It's so refreshing to see good 'ol blue links, that are underlined and stand out accordingly from the rest of the copy. So many sites try to get too fancy with links nowadays and you can't even tell what is a link and what isn't.
I'm a fucking webmaster
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#54This is awesome :)
correction: it is fucking awesome
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#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
It doesn't read that way to me, it just reads as an adjective to make the article more "shocking" and illustrate the role of a webmaster to appear more against the grain of our little IT/startup world. I think the rest of the essay does a great job of explaining why and how webmasters were so important and how they were/are the ultimate problem solver. No ego boosting qualifiers necessary.
Mainly those who are indeed somewhat shocked (usually due to some still active puritan heritage) actually think that such words were meant to "make the article more 'shocking'". The rest don't even blink when we see them -- especially from countries without a history of a prudish outlook on things. One can see people getting slashed with knives and shot in the head on PG13 movies -- words like these are nothing compa…
The primary use of cursing is when one is frustrated or angry and wants to draw attention to an issue. I think it's safe to say that adding a swear word to a title is going to draw attention to the title simply because the use of the swear word.
I'm not shocked, I'm just bored of the "I'm a fucking " or "This fucking " trend. Just because swearing hasn't become so blasé to a person doesn't mean they have an "active puritan heritage".
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#56I think this needs to be in a nostalgia webring.
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#59Why do I need to make a website? I've got a Twitter feed and a Facebook page.
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#60Some people want to be left alone in their html `pages` club where they check for errors in the w3c validator. Some people want to make the browser usurp native applications and become the baseline for user interactions.
I don't look back at the 90's with rose-colored glasses. Web was often overlooked and we were considered 2nd rate citizens among `real` software developers. These days, the browser is a competitive alternative to native and it was years of struggle to get here. Over taking a decade of "web" understanding and convincing people that "web" is capable of more than just html.
The web is made up of people's decisions and their technology choices they choose to use. Which is basically written in every alistapart article since 1999. So let's not sit in nostalgia. Push forward with better technology because this thinking only makes it harder for those that invent and struggling for adoption from `thought leaders` who wish the world was just a series of hyperlinked XML pages.