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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Consumer web s/w mapped to furniture Beta products: Half-done artisan furniture; carpenter may die before it’s done Paid SaaS: hotel furniture Ad-supported, closed: crates in slum-tents Ad-supported, open: IKEA (w/ IFTTT+Zapier) Managed-hosted: rental Hand-coded: self-built
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This is depressing. Pick 2 of 3 of web software/furniture for your digital life: 1. Affordable 2. Quality 3. Does what YOU want As with any consumer category, the only way to get all 3 is to become a producer to at least some degree. Ikea-level producer ability is minimum.
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The truth of “everyone must learn to code” depends on analogy you have in mind: “It’s like everyone must learn to... a) read/write” (wrong) b) fly planes” (wrong) c) drive” (partly right, for opsec behaviors) d) cook” (wish it meant this) e) assemble Ikea furniture” (most true)
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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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