Stop Writing Web Apps and Change the World
summary
Argues that web apps are boring and predicts pervasive devices instead, cites tools and experiments: mesh Z‑Wave lights wired at home, tiny cheap boards like Particle P1, device images built with Nerves that flash from one command, and a concurrency framework that hit two million connections on one box. Describes identity tokens in pockets, transient displays and local discovery services, and says prototypes work well enough to start building.
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chapters (31)
- 0:00Intro
- 2:44Be Crazy
- 3:41No One Likes Change
- 4:00Classic Clich Stuff
- 4:10New York Times
- 4:49Thomas Watson
- 5:23Cellular Phones
- 5:47British
- 6:43Gibson quote
- 6:57Disruptive Technology
- 8:53Mobile Internet
- 15:03Open Source
- 16:38Mesh Networks
- 17:51Distributed Fault Tolerance
- 18:24Raspberry Pi
- 18:49Particle Pi
- 19:57Phoenix
- 21:22Nerves
- 22:21Metro Man
- 22:51Identity
- 24:12Display
- 25:12Login
- 25:34Reduce the temperature
- 25:54This is not worldchanging
- 26:40We can do that
- 26:57Can I start
- 27:46We need services
- 28:39Dynamic
- 28:56Network Connections
- 29:41Make it Happen
- 31:07Wall Garden
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