"Everything we do to make it harder to create a website or edit a web page, and harder to learn to code by viewing source, promotes that consumerist vision of the web.
Pretending that one needs a team of professionals to put simple articles online will become a self-fulfilling prophecy. Overcomplicating the web means lifting up the ladder that used to make it possible for people to teach themselves and surprise everyone with unexpected new ideas."
idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm
@grainloom i have so many mixed feelings about that essay.
@nightpool such as?
@grainloom uh i dont remember exactly but i mostly stand by the same stuff i wrote in this tumblr post two years ago https://nightpool.tumblr.com/post/136513654545/the-website-obesity-crisis
@nightpool @grainloom ooh is that foster city in the header?
@amphetamine the header on my mobile layout is Astoria, Oregon: http://padehler.tumblr.com/post/131299045612/astoria-oregon-101115-shot-with-a-1947-kodak
@nightpool that's interesting, same bridge design from foster city to hayward in the east SF bay
@amphetamine (which bit? "Always Coming Home" or the header to my mobile layout?)