Modern Web 101: From Free Software Fetishism to Free Web

sometimes the CLI is the correct tool for the job and its interesting that Microsoft is going down the cli route with powershell

Nothing you said is wrong, and I don't really like what the modern web has become. But I can't see how you'd build a better platform, then build something that drives adoption of that platform while there's so much dev attention on the web. Maybe it's possible, and maybe I just lack vision.

I don't understand why people buy chromebooks to then enable the developer mode which can wipe your data if you are careless and then install a different operating system or crouton instead of just getting a equivalent laptop with windows and then do the same.

Foreword : For someone whom I have met much more time lobbying/selling the virtue of Free Software to the administration to have his private owned companies make benefits from the public money, it is the kind of shaming on Free Software devs I take a moral stance in NOT accepting. I might have heard him on the phone asking our company to rig a market by agreeing on price while on an open invitation to tender. So, I have a strong beef against patronizers that are worth being patronized.

I still am not convinced by modern web development, not as a free software devs, but as a user.

I hate above all ... the design and UX.

I cannot convince myself after years of experiencing CLI as a very convenient way to read infos and automate my task that web is better.

web is about making wrapper around scripts. It is like an animal who has 10 kg of skin for 1kg of muscle. It is RIGID as a dogma. You cannot pipe web applications, unify them, have a consistent information. It is pre-historic IT. I even find curses more interesting.

OS have authentication built-in often done right, but each an every websites recreate their own poorly. Isn't it a waste of effort and duplication?

What is more troubling is the horrible lack of consistency in the presentation and method for getting information. The strength of terminal is : consistency, readable fonts, consistent layout/navigation and fast access to information. Scrolling the web for information pisses me off. I love man, perldoc, pydoc. The web is as if you had one kind of man per application, one new ncurses, keyboard shortcut, files per apps. Web is inconsistent and would deserved to be questioned as a lingua franca of information technologies.

There is no added value in disrupting a user each an every time he/she does the classical task of ITs: reading/writing.

There is no consistent handling of most keys like copy/paste/tabs.

There is no «typography» of the web. Information deserves consistency.

We are in 2016 the web is resulting in multiplying the manual copy and degradation of sensitive information.

I belong to a country where accents in surname are part of our identity. Most of the web sites still handle this poorly.

And to someone telling me how to exercise my own freedom, I would answer to the author of the article the worlds of another free software actor in France (the authors are french btw) I do What The Fuck I want, don't come patronizing me about how I do exercise my own freedom, especially my freedom of thinking.

>If we're going to try to make a universal content platform, we should at least wait until someone does a good job of it.

I don't think that will happen in my lifetime. We have to live with what already have. Yes they are bad choices but everyone pretends it's the best we have because it's crossplatform and you can just type a link into your address bar without installing anything. These two things are great for both the developers and the users.