Also see comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34198759

A classic, written by ESR who unfortunately turned out to be a bastard. Still, made many a meaningful contribution to the Bazaar

A good tool for taking a long view of the web in terms of performance and optimization.

I’m interested in the consensus model used by TigerBeetle that is mentioned here.

Continuing the discussion from Beyond Markdown because I think @jgm’s jdot deserves its own forum topic. Link to a Playground created by @dtinth: https://djot-playground-poc.vercel.app

Various thoughts from writing a parser

Extensibility in djot

Should there be a built-in format for metadata, or should that be considered distinct from the markup syntax? If so, what? Do we need structured keys such as YAML provides? Would be nice to avoid the complexity of YAML, but otherwise YAML…

As an aesthetic artifact I think this ranks as a truly mega contribution to the web. Sure, it isn’t my style, but it shows a level of expression that the web only very rarely surfaces. Skeuomorphic, three dimensional, opinionated. Might we all be

Of notable interest to me are his ideas expressed in ‘As We May Think’ where he posited the potential of what he called the ‘memex’.