and there you have an unanswerable question! :-)
at an atomic level in computing, as others have said, it's a stream of ones and zeroes..
after that everything else is implementation, i.e how to interpret, use, store etc.
In fact it's one of the "bug bears" in computing that there are so many "data format standards" (used loosely not definitionally)..
or the age old joke:
"The good thing about (data) standards is there are so many of them!"
very cool, thanks for the video, enjoyed it, as well now being aware how easy it would be to 'project this' into something in the future should the need arise :-)
Ok, I get it, I love technical elegance too :-)
But if you'd like people to actually read what you write (and I get just writing for yourself too, I do a lot of that) then they shouldn't be the ones to pay the 'technical debt' IMO
Sadly nobody (nobody = vast majority of users now) knows about RSS anymore..
Text - absolutely, no hyperlinks or images in the actual content - ok. I get it.
However, it's like 10 minutes more work with the basic tools you outline to script outputting this stuff (without changing the base texts) into a browser in html with html links etc established through delivery code (which - html - after all, is the browsers lingua franca). IMO if you're bothering to put out content for users on the internet via http then it seems reasonable to do it in a way that they expect..
just my two penneth worth :-)
This thread (the HN comments) is quite interesting, as opposed to the article which says pretty much nothing and is an email harvesting exercise..
If you're going make a statement such as the title (particularly prefixed with I) then you better say something about your own experience and why you believe your 'title proposition' is true.. if not, and you're not just 'fishing' (for hits and/or email addresses), why bother?
A smattering from my audible listening list which I particularly remember liking (this might actually be a 'less read books' list sorry ;-) ): Michael Palin - Erebus ; Alan Moore - Jerusalem ; Graeme Green - Travel with my Aunt ; Karen Maitland - A Company of Liars ; Louis de Bernieres - Captain Correlli's Mandolin ; Umberto Eco - The Name of the Rose ; Nikolai Gogol - Dead Souls ; Robert Harris - Imperium trilogy ...
I'd second for Master & Margarita and almost anything by Dostoyevsky
At 55 I can relate.
I'm wondering in the tech space whether we happen to be the first generation that has spent our whole professional careers in tech (me electronics first, then computers, then networked systems, then internet systems, with a bit of dev. sprinkled throughout) and thus after 40 years of constant change you (or one) just gets to certain stage?
I know I'm done (at least professionally, I've retired), although I still tinker with tech daily but out of pure interest.
The last prof. gig I had I spent a lot of time thinking why am I spending so much time re-tooling, re-fixing, re-inventing the wheel? :-)