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The amount of yak-shaving that you have to do to make software "just work" is mind boggling.

The amount of yak-shaving that you have to do to make software "just work" is mind boggling.

I've been digging into #REBOL lately. http://re-bol.com/short_rebol_examples.rHard to believe we ended up with Java, HTML/CSS/JS and...

I've been digging into #REBOL lately.

http://re-bol.com/short_rebol_examples.r

Hard to believe we ended up with Java, HTML/CSS/JS and all.

@stevelord I'm getting lost in your "Dork Web". It's wonderful, thank you!

@stevelord I'm getting lost in your "Dork Web". It's wonderful, thank you!

The day the page https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/a-guide-to-flexbox/ is down, nobody can write #flexbox anymore

The day the page https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/a-guide-to-flexbox/ is down, nobody can write #flexbox anymore

Van Jacobson provides a nice overview of the context when TCP/IP was invented and what should be the solution to replace it.I also like that...

Van Jacobson provides a nice overview of the context when TCP/IP was invented and what should be the solution to replace it.

I also like that he insists on how important it is to have the right point of view when solving problems.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCZMoY3q2uM

You can find his new protocol here: https://named-data.net/

"The inconveniences of daily life are not the significant problems.The world that scrolls past you on Twitter is not the real world.You...

"The inconveniences of daily life are not the significant problems.
The world that scrolls past you on Twitter is not the real world.
You cannot calibrate your sense of what’s valuable and necessary to the current fashions in your field."

http://worrydream.com/ClimateChange/

I always thought web browsers becoming OS was a bad thing.But it turns out that they were bound to become OS-like. What was needed was...

I always thought web browsers becoming OS was a bad thing.

But it turns out that they were bound to become OS-like. What was needed was careful planning, which Alan Kay tried to do in the 90s:

"One way to look at where things are today is that the circumstances of the Internet forced the web browsers to be more and more like operating systems, but without the design and the look-aheads that are needed. "

https://www.quora.com/Should-web-browsers-have-stuck-to-being-document-viewers

@helveticablanc Just bought your Zine of December...it is so good! Thank you so much!

@helveticablanc Just bought your Zine of December...it is so good! Thank you so much!