{"id":8366,"date":"2021-04-16T21:46:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-16T19:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/?p=8366"},"modified":"2021-04-16T08:20:51","modified_gmt":"2021-04-16T06:20:51","slug":"computer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/2021\/04\/16\/computer\/","title":{"rendered":"Computer&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p id=\"e693\"><a href=\"https:\/\/myika.medium.com\/?source=post_page-----f71476087e92--------------------------------\">Mika Yeap<\/a> in his recent article &#8220;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/codex\/web-apps-arent-the-future-f71476087e92\">Web Apps Aren\u2019t the Future<\/a><\/strong>&#8221; correctly hinted that many people hardly use websites, anymore, <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8230;most of our time is spent on platforms. A very small array of platforms. <br \/>&#8230;. you probably spend more time on Twitter, Instagram, and Netflix. <br \/>&#8230; My best answer: Existing platforms with massive amounts of attention. Products a lot of people already use. It\u2019s not just social media. I\u2019m talking about Shopify. Alexa. WatchOS. I believe the future of development is in these platforms. The players might change, but the touchpoints probably won\u2019t. For example, voice is far more convenient than touch. If you could use your phone literally without lifting a finger, why wouldn\u2019t you? Plus, the Apple Watch one of the most popular wearable devices on the planet. Lots of people are already interacting with it every single day. <strong>Why <em>wouldn\u2019t<\/em> you build for it?<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>I was answering &#8220;no, for the sake of freedom&#8221;. Then I realized that the point is Interaction through voice. A-la-star-trek &#8220;computer&#8230;&#8221; (see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xaVgRj2e5_s\">Star Trek IV The Voyage Home Transparent Aluminum Scene &#8220;Hello Computer&#8221;<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"910\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LkqiDu1BQXY?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Daniele is right: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.uno\/web\/statuses\/106057347349155498\">Technology is shifting to voice-enabled products<\/a>&#8221; and we need free-as-in-freedom voice-commanded user interfaces We live interesting times <\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--nextpage-->\n\n\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"\">\n<h1 id=\"1730\" class=\"ea eb ds ec b ed ee ef eg eh ei ej ek el em en eo ep eq er es et eu ev ew ex ey\"><strong class=\"ax\">Web Apps Aren\u2019t the Future<\/strong><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\">\n<h2 id=\"4691\" class=\"ez eb ds cd b fa fb fc fd fe ff fg fh fi fj fk fl fm fn fo fp cg\">Hey Siri, what\u2019s next?<\/h2>\n<div class=\"fq\">\n<div class=\"n fr fs ft fu\">\n<div class=\"o n\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"fv fw fx\">\n<div class=\"fy n fz o p t ga gb gc gd ge dj\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"gi n o gj\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"s gf fx fw\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/miro.medium.com\/fit\/c\/96\/96\/1%2AGUO7rKl2ABoHdkqLXAO91g.png?resize=48%2C48&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Mika Yeap\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" \/><span class=\"cd b gh cf bj gk gl gm gn go gp ey\"><a class=\"cj ck at au av aw ax ay az ba gq bd cn co\" href=\"https:\/\/myika.medium.com\/?source=post_page-----f71476087e92--------------------------------\" rel=\"noopener\">Mika Yeap<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"n p\">\n<div class=\"ab ac ae af ag dp ai aj\">\n<p id=\"1ce5\" class=\"io ip ds iq b fa ir is it fd iu iv iw ix iy iz ja jb jc jd je jf jg jh ji jj dk ey\" data-selectable-paragraph=\"\">Medium is dominated by white people from North America. As an Asian guy from Malaysia, it\u2019s super obvious. Because North America and Malaysia are worlds apart. The politics. The culture. The way we say things, even in the same language. And last but not least, the tech.