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2022.05.04: My first page on the journey to the slow web.
Gemini is designed to encourage clients written in ~100 LOC. It's appealing to the tinkerers and DIY crowd. Why settle for huge browsers that are complex and difficult to prove as secure. The endless features and innovations to differentiate from another competing product was grossly out of control during the Internet Explorer race. The result? we as users were shoveled browsers and the illusion of control was "which bloat is least objectionable". To the developer, I remember the promise was that writing an app once could then deploy to all thin clients across platforms Mac/PC. Now we know, and today we start again. The world is crazy right now. Let's make something nice, simple, and sane.
Places to start: