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   SerTapTap (She/Her)🎮🏳️‍⚧️ (sirtaptap@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 24-Jul-2023 22:44:22 JST SerTapTap (She/Her)🎮🏳️‍⚧️

   Let me tell you the secret of the "Everything App".

   It's real, it's not called X, and it's about 33 years old. It's called a Web Browser.

   Despite a decade of walled gardens trying hard to ruin it, you can still do pretty much any task you need on the web.

   You can even make websites into apps with Progressive Web Apps (two clicks on WordPress).

   The everything app is old, and under siege daily. But it works, it's resilient, and it's magical.

   #x #Twitter #webdev #tech #web

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     SuperDicq (superdicq@minidisc.tokyo)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Jul-2023 05:15:11 JST SuperDicq

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     @SirTapTap@mastodon.social I think Elon's brilliant idea with an "Everything App" is to basically make something like WeeChat for the western market. A horrible idea.

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     jwz (jwz@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Jul-2023 22:03:53 JST jwz

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     • McSinyx

     @cnx @SirTapTap As always I apologize for whatever primordial role I played in kneecapping democracy.

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     McSinyx (cnx@larkspur.one)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Jul-2023 22:03:55 JST McSinyx

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     • jwz

     33 years old? Gotta pump those numbers up! Emacs is 46!

     Every program surviving natural selection has or shall become an everything app; to quote @jwz:

     Apps that you “live in” all day have pressure to become everything and do everything. An app for editing text becomes an IDE, then an OS. An app for displaying hypertext documents becomes a mail reader, then an OS.

     The ambiguization of programs and services into apps for the general public was an intentional mistake so that spyware corporations can deliver executables instead of data, resulting in walled garden that can only be accessed by those with (soon-to-be literal) neural implants phoning home every other second. Let’s not kid ourselves and pretend that web apps riddled with client-side black boxes are any good.

     (Not disagreeing with ya, @SirTapTap, just needed to rant.)

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     FinchHaven (finchhaven@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Jul-2023 22:03:57 JST FinchHaven

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     @SirTapTap

     I got into a back-and-forth yesterday that ended up being exactly about this

     His big issue came down to he was using some "app" to reach Mastodon on his Mac laptop and it wasn't working well

     I was like "Dude, why are you using an app? What's wrong with Safari?"

     It was like he had no idea what I was even talking about

     "Safari? Like a web browser? I can do that?"

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