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Conversational account. For work follow @ribbonfarm, @breaking_smart, @artofgig. Tweets are 90% vacuous views, apathetically held. Mediocritopian. IKEA builder.

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    1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 16 May 2019
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      I’m moving the breaking smart list to substack this week. There will be broken links galore, which I may or may not ever get around to fixing. Main immediate reason: substack is free while mailchimp is now costing me $90/mo.

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    2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 16 May 2019
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      There is also future optionality for a thread of paid content. Like maybe a podcast or more researchy posts. But in general I decided to take the leap because it feels like content infrastructure is poised for a paradigm shift.

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 16 May 2019
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      Substack, static sites, paid content, encrypted messaging, slack are on the right side. Mailchimp, wordpress, ad-supported or affiliate-links supported content, public media, are on the wrong side. Lot of affection for stuff in the second bucket, but not a lot of hope.

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        2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 16 May 2019
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          Going a level deeper, headless CMSes, AWS lambda, nex-gen pubsub mechanisms (descended from RSS) are on the right side of history. Basic search (ie Google), heavy private backends, anonymous discovery, are on the wrong side. The web is going underground.

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        3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 16 May 2019
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          One sign I take seriously: surface web tech is increasingly getting anti-text. It is getting *heavily* optimized for images. Aka packaging. The wordpresss ecosystem should be called imagepress now. Text must now flow in subterranean rivers.

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        4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 16 May 2019
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          When I started in 2007, most Wordpress themes were text oriented and it was a Wild West. Now a couple of big theme frameworks dominate. Genesis, the top one, features many excellent image-first themes. The theme I use, appropriately called “Prose”, isn’t supported anymore.

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        5. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 16 May 2019
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          Ironic huh? “Word”press no longer supports “prose”. The drift towards packaging I think reflects the rise of Instagram in particular. Presaged by Pinterest winning out over bookmarking sites. You’re either pretty in public, or prosey in pipes.

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        6. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 16 May 2019
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          Venkatesh Rao Retweeted Venkatesh Rao

          It’s not just ribbonfarm (as a prose-heavy blog in both content and presentation) that’s become a compile target. Textual language itself is now a compile target past strings of ~280 characters.https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1129047877135691776?s=20 …

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          Shit, ribbonfarm has now turned into a compile-target under my other front-end writing activities (twitter and mailing lists...). It’s become the personal JavaScript/CSS of my brain. Harder to write raw. Or even like C perhaps.
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        7. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 16 May 2019
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          Venkatesh Rao Retweeted

          I’ve seen the twitter-REPL analogy made several times now, including by me. Remember the original line by Om Malik that it is the messaging bus of the internet? Wrong end of the stack. https://twitter.com/Aelkus/status/1129050965557092352?s=20 …

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        8. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 16 May 2019
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          Venkatesh Rao Retweeted Star Simpson

          This is a subtly different way of putting it. It isn’t just the REPL or deeper/longer/more persistent text layers. It’s the REPL of society. Search “twitter REPL” for more flavors.https://twitter.com/starsandrobots/status/930861196923748352?s=20 …

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          Twitter: society's REPL
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        9. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 16 May 2019
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          The ultimate compile target is the collective unconscious, with code that persists across generations of course 😎 Instagram, Wordpress frontend, static sites Twitter Mailing lists Headless CMSes AWS lambda ... ... ... Collective unconscious Cthulhu

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        1. Made in Cosmos  💫‏ @made_in_cosmos 16 May 2019
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          Yup, paid content is probably the only way out of this ad-driven clickbait insanity. There are solutions to do this with WordPress, but they're super complex to set up and time-consuming to maintain. We need something super simple, designed specifically for indie creators.

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