I think because APIs map well to various kinds of ETL...
@doriantaylor@belling I think because APIs map well to various kinds of ETL mindset. XQuery endpoints returning sets of validated documents would be an amazing way to see, like, Wikipedia where you write the document and include the other documents as they are. Sigh.
I loved it especially when a node could trigger a web...
@belling@doriantaylor I loved it especially when a node could trigger a web request which would then get parsed and processed node by node. The idea that EVERYTHING would now be a giant tree of nodes over the network was amazing and API-driven code doesn't really have the same feel as traversal.
i mean it was actually 15 years ahead of its time, and the...
@doriantaylor i mean it was actually 15 years ahead of its time, and the syntax was ridiculous, but now everyone is like functional pattern matching all day and night
Both XML and the Semantic Web were proxy versions of...
@doriantaylor Both XML and the Semantic Web were proxy versions of worse-is-better. XML transformation was LISP with XML characteristics; the Semantic web was AI+ontology+FOPL with XML characteristics. We were solving for P2P interchange as Ruby nerds were dumping data into crap web APIs.
1) we THOUGHT we were building document transformation...
@doriantaylor 1) we THOUGHT we were building document transformation pipelines but people WANTED messaging platforms 2) namespaces, esp attribute-level, were bulky, and tools ignored them 3) the tooling was baroque (XSLT, which I loved)
Stock/flows yes. It is helpful to break down functions of...
@BillSeitz Stock/flows yes. It is helpful to break down functions of an organization and think about external inputs and how they move along in various paths and what the gating mechanisms are and what moves them along.
I continue to be challenged by nabobs. This is a...
I continue to be challenged by nabobs. This is a loose-fitting Brooks Brothers for fatties, half-buttoned when I put it on. Upon sitting on the bus the collar shifted neckwards at which point I experienced an awkwardness. These are facts.
I don't know what to tell you all. There's what you...
I don't know what to tell you all. There's what you understand from your culture and conditioning, and there's what is actually real and happened. twitter.com/...
In an all time getting-the-kids-out-the-door highlight, I...
In an all time getting-the-kids-out-the-door highlight, I just sat down on the bus and realized I'm wearing my shirt backwards, which, sure, but it's a button-down Oxford.
I hope perfect genius Mark Hollis died on exactly the same...
I hope perfect genius Mark Hollis died on exactly the same inspirational terms as he lived, by which I mean doing whatever he wanted while not giving a shit about a bunch of nerds.
Today during our Growth and Partnerships meeting I was...
Today during our Growth and Partnerships meeting I was informed by senior @PostlightStudio leadership that I should cease all further attempts towards a beard.
it's friday afternoon and the media is going to have to go...
it's friday afternoon and the media is going to have to go from using one deeply messed-up actor to excuse all racism ever straight into explaining how one old extremely rich football team owner is a lonely man who simply made a mistake
Ah dude I know that guy and the floor where he works. He's...
@redkeg Ah dude I know that guy and the floor where he works. He's all-purpose shitty. Fuck those screens and fuck that guy. Your shirt looks cool. Expense a treat please.
JEFFREY! That is a fantastic gig and having you there is...
@zeldman@automattic@WordPress JEFFREY! That is a fantastic gig and having you there is good for the future of the web. I'm so glad to see you in a position that can amplify your work even more.
A huge part of my job as CEO is using my platform to...
A huge part of my job as CEO is using my platform to amplify what our team is saying and thinking. In this case, @redkeg has an incredibly important message for everyone who works in product, design, and engineering. postlight.com/...
Many years ago I got invited to an Etsy thinkovator's...
Many years ago I got invited to an Etsy thinkovator's lunch. I thought I'd get to talk about my big ideas, but BOOM @harper came in and everyone was throwing their quinoa on the floor in order to hear what he had to say while I sat there. Anyway I love thunder-stealer Harper. twitter.com/...
Imagine sending interoffice USB sticks full of vintage...
@sophaskins Imagine sending interoffice USB sticks full of vintage warez via pneumatic tube at the pizzabox heritage museum we start in some abandoned aircraft factory!
Whole Earth Review magazine---got about 20 old issues,...
@modernserf Whole Earth Review magazine---got about 20 old issues, they're a blast. I decided not to go hard on collecting because it's a lot of STUFF but it is wild to read them.
linux desktop is pretty solid in 2019 but then it'll let...
linux desktop is pretty solid in 2019 but then it'll let you take the spotify window down to 1px wide and you're off on a treasure hunt twitter.com/...
I grew up in conservative eastern Pennsylvania where the...
I grew up in conservative eastern Pennsylvania where the only drugs we had were protestantism, hard work, opiates, prescription painkillers, and booze to manage the depression.
My son just picked this up in the park and asked me what it...
My son just picked this up in the park and asked me what it was. My wife said that in California parents always told kids "it's a lamp for whiskey" because kids know whisky is gross. twitter.com/...
It is Saturday morning in my personal 2019 so I woke up...
It is Saturday morning in my personal 2019 so I woke up early to do some organizing in our new CRM, but my daughter woke up sick and sobbing, so instead she and I are watching 3D Barbie fight robots on NetFlix while she sips Capri Sun.
But tech needs capital and capital needs tech's growth, to...
But tech needs capital and capital needs tech's growth, to mutually sustain our bubble-machine economy. But when you try to do the real thing, make NYC a tech city by dropping Amazon in the middle of Queens, it seemed off. Why do anything in NYC unless you absolutely need to?
My galaxy brain idea is that NYC is fascinated with west...
