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https://github.com/nerdfiles/proposal-planning

You want a website, because "want is logically prior to need" (Dark Ecology. Morton, T.), and we all, or most of us, are fairly sure that "the terror of value" (The Empire of Value) depends on a "shared understanding" (Mike Amundsen) that grounds trust: what we monitor, what we observe, what we learn, how we grow with the art of business.
https://github.com/nerdfiles/proposal-planning

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You want a website, because "want is logically prior to need" (Dark Ecology. Morton, T.), and we all, or most of us, are fairly sure that "the terror of value" (The Empire of Value) depends on a "shared understanding" (Mike Amundsen) that grounds trust: what we monitor, what we observe, what we learn, how we grow with the art of business.

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# Proposal Planning



## TL;DR



You want a website, because "want is logically prior to need" (Dark Ecology. 

Timothy Morton.), and we all, or most of us, are fairly sure that "the terror 

of value" depends on a "shared understanding" (Mike Amundsen) that grounds 

trust: what we monitor, what we observe, what we learn, how we grow with the 

art of business. Indeed, Jack, once CEO of a website, himself admitted: "apps 

have distracted me from the power of the web." Ah, but was it (just) apps and 

a market surface?



Oh, "graceful degradation"? "Progressive enhancement"? "Mobile-first"? 

"Design-first"? "API-first?" "TDD"? "domain-driven design" (or should these be 

capitalized D's)? IoT"? "Captioning?" "Localization"? "BIPS"? 

"Smart" contracts, "smart" that? "[handshake wallets][handshake]"? "the 

ecological impact of hash-cracking"? Is the browser war still on? "timbl 

invented what?!" "rms hates javascript!?" How ever does one decide what to do 

in how things are going in the web of things, or the "most hostile development 

environment imaginable" (Douglas Crockford, programmer)?



What other way would you define a "dark age" if not that a majority of our 

semantic web of belief is inaccessible (even the apps too!), with vendors 

locking-out widely available talent?



## The State of Play



Let's be frank, [Andy Clarke-style][clarke]: web design was and is [a mistake][mistake]. 

The very "stuff happening" between "you" and "I", client and creator, is 

grounded in metaphor: "all memories are screen memories"[3], and the screen is 

nothing like paper, I assure you. But you need to transact — and transform 

your business, not (just) let somebody else mind it. Indeed, "transformative" 

is not (just) another [buzzword][buzz]. And all education is violence[1]. 

You're not paying "me," one who "leverages" an open source and/or free software movement, just to hit the 

market surface when [90% of the web is inaccessible][inaccessible]. [Mobile website 

speeds have not increased in 10 years][needforspeed] yet our ISPs have improved 

"our" download and latency performances, you ask? As all the major developer 

teams in their Major Company [Developer Developer Developer Developer][dev4]

Shops have their own Way, as any "tech recruiter" is only authorized to say? 

(*career of 15 years going strong!, but what do I know?*)



(We see you Comcast, SAP, VMWare, Dun & Bradstreet, Microsoft selling 

personally identifiable data to ICE, advertising "REST APIs", not "REST*ful*"; 

i.e., "transformative", and hey, please articulate why [MUST][rfc2119] 

hypermedia control *not* be used in GraphQL again, for "[conveyor-tube][tube]" 

messaging "data APIs"?) 



A regular tragedy of the commons, if you ask me. And who really asks anything 

about anything anymore, all the Major Companies giving no feedback due to 

their security policies — lacking ODRL? GDPR? Even jazz was "[conceived to be 

about something][jazz]"! They're all doing the "best for the best customers with the best tools at the best times in the best SDLCs"? 

But then, [accessibility *is* security and privacy][privacy]; elsewhere: 

almost none of it is built ("buidl'd"?) "on" "transformative APIs"[6]; that means no 

[sandwiches][swiber][15] for you! You're aware of who Jeff Bezos is, and how his 

[API Mandate][apimandate] has constrained your business "validation" logic's capabilities, hindered 

interrelations among and between others in the web and its search engine 

results pages and your peers, obscured and obfuscated the attributes, 

semantics and meaning-making potential of your business -- to the point of 

seeming to house it in a digital time capsule whereof you set it and "forget 

it". Why should "designers" be giving humans *static web junk* like debris in 

space, lacking any possibility of semiotic autopoiesis? Ah, we're all just 

slingin' "clever" poetic licenses in this wild, wild web, is it? How would you 

honestly know, if not but for true belief and the right to ask about "the 

terror of value"[2]?



You're paying me because you want to show good faith *and* good will here on 

earth. We're not going to dance about secularization or its opposite. 



You're not going to lecture me about your cultural religions nor political ableisms as a means to smuggle in 

Business Requirements you didn't think of until last minute. You're not going 

to tell me anything I say is "simply unfair." You're not going to pay me (just) to solve "your" "problem", 

if for no other reason than that you know you need someone other than 

yourself to even articulate your problem. And you know I've been called 

not nothing but other than "articulate". You're not suspicious of "grifts" 

or scams, for no other reason than what we know about how the empire of law codes 

capital for everything we perceive in virtual stores and otherwise[15], from 

cans of soup to NFTs to our personas as products. You're not feeling 

intimidated, as you have no idea what it is like to make a living in 

a web that is 90% inaccessible, a web where Roy Fielding's research 

has been jacked. No, someone else being informed in historical and 

political facts of the distribution of ownership is not "intimidating" 

you. You probably don't even have the language to communicate what 

or how you feel, and you know this society show has propped itself 

up on finding innocent victims to cry about, fancifully associating 

freedom feelings with whatever or whomever it needs to invent to 

"get the job done". Well, now we know I am vetted by constituents 

of the W3C. You acknowledge standards and their technologies all 

around you: so now why are you coming just to kick me in the history 

with a "time to market" mantra? We're people of and for good will 

as much as we are from good faiths, many of them. And now you know 

that "unconscious price deranges social value"[3].



