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

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