this resonates with my experience, that a lot of the best designs out there are often accidental it's also hard to design a good api because "what it gets used for" and "what it is designed for" rarely match up in practice too
I like how Studio Ghibli films are like, "Cool, a new monster friend!" and "A witch and her cat!" when you're a kid, and then "Do you ever think about your parents dying?" and "What if you're so burned out you can't do the thing you love anymore?" when you're an adult
Back when I was finding my feet in tech everybody was buzzing about building positive change. Somewhere along the way, something changed. Fortunately for us though, tech is not the first industry forced to defend itself against dubious practices. What might we learn if we were to look elsewhere?
Looking elsewhere - Robb Owen
Against the backdrop of mass layoffs, LLMs, site-builders and vibe coding what does it mean to conscientiously build for the web, and where do we go from here?
robbowen.digital
im a zelda dickrider, def buying those expansion packs even if im just gonna play them for like 1hr
to me, one of the wonderful things about these movies is that they exist outside of our reality; they're fantasy stories that use their just-beyond-our-world settings to shine light on how principles of love and friendship and loyalty and environmentalism thrive even in realms we don't recognize
