Comment by mbgerring

14 hours ago

Hello from the distant past, when being able to easily consume a website via API was an exciting and fresh idea for humans, before robots could effectively use the computer

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HATEOAS

Does anyone remember the conference talk in the early days of React that was titled something like “best practices considered harmful,” or something? Or maybe that was a joke someone made about it. Anyway, the Semantic Web people have been right this whole time, and it’s very funny that we can now quantify the cost of building websites upside down and backwards for more than a decade.