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Sometimes software projects become a parody of the industry, this feels like one of those times. Abstraction astronauting to the 10th power, "A block is structu

Sometimes software projects become a parody of the industry, this feels like one of those times. Abstraction astronauting to the 10th power, "A block is structured data" okay so like nearly ANYTHING? "You can send structured data between apps"... so it's JSON. "But also things like images!" ok, so files you've reinvented files. Maybe there is something actually useful here but Christ nobody is going to know based on this website.

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anderspitman 5y ago
Funny you invoke astronauting, given that AFAIK Joel Spolsky (involved in this project) coined or at least popularized the term: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2001/04/21/dont-let-architecture-astronauts-scare-you/ https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2001/04/21/dont-let-architect...
slx26 5y ago
>> Why would I want to build blocks with the Block Protocol? >> Blocks built with the Block Protocol can easily pass data between applications because the data within each block is structured. Yeah, what you said. What's their problem? What better world do they imagine? What's the approach taken on their solution? Very poorly explained. EDIT: Joel's article is much, much, much more convincing.