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I found a really great article around web standards "Every feature begins life as a non-standard proposal, often shipped. This is not a bug" that I shared with @blaine.bsky.social last September. Thread in the forum discourse.atprotocol.community/t/web-standa...

discourse.atprotocol.communityWeb Standards and the Fall of the House of Iamus (Alex Russell)Every feature begins life as a non-standard proposal, often shipped. This is not a bug. This is Alex Russell’s post on web standards, and has a lot of discussion about W3C working groups. I found i...
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I need to write more about this, but one of the core benefits of atproto is that it (dramatically) lowers the cost of coordination, both in divergence and convergence.

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Great thread, article, and TIL about this discourse too All kinds of buildouts are better with this sort of directionality, imo. Find your outside-in concretion, deliver it, then tease the components out and stabilize them for broader use. We _think_ we see the components up front, but often not.