My galaxy brain idea is that NYC is fascinated with west coast tech and the west coast is fascinated with NYC financial markets and so each builds cargo cult versions of the other. NYC built a whole new tech college on an island and SV pretended blockchains were Wall St.
I've been doing a thing where I use Google's transcript and...
I've been doing a thing where I use Google's transcript and the kids just yell nonsense words and noises at my phone to see what the machine learning comes up with, and this is an example. twitter.com/...
I put Sarah McLachlan's “Possession” (the song) on the...
I put Sarah McLachlan's “Possession” (the song) on the office playlist and it's a little much to handle and I feel weird about it, but I didn't chose “Ice Cream.”
It's a really special document. It's a little clunky, which...
@patbits It's a really special document. It's a little clunky, which is probably why it never made it into the canon, but I keep thinking about the stories it tells and how we are telling the exact same stories now.
Anyway these are things I've learned about over the years...
Anyway these are things I've learned about over the years and On Here but hearing them expressed four generations back has given me a context that I didn't have before.
You can see how many forms of Black expression are born out...
You can see how many forms of Black expression are born out of the constraints of exclusion, having to find new forms, and how when white people come in and start to play with what you made it could feel like your last penny is being fished out of your pocket.
I listen to a lot of old audio and representation in 1944...
I listen to a lot of old audio and representation in 1944 was almost universally racist. This is an extremely unusual series. There's an episode about a talented young musician who can't afford to go to the conservatory. He ends up playing boogie woogie.
Another very important thing I learned today is that Emily...
Another very important thing I learned today is that Emily Dickinson used this desk and chair, from which we can conclude that she was teensy. twitter.com/...
I really think a lot about that. Reading him makes it clear...
@Greg_Lindsay I really think a lot about that. Reading him makes it clear this platform is in no way aligned with my long-term goals or in my interest. They will make decisions that take away what we like here. It's inevitable and investing much more energy here is dangerous.
It was me. I was the visitor along with @closacco. It was...
It was me. I was the visitor along with @closacco. It was in the Samuel Johnson collection at Houghton Library and @john_overholt gave us an amazing tour gently questioning many of my digital-first preconceptions. I'm throwing away my laptop and will simply use vellum. twitter.com/...
The rules I set were:
1) Enough music to cover full...
The rules I set were: 1) Enough music to cover full workweek PLUS flex time. 2) No artist twice. 3) Pop hits encouraged. 4) Swearing okay but this is an office. 5) Try to include music for everyone. 6) Avoid long songs.
So @PostlightStudio has a thing called STAR WEEK ⭐️ where...
So @PostlightStudio has a thing called STAR WEEK ⭐️ where we pick people and let them control the office Sonos (and other fun stuff). As a boss I was exempt but they changed the rules, so I spent an UNGODLY amount of time on this, my greatest playlist. open.spotify.com/...
And it sort of goes from there. It's very hard to explain...
@goldman And it sort of goes from there. It's very hard to explain all the layers of power and anxiety here. I know it sounds ridiculous to say "she let down her industry" but it is real and painful to see.
1) the emperor stands and points and announces that no one...
@goldman 1) the emperor stands and points and announces that no one is wearing any clothes. 2) but it turns out that actually the emperor has no clothes—and worse, they're stolen! 3) there are no more clothes in the kingdom. 4) facebook has all the clothes.
Every Democratic presidential hopeful who claims to speak...
Every Democratic presidential hopeful who claims to speak for the nation should be required to go on live national TV and assemble a child's bed from Ikea.
The URL was very much like "/sys/be?(apply authenticate '(2...
The URL was very much like "/sys/be?(apply authenticate '(2 5 7 12))" but then it went on another several hundred characters. I cannot remember the face of my grandfather.
I think it was a mix of learning about that key-value...
@richziade I think it was a mix of learning about that key-value store's security risk, the conversation about the WordPress API, Bezos talking about his penis on Medium, and the fact that we should have stopped the dinner after one round and apps. That's how we process it.
I'm a boring person and I've had a lot of deeply boring...
I'm a boring person and I've had a lot of deeply boring dreams in my life, but I just woke up from a dream about a web platform that executed programs in a LISP dialect called “/be” and which you composed directly in URL query strings.
My brother had to write an essay on electrical safety after...
@rebeccablood@JoeBlubaugh My brother had to write an essay on electrical safety after he leaned a TV next to the tub so he could watch. Still remembers what he wrote 44 years later.
We'll update where we can, esp. if people submit issues via...
@TomPaineToday We'll update where we can, esp. if people submit issues via GitHub, but ultimately are hoping the community will contribute and expand this set.
The most important part of the repo is here: github.com/...
It's easy for junior developers to write custom content extractors for websites. This gives you the ability to greatly easy migration efforts, for example. Got 100 websites that all should be in one WordPress?
All the founders did was say "let's do it." This is very...
All the founders did was say "let's do it." This is very much an @adampash-led effort—with lots of support from engineering here in the US and in Lebanon.
Here at @PostlightStudio we just open-sourced Mercury, our...
Here at @PostlightStudio we just open-sourced Mercury, our web parser. It's a tool for building accessible reading experiences (and much more). It's parsed 100s of millions of web pages for 100s of millions of people—and now it's yours, free, forever. postlight.com/...
I had that exact reaction. It actually gets okay after you...
@slavin_fpo I had that exact reaction. It actually gets okay after you lock in. Still an oral/paper culture at it's core but designed for maximum access. Deeply broken and inefficient but filled with caring people. We have a PS we love and trust.