Anil Dash
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126 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Jul 2024
last heard 15 Jun
Anil Dash’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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to do the worst things.
Like it sort of saves them from that, like the most nightmarish situation.
And I think that's one of the reasons that Markdown has sort of persevered.
Like it's really hard, even with all the different flavors and variants and whatever, to make a Markdown document that doesn't just ultimately work.
A spec is like ego, right?
The web is just a bunch of things we're hoping works this way.
Nobody ever follows the spec.
The web is all just a bunch of things we slap together.
And this is the thing that works the way people work and recognize that from the beginning.
You're like, I hope they like the way I use things and maybe we will all do it this way.
And I think the fact that it worked the way people work is why it took off.
I think Sam Altman should send John $100 million.
I think so, especially because it's showing a new generation of creators and coders that what actually makes the web move forward is what individuals create.
And I think the more they take that lesson away and they're like, the guy who writes about Apple made this?
And if they sort of get that lesson in the back of their head and hear these kinds of stories and are like, the thing that we all use wasn't made by one of these giant trillion dollar companies.
That is actually the most important thing that they can sort of learn from it, not just using the format, but like maybe they could make one of these specs too, one of these formats too.
I think that actually like being in the back of their head and be like, how come I would never learn that?
Like there'll be people who got, you know, the good degree from Stanford that were never taught where the format that they use comes from.
And maybe that should raise some questions for them about the history they were told about how the whole industry works.
That's a really good thing.
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