John Gruber writes about the pitfalls of centralised video in the wake of Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension: The big problem is YouTube. With YouTube, Google has a centralized chokehold on video. We need a way that’s as easy and scalable to host video content, independently, as it is for written content. I don’t know what the answer to that is, technically, but we ought to start working on it with urgency. I’m not sure this is the whole problem. Sure hosting video is one part of the picture, ...| Leon Mika
I think the industry’s push to design software packages as if they’re going to be reused was a mistake. This was a major selling point with technologies back in the day, such as Java. Build a software component once, then reuse it for other projects. I don’t really know what the original motivation was. Probably because people wanted to cut the cost of developers reimplementing the same thing over and over again (how many C developers does it take to implement a linked list? Well, how m...| Leon Mika
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A new project called Dequoter was started to unquote a JSON …| lmika.org
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