Frustrating At Scale

2025-02-17

Large companies find HTML & CSS frustrating “at scale” because the web is a fundamentally anti-capitalist mashup art experiment, designed to give consumers all the power.

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- Miriam Eric Suzanne, 24 November 2019 (originally via Twitter)

This. This is what I needed to be reminded, today.

When somebody complains that the Web is hard to scale, they're already working against the grain of the Web.

At its simplest - and the way we used to use it - a website is a collection of .html files, one of which might have a special name so the webserver knows to put it first.

Writing HTML is punk rock. A "platform" is the tool of the establishment.

(Writing Gemtext is even-more-punk-rock, I guess...)

Thanks, Mia.