Dave Rupert: The web is something different <--- imperfection is part of it, deal with it :-)

Discovered Feb 11, 2021. Dave Ruppert: The web is something different
Most excellent quotes:
- “I’ve come to accept that if there are bugs on the web or if there’s a massive quality dip on a site you’re visiting… that is a sign the web is working. It means some unqualified person was able to skip past the gatekeepers and put something online. That’s a win for “The web is for everyone.” A permissive web is not without its performance, security, usability, and accessibility concerns, but all software lives in that tension and even native platforms get this wrong.
- The web is so much bigger than the little boxes we try to put it in. The web is good at many things and not great (yet) at others. The web is a snowball rolling down hill, absorbing other technologies along the way. The web is an interactive window across space and time, a near instant connection to anyone on the planet. The web is something different. I wish we’d see the web more for itself, not defined by its nearest neighbor or navel-gazing over some hypothetical pathway we could have gone down decades ago.”
Everybody thinks they are an expert on the following topics and most often they are wrong:
- The Web
- COVID-19
- Cars and traffic laws
- apps and how easy it is to change the software behind apps
- Bicycling for transit and just for the fun of it without training in mind (usually the self proclaimed bicycling experts are car drivers or weekend warriors who don’t actually bicycle for practical purposes or just for non competitive fun)