Post #2905147
2025-11-04 08:49 UTC
@danirabbit@mastodon.online Maybe I’m old as fuck inspired by old as fuck people like Alan Kay, but websites being documents was a mistake. 🙃
The most general kind of document is a program. The web should have been a platform to allow anyone to create and publish applications (which includes documents), and browsers should have been virtual machines which run these untrusted applications in a sandboxed environment.
Alan Kay - Normal Considered Harmful
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvmTSpJU-Xc
cc’ing @hayley@social.applied-langua.ge and @Gnuxie@social.applied-langua.ge who are working on something like that -
Utena: A system to fulfil my desire for maximalist computing
https://applied-langua.ge/~gnuxie/posts/utena-introduction.html
Utena: Draft Specification of a Maximalist Computing System
https://cal-coop.gitlab.io/utena/utena-specification/main.pdf
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@hayley@social.applied-langua.ge 2025-11-04 09:02
@contrapunctus@fe.disroot.org @danirabbit@mastodon.online @Gnuxie@social.applied-langua.ge in this house we enjoy meta-media