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Thanks! Yep, I think we need an about page, and maybe a few pull quotes from the articles. The first article from Ink & Switch is the canonical source of the na
by jamesgpearce 4y ago
Thanks! Yep, I think we need an about page, and maybe a few pull quotes from the articles. The first article from Ink & Switch is the canonical source of the name and the idea.
I think a lot of web consumer products (and dare I say SaaS too) are these days _not_ on your own computer like they were in the 90's or early 2000s. This isn't a call to return to those days, but it is a reminder that there have been trade offs in moving our productive lives entirely to other people's computers - both in terms of technical performance, but also conceptual ownership and the like. Can we rebalance a little?
So yes, the idea is exactly _not_ new. But a lot of products are built today without considering this tried-and-tested architecture as an option. This site & list of tools is just a friendly reminder that yes, there is another way.