Aaron Parecki

- a mental model that works for me
- excellent quality error messages
- sufficiently expressive

#YouTube in 50 years.

"Welcome to Magic School. Here is your schedule."
"Thanks! But..."
"Yes?"
"This is just 'Ethics' and 'Human rights' and things like that."
"Correct, that's the first year curriculum."
"Do we have to learn all this?"
"Of course! What do you think this is, software engineering?"

1. Fun
2. Employable
3. Benevolent owners

- robust community support and adoption
- good impedance match with problem space
- excellent support tooling

note that none of those are about the BNF.

Good documentation.
Nice standard library.
Package management.

I really hope IndieAuth takes off at some point and allows us to privately host our own decentralized and federated authentication.

https://indieweb.org/IndieAuth

oh wow. During a discussion I had to share my old post on why OAuth2 isn't an authentication protocol http://www.cloudidentity.com/blog/2013/01/02/oauth-2-0-and-sign-in-4/. I use everyauth as example there, but apparently they lost the domain... now the link leads to "Top rated toilets and how to find them" #reassignableURLs

Was a blast to be a part of this! For the record, the camera I built WILL happen. I just know it