{"id":176630,"date":"2020-05-01T18:12:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-01T23:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/05\/01\/tweets-of-the-day\/"},"modified":"2020-05-01T18:12:00","modified_gmt":"2020-05-01T23:12:00","slug":"tweets-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/05\/01\/tweets-of-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Tweets of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote data-lang=\"en\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">HTML was originally developed as a mark up language for non-programmers. It was highly successful as democratizing web development. And then it was replaced with more powerful tools that exclude non-programmers.<\/p>\n<p>This change was as predictable as it was bad.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u2014 Nikkita Bourbaki (@futurebird) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/futurebird\/status\/1255845890633408512?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 30, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> The real reason we have brogrammers creating more obscure and syntactically incomprehensible languages is that they want to preserve their priesthood.  The results are as negative as they are inevitable:  <\/p>\n<blockquote data-lang=\"en\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">C was created by legendary male hackers and 40+ years later it is still impossible to write safe C code. COBOL was created by women who were pioneers in computer science, runs the world financial system, and you only hear about it when the world breaks.<\/div>\n<p>\u2014 woolie (@woolie) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/woolie\/status\/1248434168419078144?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 10, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HTML was originally developed as a mark up language for non-programmers. It was highly successful as democratizing web development. And then it was replaced with more powerful tools that exclude non-programmers. This change was as predictable as it was bad. \u2014 Nikkita Bourbaki (@futurebird) April 30, 2020 The real reason we have brogrammers creating more &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[395,515,595],"class_list":["post-176630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-computer","tag-language","tag-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176630"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}