Benedict Evans: "If all you're doing is wrapping up SQL and putting a car logo instead of a bike logo... you're screwed."
AI doesn't kill software. It kills software that's just a thin UI over a database.
We're building Pagelove so the UI is the DB.
🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/4SsTaeOZUvOUzHDPGdYgpT
Right-click any web app. View Source.
What do you see?
Not the content. An empty <div id="app"> and a JS bundle.
The meaning arrives later, assembled at runtime.
The web used to be inspectable. We traded that for richer apps.
Part 1 of 4: page.love/blog/01-the-hollow-web.html
Agree?
We've been quietly building something...
The web has become impossibly complex. What used to be simple HTML pages are now buried under layers of databases, APIs, frameworks, and infrastructure.
We think there's a better way.
The waitlist is open if you're curious: page.love
The Invokers Web API could be lovely, for example but why must I specify a command attribute with an id value? Why on earth can't I do this:
<button command="--remove" closest="tr">
Gosh the web really is broken isn't it.
I can't help but think we took a wrong turn somewhere.
For a while I've wanted someone to create a web component for a Wardley map, but no-one ever has, so I've done it. It's not perfect, but it works nicely for me.
jamesaduncan.github.io/Wardley-map/
It does seem like it is time to be here, rather than there.
Always thrilling when Amazon lets me know they have a deal going on "something I'd love", and it turns out to be a 3.5" SATA mounting bracket.
I really wish that:
document.querySelector('body > *').querySelector(':scope');
didn't return null.
Yes; Although there has been a cult of "Agile mindset" - or at least lip service to it - for over a decade, but it's done little to make fundamental change.
The needed changes are structural within the departments and ALBs. Without structural change, an agile mindset doesn't help.
Oh no...
Pat McFadden, please...
I've been working on this for 10+ yrs now.
It's been tried. Startup culture doesn't exist in a vacuum of trying, failing, and fixing.
It has everything to do with accountability, agency, and organisational respect for skills.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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