“Artificial intelligence” is a failed technology. It’s time we described it that way.

Slowly catching up on my RSS feed and I just read Dave's post “Why would anybody start a website?”. Obviously, Dave's post is right up my street but it reminded me of a random notes post on my phone that I wrote a while back.

Why build a website?

Why knit a jumper with your bare hands?

Why cook a homemade meal from scratch?

Why paint in a canvas?

Why fix a broken thing?

Why write a letter?

Why anything really?

We, humans, are driven to touch and craft with our body. Deep down we crave that. Website making is a digital craft.

There, I let out a draft from my phone and it is now in my blog. Why not?

Anyway, I love how the "no thought is original" is real. Turns out, one day before I started this draft on my blog, Jim Nielsen also did a similar comparison. They're smarter than me, listen to them!

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I’m a pretty humble guy, so most people don’t know this extremely impressive fact about me: Raymond Chen once mentioned me on The Old New Thing, the classic Windows development blog.

No, he didn’t mention me by name nor did he provide any way to identify me, but I still deserve credit for how little I boast about this stunning achievement.

Cleaning out some old boxes trying to find an old work contract I came across a sticker sheet I got back when HTML5 became a standard that has all the icons on there the W3C defined as part of the “web reboot”: I posted it around on social media to see who can remember them […]

We've got a new blog over at Folio and I've used it as an opportunity to write somewhat of a love letter to hypertext and the World Wide Web.

Here's the post - How Folio connects with suppliers. After a bit of nostalgia-gazing into the history of the web, the post explains a few different mechanisms for facilitating "procurement" workflows - aka business to business transactions. Also, the post's got all sorts of nice diagrams, courtesy of Folio's co-founder + designer + engineer + musician + all the things Al Hertz.

I'm looking forward to sharing more about how Folio makes procurement easy, thanks to the web, on our Folio blog. Building tools for procurement has really given me an even greater appreciation for esoteric document formats and protocols (like EDI). Documents are fun! Everything's a document! It's documents all the way down!