Quoting Matt Webb, Colophon, Interconnected, 2024

24 years is longer than many programming languages are popular and definitely most frameworks. In that time I’ve cycled through being good and rubbish at software development at least twice.

So following the principles of web longevity, what matters is the data, i.e. the posts, and simplicity. I want to minimise maintenance, not panic if a post gets popular, and be able to add new features without thinking too hard. If push comes to shove, I need my site to be simple enough such that I could re-write the blogging engine in half a day or so (which has happened).

I don’t deliberately choose boring technology but I think a lot about longevity on the web (that’s me writing about it in 2017) and boring technology is a consequence.

— Matt Webb, Colophon, Interconnected, 2024 (via)

9:43pm on November 3, 2024 from Istanbul, Turkey.


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