It's not (just) about code. You should be worried if your engineer 

or developer, web or full-stuck, cannot reason about complex things 

nor articulate without code in view, as if good programming is not 

about design-first, data structures, and relationships, for "beauty 

is the givenness of data."[4]



And if you don't care if your engineers can articulate [the philosophy 

of the web][phil][5]? And you expect them to secure your business logic? 



Do you really want a website, if "want is logically prior to need"? 

Or if trust is logically prior to desire?



And certainly I've said a bit here. "You" and "I" might even think 

this document's style has broken with the original stylistic constraints 

laid out by Clarke, in his rejection of legalese. You may not think 

the neoclassical, [Sisyphean economy's formula][sisyphean][11], `P=R+W+I`, has anything 

to do with your bottom-line — 



Because it's all (just) math, right? Software is eating the world[7], ya say?



Let's not go about [misdocumenting][jazz] as if concern for "everyday racial coding"[8] 

and "pattern discrimination"[9] are just as much valid concerns, just as 

valuable, as a game theory no one wishes to admit bit the dust long ago[10]. To say 

the least, it's not all (just) about game theory, a world as a hare-hunt.



Because we're playfully serious, when we must be; maybe even reasonable in our 

goals, and seriously playful when we can, "you" and "I" should hope.



Tell us again, like when we saw the earth floating in space for the first time[13], 

what did we take away when [Aaron Swartz][swartz] impressively took a stand for the 

fragility of knowledge, showing us the depth of our work to be done?



```

[1] Critique of Economic Reason. Andre Gorz.

[2] The Empire of Value. Andre Orlean.

[3] Abstract Market Theory. John Roffe.

[4] Contingent Computation. Beatrice M. Fazi.

[5] One serious but aging question: "Isn’t there a need for cacheing the results of the  

    various reasoners in a FOL form?" 

[6] "When we work on projects with more and more services involved the big  

    revelation was the people who build HTTP and use Hypermedia know what they're  

    talking about — and we should listen to them." (James Gregory, Lead Consultant  

    at ThoughtWorks)

[7] "There Is No Software". F. Kittler.

[8] Race After Technology. Ruha Benjamin.

[9] Pattern Discrimination. Clemens Apprich, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Florian 

    Cramer, and Hito Steyerl.

[10] Against Game Theory. Gale M. Lucas, Mathew D. McCubbins, and Mark Turner.

[11] "The Sisyphean Economy". Stephen I. Ternyik.

[12] The Code of Capital. Katharina Pistor. (Also review The Legal Theory of Finance.)

[13] Outer Space, Expansive Sustainable Development, and the Future of the Environmental Humanities. Brad Tabas.

[14] Simply put: you should be able to View Source on a webpage (and even in 

native apps, technically, if they would be a bit more open about all this, 

since most of them are built using HTTP and other web technologies offered by 

the W3C, anyway), then *see* the "layered" composition of an API response: 

typically as it should be minimally composed of actions (capabilities), (link 

or "relating") relations, attributes or "properties" (as Amundsen notes; and 

again, here, they are modal, contextual, etc., sometimes!), presentational 

modalities of and for hypermedia control (think accessibility; see above!), and 

some sense of *whose time it is* — maybe think of OWL-Time prefixing the 

standard link relations' strings in the  tags viewable in the HTML 

source code; or W3C mementos or W3C timegates, even! There is quite a bit to 

all this, and we haven't even mentioned the demands of cryptosystems, semantic 

hashing for speedy lookups, availability vs consistency, metastability and 

"meta APIs"!

```



[clarke]: https://stuffandnonsense.co.uk/projects/contract-killer/#contract

[inaccessible]: https://abilitynet.org.uk/news-blogs/inaccessible-websites-keep-disabled-people-out-work-abilitynet-tells-government-taskforce

[mistake]: http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/

[buzz]: https://roy.gbiv.com/untangled/2008/rest-apis-must-be-hypertext-driven

[apimandate]: https://nordicapis.com/the-bezos-api-mandate-amazons-manifesto-for-externalization/

[phil]: https://www.w3.org/community/philoweb/2014/01/15/syllogism/ 

[handshake]: https://github.com/kyokan/bob-wallet

[needforspeed]: https://www.nngroup.com/articles/the-need-for-speed/

[sisyphean]: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/314687329_The_Sisyphean_Economy

[dev4]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vhh_GeBPOhs

[privacy]: https://www.boia.org/blog/accessibility-is-privacy-and-security

[swartz]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Swartz

[rfc2119]: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2119

[tube]: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0020025504002385

[jazz]: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?/topic/32325-tri-axium-writings-excerpt-vol-1-world-music/

[swiber]: https://github.com/kevinswiber/siren