The World Wide Web turned 25 this week. Tim Berners-Lee wrote his proposal in March 1989 and his boss annotated it “vague but exciting,” the greatest code review comment ever written, and a reminder to me personally to be nicer in PR reviews. He gave it away. No patent, no licensing. My entire career exists inside one person’s decision not to monetize.
At work I’ve been handed my first intern to mentor for the spring. I’ve been professionally alive for not quite three years and I’m someone’s senior now? I made a list of everything that confused me on day one. It’s long. It’s basically this blog.
Champions League quarter-final draw is imminent. This year I’m picking the winners by how cool their club crests look, a strategy with the same win rate as expertise, per the research (my research).
TIL: how DNS actually resolves, all the way down: root servers, TLDs, authoritative servers, TTLs. Explained it to the intern with a whiteboard and realized halfway through I was really explaining it to myself. Teaching is a debugger for your own understanding. Also learned the haiku “it’s always DNS”