<\/p>\n<p id=\"6b04\" class=\"io ip ds iq b fa ir is it fd iu iv iw ix iy iz ja jb jc jd je jf jg jh ji jj dk ey\" data-selectable-paragraph=\"\">I was born in the year 2000. So it\u2019s not like I grew up in the Dark Ages, before the internet was a thing. And yet I didn\u2019t start going online actively until 2012. That\u2019s strange. Because plenty of things happened on the internet after the dot com bubble. Web 2.0. Facebook. Google. Instagram. Twitter. YouTube. I missed out on a lot. Because Malaysia wasn\u2019t super tight with the internet, back then.<\/p>\n<p id=\"3737\" class=\"io ip ds iq b fa ir is it fd iu iv iw ix iy iz ja jb jc jd je jf jg jh ji jj dk ey\" data-selectable-paragraph=\"\">For one, going online simply didn\u2019t work. The internet infrastructure in this country? It\u2019s sketchy even today. Most cities still don\u2019t have even cell coverage. So imagine what it was like back then. Given that, I actually started out thinking websites were really dumb. Seven out of ten times, they wouldn\u2019t load before I got bored of waiting. Not exactly something I\u2019d want to use every day.<\/p>\n<p id=\"98f0\" class=\"io ip ds iq b fa ir is it fd iu iv iw ix iy iz ja jb jc jd je jf jg jh ji jj dk ey\" data-selectable-paragraph=\"\">So even today, when my internet chugs along at a respectable 300 megabits per second, I\u2019m still skeptical of websites. Objectively, I know better. But there\u2019s still a tiny part of me that snickers every time I type something in Chrome\u2019s address bar. Which led me to an interesting hypothesis as I was thinking about the future of app development: Web apps ain\u2019t it.<\/p>\n<p id=\"e693\" class=\"io ip ds iq b fa ir is it fd iu iv iw ix iy iz ja jb jc jd je jf jg jh ji jj dk ey\" data-selectable-paragraph=\"\">Think about it: We hardly use websites, anymore. Most of our time is spent on platforms. A very small array of platforms. Even if you\u2019re a frontend web developer and your job is literally to build websites, you probably spend more time on Twitter, Instagram, and Netflix. Why is this relevant? Because I\u2019m constantly thinking about where to build next. Where is there a surplus of demand and a scarcity of development?<\/p>\n<p id=\"bd4c\" class=\"io ip ds iq b fa ir is it fd iu iv iw ix iy iz ja jb jc jd je jf jg jh ji jj dk ey\" data-selectable-paragraph=\"\">My best answer: Existing platforms with massive amounts of attention. Products a lot of people already use. It\u2019s not just social media. I\u2019m talking about Shopify. Alexa. WatchOS. I believe the future of development is in these platforms. The players might change, but the touchpoints probably won\u2019t. For example, voice is far more convenient than touch. If you could use your phone literally without lifting a finger, why wouldn\u2019t you? Plus, the Apple Watch one of the most popular wearable devices on the planet. Lots of people are already interacting with it every single day. Why <em class=\"jk\">wouldn\u2019t<\/em> you build for it?<\/p>\n<p id=\"85df\" class=\"io ip ds iq b fa ir is it fd iu iv iw ix iy iz ja jb jc jd je jf jg jh ji jj dk ey\" data-selectable-paragraph=\"\">At the end of the day, it\u2019s tempting to latch onto specific mediums as developers. We\u2019ve spent so much time learning these skills. To jump ship every five years to keep up with the attention is preposterous. And you probably don\u2019t need to, either. There are still plenty of jobs for PHP developers out there, even in 2021. But if you want to be on the bleeding edge, that\u2019s a different story. <mark class=\"ub uc kr\">In that case, the code must follow the attention.<\/mark><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">Mika Yeap in his recent article &#8220;Web Apps Aren\u2019t the Future&#8221; correctly hinted that many people hardly use websites, anymore, &#8230;most of our time is spent on platforms. A very small array of platforms. &#8230;. you probably spend more time on Twitter, Instagram, and Netflix. &#8230; My best answer: Existing platforms with massive amounts of&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/2021\/04\/16\/computer\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[171],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s6daft-computer","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4930,"url":"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/2018\/11\/17\/cloud-computing-without-containers\/","url_meta":{"origin":8366,"position":0},"title":"Cloud Computing without Containers","author":"Paolo Redaelli","date":"2018-11-17","format":false,"excerpt":".....legenda, i.e. a latin word which literally mean \"things that have to be read\". 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