one more time for the people in the back. until end users have un-gated full control over their software, commit access = domination over end users. 3rd party dependencies = giving strangers domination over end users. if you are making changes to a piece of code with users who aren't you and you aren't considering whether your technical decisions are consolidating power (whether by using complicated frameworks that exclude people from future work or by making assumptions in your coe like everybody can afford a domain name and a permanent IP or by giving authors more control over formatting than readers) then you are not taking your responsibilities seriously and should not have that power at all

New #year's #resolution: #embrace #'personal #branding' #by #formatting #all #my #posts #like #this

This, except unironically: https://makefrontendshitagain.party/ ; interfaces ought to be rich & individual representations of the underlying models, unless people are required/forced to use them, in which case all formatting should be able to be stripped automatically.

Formatting for Gopher with GNU troff http://davebucklin.com/play/2018/03/04/gopher-groff.html