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February 20, 2015
Built to Last - RSS, HTTP

I'm a programmer by trade. And if there's one thing I've learned over
the past 17 years doing this professionally, it's that everything old
is new again. There are really only so many patterns, and they just
circle back around with new (and often more ridiculous) names.  

It's rare that something really new comes along. I'd argue that the
web, more specifically http, offered up the last truly new paradigm
in computing. It is a single, elegant standard for distributed
systems. We should all take the time every now and then to think
about the beauty, power, and simplicity of this standard.

I've always had a similar affinity for RSS. If content is going to be
distributed all over the world, it's essential to have an elegant
system for syndicating and subscribing to content sources. On top of
that, a huge percentage of content sites adopted this standard years
ago and still maintain it to this day. Man, are we lucky.  I can't
believe how many people still browse from site to site or just take
what they can get from Twitter, et al.

It's easy to get swept up in the latest trends in technology.
Hardware, apps, development frameworks, social networks and so on.
It's never ending. But too often it takes us away from what I really
want to be able to do with technology. Give me a browser, an RSS
reader, and an email account and I'm all set. These are the standards
that are built to last. Everything else just comes and goes.

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