Matilda, 1996

Content negotiation is a feature of HTTP that lets clients ask for, and servers return, different content types based on the request’s Accept header.

Sounds great, right? Well, no. Content negotiation is the classic example of an idea that sounds good in theory, but for the vast majority of web developers, turns out to be net harmful in practice. A few reasons: Continue reading →

Europe is the weirdest continent. I mean, Australia? Sure. Africa, North America, South America, definitely. But why does this awkward little spiky corner of Asia get to be its own whole thing, geographically? Weird.

OH: “Fortnite is the Facebook of video games.”

not for long

Human beings are both novelty seeking and change averse. We want everything to be both new and familiar, at the same time. It’s the worst. 😆

water surface tension patterns look fractal

Reading the Urbit whitepaper and this gem stopped me cold:

Nock is permanently frozen and will never need updating.

I guess you have to admire the chutzpah, if nothing else?