Every paragraph of this text from @joanwestenberg.com is worth a quote: https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/the-cult-of-hard-mode-why-simplicity-offends-tech-elites
"In a culture that rewards the performance of struggle, doing things easily is the most subversive act available."
#Development #Analyses
The orders of complexity of websites · Why big web features fail small websites https://ilo.im/164nnv
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#Simplicity #Complexity #WebPlatform #WebTechnology #Websites #WebApps #CMS #IndieWeb #SmallWeb #BigWeb
#Simplicity patterns are folded by sadists 
I would not change the song the flute-girl sings
For all the diadems of weary kings,
His joys the Sultan shares with all the world,
His cares he keeps — a chain of glittering rings.
Omar Khayyám (1048-1123) Persian poet, mathematician, philosopher, astronomer [عمر خیام]
Rubáiyát [رباعیات] [tr. Le Gallienne (1897), # 201
Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/omar-khayyam/77973/
A quotation from Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
I would never use a long word, even, where a short one would answer the purpose. I know there are professors in this country who "ligate" arteries. Other surgeons only tie them, and it stops the bleeding just as well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809-1894) American poet, essayist, scholar
Lecture (1867-11-06), “Scholastic and Bedside Training,” Introductory Lecture, Harvard University School of Medicine
Sourcing, notes: wist.info/holmes-sr-oliver-wen…
You can make whatever cool, advanced, sophisticated group-chat-poll system you want, but you will never beat emoji-reactions-on-this-message.
Brothers Osborne - (I'm Good for Some but) I'm Not For Everyone
(simple theme about tolerance. Cool video - FYI @joncounts )
Today's top ten tag trends:
10: #VendrediLecture
9: #BrosiusGersdorf
8: #richterwahl
7: #WindowFriday
6: #ITAESP
5: #FensterFreitag
4: #JukeboxFridayNight
3: #exciteafictionalcharacter
2: #simplicity
1: #totp
Quite simply one of the best contemporary pianists out there.
Hania Rani - Live from Studio S2 in Warsaw
@Kay There’s also this wonderful cover version!
Steve ‘n’ Seagulls - Thunderstruck
AC/DC - Thunderstruck
(complex guitar but otherwise fairly simple, and many people remember it best for the riff and the shouts of Thunder!)
#Simplicity is now trending across Mastodon
Orville Peck - Daytona Sand
(simple song, simple approach to life. He sees it, he takes it, and is always running out the door)
Triosence - Basically It's All Quite Simple
From a Sanskrit devotional chant … and made more simple by cutting out a chunk of the instrumental (I guess I know the album version better than the single, my brain expected more).
Kula Shaker "Govinda"
And sometimes when you see someone you find attractive it might fill your head with simple thoughts …
C+C Music Factory "Oooh Baby"
Speaking of logic …
Scatterbrain "Logic"
If A is B and B is C, then A is C, see?
It's really easy
Here we go
For example
Here's some samples
We'll start slow …
The Police "De Do Do Do De Da Da Da"
