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Tom Coates
Personal blog · plasticbag.orgwebculture
Tom Coates's personal blog at plasticbag.org covers web and culture. Since 2007, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 15 times, most often “How Threads Will Integrate with the Fediverse”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Most-linked posts?
- How Threads Will Integrate with the Fediverse3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-01-11
- What you should know before starting a doctorate...2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2008-08-22
What Hacker News says?
Threads has already started testing bi-directional follows with ActivityPub. And the plan is to rollout a "mixed Fediverse and Threads experience where you will be able to follow Mastodon users within Threads, and reply to them and like them" by late 2024. http://plasticbag.org/archives/2024/01/how-threads-will-inte...
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on “Bluesky has launched RSS feeds”Submitted How Threads Will Integrate with the Fediverse as a story · 28 points
HN discussionMaybe check Tom's leaving-Yahoo post? There's a paragraph listing a bunch of the devs: "So I want to personally thank Seth Fitzsimmons, Samantha Tripodi, Jeannie Yang, Chris Martin, Ben Ward, Kevin Ryan, Phil Pearson, Rabble, Arnab Nandi, Simon King, Mor Naaman, Ayman Shamma and everyone else who worked on Fire Eagle at any point in its life. I learned an enormous amount from all of you." http://plasticbag.org/archi…
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on “Yahoo Pipes”Submitted What you should know before starting a doctorate... as a story · 16 points
HN discussionTo anyone who remembers the original post made by Tom Coates over here: http://plasticbag.org/archives/2004/06/developing_a_url_stru... This new post is a substantial expansion on the reasoning, the implementation, and the depth of the thinking reflected in the URL structure that the BBC uses. I was contracting at Red Bee Media for a portion of this time, and the project work to support a lot of this moved at an inc…
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on “Designing a URL structure for BBC programmes”Submitted Should we encourage self-promotion and lies? as a story · 5 points
HN discussionAlmost half of your citations come from one source, and they're all essentially opinion articles. Of course they are opinion articles. Saying the university is a pillar of civilization and promoter of the truth is an opinion. Saying the university is a schelertoric priesthood is an opinion. Nonetheless, one of these opinions more closely reflects reality. Yes, half the articles I cited come from one source. That aut…
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on “Colleges Consider 3-Year Degrees To Save Undergrads Time, Money”Submitted How Threads Will Integrate with the Fediverse as a story · 4 points
HN discussionMy programming (development) resources include sources that are as much a evolution of the Internet itself. There's news:, pre Web, then web 1/1.5 and finally web2.0. You may notice the sites are not always exclusively about "programming" . Why? Well I find that a lot of the best stuff occurs at the edges of programming/development in lots of different areas. This wide scanning of sources is an attempt to avoid the…
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on “Ask YC: Your best programming websites/blogs”Submitted Permalinks and Paradigms as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI would recommend checking out Tom Coates' "Web of Data" talk. Presentation: http://www.plasticbag.org/files/native/ Audio: http://www.webuser.co.uk/carsonworkshops/TomCoates.mp3 It explains that the data is the web site (app), or at least the most important part of it. By building a web app on top of an API you are immediately exposing the unique and interesting part of your service, the data. This leaves you, or a…
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on “Ask HN: When to do an API for my web app?”Submitted On Permalinks and Paradigms… (2003) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionHere's some fun followup on this steaming pile: http://www.plasticbag.org/archives/2007/09/ben_goldacre_vs_c...
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on “Jessica Alba is Hot, Mathematically Speaking”Submitted On Being Grown Ups About Childish Behaviour as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Is the pace of change really such a shock? as a story · 1 points
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