4 ms·

We (the royal tech we) have taken a document transport protocol and bent it into a replacement for green-screen and installed general computing applications ove

We (the royal tech we) have taken a document transport protocol and bent it into a replacement for green-screen and installed general computing applications over the last 2+ decades. The barrier to entry in building, supporting and maintaining web applications is low compared to installed apps from ye olden times using things like VB and floppy disk installs to many different OSes. There is a large mix of web stacks to choose from and building apps is essentially a "solved" problem at this point. Everything seems to build off HTTP, even cloud computing has REST API's to invoke functions to spin up compute resources. Everything has an API. Not everyone should learn how to code but I think everyone should have a basic understanding of what HTTP does and what API's are and how to call them (via simple tools not coding). Its probably useful to nearly any professional (aka office worker) type of career.

namaria 3y ago
> We (the royal tech we) Isn't the 'royal we' using 'we' when talking about oneself? If you're actually talking about a group of people that's a plain old 'we' isn't it?
- dragonwriter 3y ago
  “The royal we” is sometimes (despite this definition not being popularly recorded and conflicting with the more common understanding) used as a “we” referring in general to a class with a statement that may or may not apply to the speaker personally. I think this comes fron the literal royal “We” including among its functions the monarch referring to themselves in their capacity as an embodiment of the State.