#web
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Whatever Happened to the Semantic Web? (twobithistory.org)"the putative benefits of something like XML are not easy to sell to a programmer when the alternatives are both entirely sufficient and much easier to understand"
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ironic coming from the same company that's trying to get rid of the URL
https://twitter.com/googledocs/status/1055490445088903168 -
The Cult of the Complex (alistapart.com)"Complexity is good for convincing people they could not possibly do your job. Simplicity is good for everything else."
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How not to replace email (jamey.thesharps.us)
I’d say the single most important lesson to take away here, for a technology project at least, is that interoperability is key.
- Assume that no matter how amazing your new tech is, people are going to adopt it slowly.
- Give your early adopters every chance you can to use your offering together with the existing tools that they will continue to need in order to work with people who haven’t caught up yet.
- And if you’re building a communication tool, make it as simple as possible for others to build compatible tools, because they will expand the network of people your users can communicate with to populations you haven’t thought of and probably don’t understand.
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Write Dumb Code (matthewrocklin.com)"We should not seek to build software. Software is the currency that we pay to solve problems."
