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How to Speak like a Web Developer

Hannah Ong on November 14, 2020

After building my career in HRIS, I've really taken for granted all the terminology I've gained through industry experience. What once felt easy to...
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⚫️ nothingness negates itself • Edited

hypermedia, if you're not doing hypermedia you're not doing web development

the only thing that is "web" is hypermedia; there is no such thing as a "non-hypermedia web". you have to mention REST, there is no such thing as a "non-RESTful web"

because hypermedia for the first time introduced something that paper cannot do

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Livan Jimenez

this read like satire to me lol

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⚫️ nothingness negates itself

it's not. have you read fielding at all, actually?

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Livan Jimenez

chill

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⚫️ nothingness negates itself • Edited

yes, REST is chill. in fact, it grounds itself on timbl's cool uris don't change.

the chillest

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Alain Van Hout

So pre-REST SOAP and e.g. post-REST GraphQL are not 'web'? Somebody should let history know, because it seems to disagree.

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Jeremy Ong

Great stuff! :)