While on a literal years-long journey to understanding REST, I happened upon RDF and the semantic web. What a load of crock.

I was absolutely ecstatic when I learned about the semantic web and the idea of having a world-wide machine-readable standard for data, only to realize it had to be tacked onto the current stack of web technology. When was the last time you saw any popular website expose a schema.org web page, or a Hydra endpoint?

The web is an endless morass of ad-hoc RPC endpoints, with nothing governing how you can interact with it, unless they happen to adhere to some bullshit Gooogle standard to enhance SEO.

  • WorkingClassOilBaron [they/them]
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    4 years ago

    The web is an endless morass of ad-hoc RPC endpoints, with nothing governing how you can interact with it, unless they happen to adhere to some bullshit Gooogle standard to enhance SEO.

    As always, the profitable is the enemy of the good.