The Cheap Web

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If we want people to make nice things for us, we have to pay for their rent and grocery bills and raw materials. If you are spending less than $1 per hour on your entertainment (podcasts, videos, articles, games, books, etc.), consider finding ways to support creators and the infrastructure that supports them. I want [the Mac] to be as beautiful as possible, even if it’s inside the box. A great carpenter isn’t going to use lousy wood for the back of a cabinet, even though nobody’s going to see it. - Steve Jobs (via Walter Isaacson) Unfortunately, the HTML source for Apple.com is not so "beautiful on the inside", but Apple engineers shouldn't be faulted for ugly HTML. Their only option was to wrap a sleek skin around shoddy materials. HTML/CSS should evoke feelings of sculpting with digital concrete, but it feels more like building bridges with uncooked pasta. The whole digital design landscape is begging for simple markup languages that can participate in honest architecture. [I ho

potato.cheap is home of the... ☃︎ The "Cheap" Web The "cheap" web is a solarpunk philosophy of web design. cheap ≠ free Making nice things is difficult and time-consuming. If we want people to make nice things for us, we have to pay for their rent and grocery bills and raw materials. If you are spending less than $1 per hour on your entertainment (podcasts, videos, articles, games, books, etc.), consider finding ways to support creators and the infrastructure that supports them. cheap ≠ sleek I want [the Mac] to be as beautiful as possible, even if it’s inside the box. A great carpenter

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