Editable Web

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Argues the web is hard to maintain and proposes representing sites as typed JSON served from a GraphQL endpoint, enabling import/fork of legacy Gatsby Next.js WordPress Squarespace sites and algorithmic design systems. Describes a working proof of concept that separates editor and renderer, reuses React Native web CSS ideas, and aims to make most static sites editable as data. Shows tradeoffs and feasibility rather than vague examples.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 0:29Creating a new web
3. 0:56Tradeoffs
4. 3:35Open Source
5. 4:30Two evils
6. 6:15Technologies
7. 6:50Meditation
8. 7:37Web Language
9. 8:42GraphQL
10. 9:40Plain Data
11. 9:59RegNative
12. 12:11How to purify web
13. 12:42Conclusion

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