hmans

I find articles like this obnoxious because

1) they (implicitly or explicitly) claim that RSS was at some point popular (with "normal users") in some way that it is not today, which is wrong.

2) they completely ignore the fact that RSS today is significantly more widespread than it was a decade ago.

Yes, Google Reader is gone. Get over it. Flipboard and similar have heaps and heaps of users, and they're all RSS-based.

And there's a beautiful little tool named Bridgy that can pull replies/mentions off Twitter and Facebook and turn them into Indieweb-able entities. It's all really quite great, but of course assumes the terrible, terrible inconvenience of running your own website.

"It's never happened to me, so it must be that guy's fault!"

Hammerspoon

Focus on HTML and CSS. Those will still be relevant in ~10 years, while most of today's JavaScript hotness will be nothing but a memory long gone.

The only app on my phone that's not trying to copycat Snapchat is Termux.

No.

That's a very American thing to say.

Yes, we are; no, it's not just you. Next question.

Always.

"brew install" installs executable code on your system

Domain squatting as a service.

Good.

Because the masses will always gravitate towards inferior options.

It's been ruined by a generation of developers who believe it a good idea to build stateful applications on top of an inherently stateless document-centric infrastructure.

Remember when everyone agreed that there was no point to competing with AOL and CompuServe?

How did Amazon approve this?

This is the correct answer.

The JavaScript framework situation is getting out of hand

lol no

XMPP (like many other similar protocols) is failing not because it's "not moving fast enough", but because open standards are required to make a commitment to simplicity (in order to be inclusive towards as many devices as possibility) which, in many cases, directly opposes the requirements of a business (ie. having unique features.)

In the end, it's quite simple: federation and simplicity work _against_ many business cases. This is why this stuff is being dropped by the big players in favor of proprietary solutions left, right and center.

Maybe Mozilla Persona should apply.

Spending two years with IndieWeb convinced me that people generally are not interested in sustainable solutions as long as centralized services make it more convenient to post cat pictures. (Also see: Slack vs. IRC)

Someone needs a bit of anger management therapy.

Posted on Medium.

Docker is the industry-accepted standard to run web applications as root.

Yes.

Claims to improve user input. Website has JavaScript-based smooth scrolling.

No.

No.

Web forms