Osmose

I make websites and chiptunes!

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AKAs:
Lapsed Neurotypical
JavaScript's Strongest Warrior
Fake Podcast Host
Thotleader
Vertically Integrated Boyfriend
Your Fave's Mutual
Certified 5x Severals by the RIAA
Inconsistently Medicated
The Source That Views Back
Carnally Known
The Alternative


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At some point you have to wonder if it's even worth designing webpages at all if no one ever actually looks at them and just reads cliff notes versions of them. Might as well just be submitting facts to some database instead of bothering with the whole... page.......

My God. It's the semantic web.


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i have kind of become a semantic web hater ngl

<Widdershins> i think it's probably true that the semantic web was both a head in the clouds idea that was doomed to fail, and an actually short-sighted and bad idea to boot
<Widdershins> it's a nice dream to think about data being organized but you have to actually grapple with the consequences of this
<Widdershins> not just questions of whether a giant ant colony will organize your CD collection

to be fair, websites DO suck and looking at them often IS a stupid waste of time

the history of the web is endless conflict between users who just want the information they're looking for and website owners who want to lure users through a bunch of monetization hooks

The history of the web happened in Neopets guilds, on those weird Java-based collaborative artboard chat sites, on lists of Castlevania MIDIs, within SMF-based forums, on Wikipedia, on GameFAQs, on arXiv, on Newgrounds, on YTMND, on The Pirate Bay, on Cohost.

Websites are amazing and defined the arc of my life and those of many others. I don't think I've wasted my life on them.