MIME types are a great example of shit that absolutely shouldnโt work, and is an obviously poor design, but that works effectively trillions of times a day for billions of people, without them even noticing.
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MIME types are a great example of shit that absolutely shouldnโt work, and is an obviously poor design, but that works effectively trillions of times a day for billions of people, without them even noticing. Hey, everyone who follows me who is hacking on somethigna round ActivityPub/fediverse โ please reply here and share a link to your app/GitHub/Glitch! Would love to show off all the creativity that's happening right now. (And please boost so your friends can share their projects too.)
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@anildash Iโm working on a general-purpose ActivityPub utility library for #Clojure over at https://github.com/jahfer/clj-activitypub. A lot of the plumbing is already there, but it needs some niceties to make it useful! @anildash I'm building https://pixelfed.org and https://fediverse.info! I think the fediverse has a lot of potential, and it's so cool to see tech leaders like you embrace it! a reminder: just as you donโt have to amplify facsists or give them your time, energy and attention on Twitter, you sure as fuck donโt have to bring it over here. Over on Glitch, a playlist of apps for exploring and developing for the fediverse, featuring creations by @Luca @darius @andypiper andโฆ you, if you tell me about your cool Glitch apps! https://glitch.com/@glitch/fediverse-of-madness People are really not realizing how fucking terrible the Musk era of Twitter is going to be. They see it as some amusing novelty, when itโs actually going to reveal how many places Twitter was actually making *good* choices โ because those will end. |
@anildash Why? Honest question. They seem simple, to the point, precise, accurate. I'm not seeing what would make you think they shouldn't work.
@anildash I'm old enough to have experienced the invention of MIME types and, with it, the idea of email attachments. It was a thoroughly awful hack, but really clever given the constraints of technology at the time.
@anildash IANA (and the IETF process of course) doesn't get enough love!