FRUSTRATING AT SCALE
2025-02-17
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> Large companies find HTML & CSS frustrating “at scale” because the web is a
fundamentally anti-capitalist mashup art experiment, designed to give
consumers all the power.
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> Miriam Eric Suzanne, 24 November 2019 (originally via Twitter)
This. This is what I needed to be reminded, today.
When somebody complains that the Web is hard to scale, they're already working
against the grain of the Web.
At its simplest - and the way we used to use it - a website is a collection of
.html files, one of which might have a special name so the webserver knows to
put it first.
Writing HTML is punk rock. A "platform" is the tool of the establishment.
Thanks, Mia.