Mark Nottingham
Person on 4 sites
Web infrastructure engineer; chaired the IETF HTTPbis working group and co-authored core HTTP and Atom specifications.
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6 facts on wiqqi (opens wiqqi.app)
Who people, organisations and podcasts are, and how they connect, with sources.
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3 channels on ppll (opens ppll.app)
Where public figures publish, and what they are on record saying.
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10 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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Adoption of a protocol extension depends more on how much effort it takes to deploy than on how important it is to get right. (opens korrents.com)
“This means that adoption often depends more on how much effort is involved than how important it is to get things right.”
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A protocol extension gets deployed correctly in proportion to how visibly it fails when implemented wrong. (opens korrents.com)
“Another pattern: an extension gets deployed correctly in proportion to how loudly it fails when you get it wrong.”
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Interoperability pressure from browser vendors drives migration to standardized protocol mechanisms. (opens korrents.com)
“That indicates that interoperability pressure - in this case, from browsers - matters.”
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Adoption of a protocol extension depends more on how much effort it takes to deploy than on how important it is to get right. (opens korrents.com)
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12 recommendations on rcmnd (opens rcmnd.app)
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Voigtlander 25mm f/0.95 Nokton (opens rcmnd.app)
“The Nokton is amazing; an absurdly fast lens that gives amazing control over focus and has a really beautiful image as well.”
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Panasonic GF-1 (opens rcmnd.app)
“I don't really shoot photographs of anything but travel and family any more, but my current camera is a Panasonic GF-1, which I'm very happy with.”
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Safari (opens rcmnd.app)
“Most of my time in GUI apps is spent in browsers; I use Safari for most browsing (making me a frequent target for derision among Web devs), but also dipping into Firefox, Chrome and Chrome Canary.”
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Voigtlander 25mm f/0.95 Nokton (opens rcmnd.app)