This week was a sad week for America. I hope that people will be held responsible for their acts, and that we can all learn from these events.
Despite everything going on, I wrote two blog posts this week. One blog post on the long-term promise of the blockchain to solve important problems, and one on why we need to add new tags to the official HTML specification.
I'm positively surprised by the many reactions on the blockchain post; a few people pointed out Drupal-blockchain integrations. Maybe a topic of a future blog post.
Curious for your thoughts!
PS: The photo above is taken at a barista class I took in early 2020. I've since made at least 500 lattes.
I enjoyed reading Vitalik's 2020 endnotes over the holidays. Vitalik is one of the founders of Ethereum, and one of the most interesting people in the world to follow right now.
Like Vitalik, I'm interested in economic systems, multi-stakeholder coordination, and public good governance and sustainability. How do we create Open Source communities that will thrive for hundreds of years to come? How do we make sure the Open Web is still thriving in a thousand years? These are some of the questions I think about. [Read more ...]
Every day, millions of new web pages are added to the internet. Most of them are unstructured, uncategorized, and nearly impossible for software to understand. It irks me.
Adding new semantic markup options to the HTML specification is the surest way to improve the semantic web, improve content reuse, and advance content authoring tools. Unfortunately, I don't see new tags being introduced. [Read more ...]
