detached reflections on urls
Ich misstraue allen Systematikern und gehe ihnen aus dem Weg. Der Wille zum System ist ein Mangel an Rechtschaffenheit.
ー Friedrich Nietzsche: Götzen-Dämmerung, Aphorismus 26
names and extensions
- as useful as mime types can be, file extensions are human-scale, understandable at a glance, expressive and evocative
- the impulse to create clean and minimalist urls is an ascetic impulse
- naming is always an error, and an act of violence
- no names signify nothing, but some names signify less than others
- style is substance
- ascii is more than enough
accessibility
- great art is exclusionary
- words can never capture a symphony and the taste of that gum you like can never capture the emotional intricacies of the last blurry snapshot you took while intoxicated
all in all
- ontologies inadvertently reveal the beauty in their exceptions
- mirrors and windows - reflections and views
last updated: 2025-06-16