Archive: September 23rd, 2023

Musicians playing lined up on a pedestrian street, including two box players in the foreground—one of them smiling at the camera. Three fiddlers, a woman and two men, playing a tune sitting on a pedestrian street with people gathered around.

Session on the street.

The #ViewSource Affordance

Engineers who care about the open culture of the web should recognize that the threats to that culture come not only from Digital Enclosure by large, private companies of the most important pieces of the web.

They should also recognize the risks of Technical Enclosure, and the non-technical value of the #ViewSource affordance in perpetuating the open culture of web development.