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The lesson is that, for those of us who live online, having a simple static-site home on the range, on your own domain name, under your own control, has one of the highest returns on investment of anything you can do.
CSS Boost
ongoing by Tim Bray
RFCs are written and discussed, but there’s no mechanism by which they’re formally adopted or rejected. Organizations choose to implement them (or don’t); they become standards through widespread voluntary adoption.
This means that, if engineering organizations naively adopt an RFC process without bolting on some sort of explicit decision-making step, the process quickly breaks down. Without some sort of process to move towards a decision, **the default outcome of an RFC is “no”**
RFC processes are a poor fit for most organizations
jacobian.org
In The Real World of Technology, Ursula Franklin describes such a practice as a "holistic technology," one in which a single person understands and has the skills and autonomy to carry out every step of the process, closely related to the idea of artisanal labor.
How Infrastructure Works
Deb Chachra
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