Scripting News: Tuesday, April 8, 2025
Tuesday, April 8, 2025 Today's song: Come on Eileen . # The big vision behind WordLand # I believe that eventually WordPress will be the hub for writers the way the web itself became the the hub for apps. Initially, the web wasn't the best place to host apps, the Mac had a much more developed set of meaningful features for app devs, and we already knew the Mac APIs where the web was strange and incomplete. # Yet most of the energy in AppLand quickly shifted to the web because of three advantages it had: # Anyone could publish for it, there was no platform vendor. # The networking model was open and simple, where the Mac's was hidden behind incomplete and poorly written docs. # The Mac's networking only worked on the Mac at a time when Windows was becoming dominant, and the web offered simplicity that neither platform could match. # The web made writing network apps a joy, where the Mac made it a slog. No matter...