You Want Technology With Warts
I normally skip presentations because I prefer reading, but Building the Hundred-Year Web Service (YouTube) was worth the time.11 Note that despite “htmx” featuring in the title, very little of the presentation is actually about htmx. It is about choosing and using technology in such a way that it won’t require maintenance suddenly due to external factors changing. That’s a drum I’ve been banging for the last few years too, although less visibly. Petros observes that we know how to build bridges that last hundreds of years: stone, concrete, and steel can all do this with the right engineering. We also know how to build hypertext that is likely to last at least a few decades: use plain html and css. But, Petros asks, how do we create database-y web services that lasts for…
