rocket where two or three HTML files would do.

For example, why does every bakery and every barbershop need a Wordpress site? A weird programming language, an editor hosted in your webspace, even a database. How many million page views will a barbershop get that we need a database?

Similar with static site generators: Maybe we just need to revive something like Frontpage (sorry) for the average Office user.

@rom @psb_dc @pluralistic @aral

Sorry to slide into a meme, format, I am actually serious:

You want interactivity? We had that. It was called CGI.

All you need for a simple guestbook: Throw together a simple script in Python or JavaScript or... BASIC, that writes the guestbook entries into a flat file and you are done.

Maybe five lines JavaScript in the browser to inject the text into the DOM (or just regenerate your HTML on the server...).

I mean: It's a markup language, not embedded C.