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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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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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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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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The ultimate compile target is the collective unconscious, with code that persists across generations of course
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@aika_app for audio. Once I get around to releasing it...Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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I would say WP itself still has strong design pressure around writing. The theme market is where the image pressure is.
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'Ironic huh? “Word”press no longer supports “prose”.' Yes! I went through this, too, looking for a nicer theme for my text-heavy blog. There was *nothing*, and I stuck with the old, generic theme I've been using since forever.
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I use Prose on Genesis, which is a nice premium theme that's great for text. It's no longer actively supported, but I plan to use it till some update breaks it.
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I blame attention economy. You can't bring enough eyeballs to a huge wall of text when billions of cute kitties compete for everyone's attention. Unless you add an equally captivating photo yourself, no one will ever know. Again, we need better business models for the web.
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