Thomas Cannon

Having a normal one while writing docs

After all, what is an email address but a handle for transmitting email? A phone number a handle for telecommunication protocols? Websites, handles for information on the web (generally tied to a person or team)? And handles in other platforms, instagram, bluesky; they can be resolved too…&10;&10;In some of the most resplendent Pepe Silvia work of my lifetime, I zeroed in on my favorite artifact of the digital era: the Universal Resource Identifier.&10;&10;(Almost) every handle I could think of could be resolved to a URI! tel, sms, mailto the humble https! No matter how you communicated with someone, I could compress it down to a universal standard: a type, a human label, and an almost always a URI.&10;&10;It was beautifully simple in its modeling, endlessly extendable, future-proof, maximally compressible. And ultimately unworkable in real-world usage.