If you are a developer, and you feel bad about not knowing everything, I have one item I want you to memorize:

No one knows everything. No one.

The best coders in the world only know a small fraction of everything there is to know about coding. The only skill you need is to know 1) how to identify what you don’t know / when you don’t know something; and 2) how to look things up, how to read documentation, how to try & try & try and keep trying while things fail, until they work. That’s literally the job of writing code.

As a person who 300+ shows in my 20s, I’ve been sitting here for an hour trying to figure out how Beyoncé’s team did that show. A one time performance? On a festival stage with one hour to complete load-in? With perfect everything — sound, choreography, CAMERA, live editing… At least 1,000 people worked that show. And I’m not counting the festival staff. I mean her show. On stage, backstage, load-in, production, filming, streaming. How in the world? How? No, really, how?

I’m glad we are finally having a conversation about how horrible Facebook’s spying operation is. Can we talk about Google’s yet? We’ve let Google collect all of our email for a decade. And for many of us, all of our work documents. Their bots read & store our corporate docs. Why? And if you use Chrome, Google is watching everything you do online. If you use Android, they are collecting data history on literally everything you do — on and off line. Why do we opt into this? Because we like the UX of their their free software?

Thinking a lot tonight about liberal white supremacy. Conservative white supremacy is known and understood. Backed by naked hate. Liberal white supremacy is wrapped in false pretext. Wealth. Ideas that European culture is superior. White graphic design tradition is simply better. After a lifetime of allegeric reaction to the snobbery & bullshit of the “mainstream” art / design world, I’ve been really trying over the last three years to not reject it. To absorb the lessons. Read the books. Learn the canon. Force myself to try their ideas of a grid, etc.

I'm getting tired of the myth that's going around that the web was only intended to be for ‘documents’ — sharing, & later styling, documents — and that’s why it’s been ‘weak’. Wasn’t designed for ‘apps’.

BS.

The web was invented for sharing an incredible variety of information. That's what we do today. Share information. The internet of the late 80s had chat, discussion, reading, data — just like today.

The difference is not the intended purpose. The difference is in the power & speed of computers. And that technology needs time to evolve complexity.