Contrasts the $500K, 5-month modern web development approach with Unix's $5K, 5-day philosophy. Argues that rejecting Unix's solid architectural principles has led to unnecessary complexity and bloated costs in web development.
How I liberated 6,733 tweets from Twitter's algorithmic prison and what it reveals about platform manipulation, shadowbanning, and the extraction of value from genuine builders.
Learn how to use web fundamentals like URLs, HTML, and microformats to create decentralized social networks that work for people, not platforms.
Analyzes how search engines and social media failed as discovery mechanisms. From SEO manipulation to algorithmic feeds, explains why RSS and direct subscriptions are resurging as users reclaim control.
Explores psychological and economic factors perpetuating technical debt. Examines why developers choose familiar but problematic technologies over superior alternatives, using the Python-to-Go resistance as a case study.
Historical perspective on VB's attempt at web development. Lessons from Microsoft's failed bridge between desktop and web paradigms.
Why WordPress delivers in days what custom frameworks take months to build. Challenges developer biases against practical solutions.
Why web frameworks lack the message-passing architecture that made desktop apps robust. Explores the architectural gap in modern web development.
Defines the true responsibilities of web frameworks versus marketing promises. Analyzes core duties like routing and request handling versus feature creep into specialized tool territories.
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