The deeper I get into this (unnamed) project the more convinced I am that GitHub makes a good object database for a CMS. I haven't hit any limits. It's slow-going only because I don't want to have to live with half-baked ideas long-term, as we did with Frontier. Obvious advantage here is that a big tech company is maintaining the back-end at scale with good economic terms. That is also its biggest disadvantage. On the other hand GIT is very much not exclusive to GitHub/Microsoft. So here's hoping haha that they don't Embrace & Extend devs out of the picture.#I've been thinking how software evolution works much like natural evolution. The more I learn, the better the fit. Now I understand why I like programming so much, esp projects that last years, even decades. If this is evolution, think about it, who's god? Haha. 💥#
One thing I know for sure, if you want to lead a rebirth of blogging, the first thing to do is to start blogging. The resurrection will not be led by non-bloggers.#- Reminds me of a public debate I had with Yochai Benkler many years ago. I was stating something like this, that the best software is developed by users. He asked if you had to have cancer to develop a treatment. He stumped me with that. ;-)#
- My response, many years later, is that blogging is not a disease, not something to be avoided, and the tools we have for it are for human expression. A scientist would not understand the language of the human blogger if she weren't herself a blogger.#
- On the other hand a cancer researcher has to think like the disease, not the human. There is no chance (as far as I can imagine) for the doctor to become the cancer. So the treatments have to be developed without the first-hand experience of being a user.#