Zapier/IFTTT are the IKEA of the web. No code/low code environments where you can build cheap, janky digital furniture that breaks easily and is hard to move, but easy to assemble with an Allen wrench and a bureaucratic instruction manual.https://twitter.com/RealGeneKim/status/1151002534598758401 …
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If you’ve done a few, you realize Ikea design has a standard, simple DIY vocabulary. Same types of fasteners etc. Learning those is like UI literacy.
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Wait... but... how does one learn to assemble Ikea furniture? Surely, you just get a manual and... do it. Which doesn't help you with any other piece of Ikea furniture, because you need a new, unique manual that comes with it. I was totally on board with the tweet until e)
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You can assemble Ikea furniture without knowing how to read I guess
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I have a) in mind and I'd love if you could expand on why being able to read and write is not essential (barring competetive machine transcription).
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I’m saying the analogy between “everyone must learn to code” and “everyone must learn to read/write” is ill-posed. Coding ability is not a literacy.
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One perspective is to interpret any absolute statement someone makes as a 80/20 distribution. So in this context, about 80% of people should learn to code.
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