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Monday, December 5, 2011

I love this post: “Mucking around with HTML is like baking bread or changing a tire” « o p e n m a t t

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Excerpt from November 21 post on open matt.wordpress.com

"...Meredith’s post about the experience perfectly captures the value of getting our hands dirty through webmaking, and reminded me of Mitchell Baker’s keynote on creation vs. one-way consumption at the Mozilla Festival. Meredith writes:

It’d be easy to say, “That sounds fun, but what’s the point?”

For me, mucking around in the HTML was like making bread from scratch or changing a tire. They’re activities in which I want to engage as an act of understanding and joy, not necessarily of utility or efficiency..."

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