Procrustes and computers

Kevin Marks

IndieWeb

Procrustes had an inn between Athens and Eleusis
he cut travellers to fit his bed
Apple c:/ongrtlns.w95
2.1 billion coins

Why so many users in

Beverly Hills

and

Schenectady

?

Why so many users in

90210

and

12345?

Oh, right.

g+ othering
genderfork
no database
Volcanos have fax numbers

XML

is

draconian

HTML

is

accepting

not

big data

but

messy data

make db as needed
Falsehoods programmers believe about names

Google+

Our name check is therefore looking, not for things that don’t look like “your” name, but for things which don’t look like names, period. In fact, we do not give a damn whether the name posted is “your” name or not: we will not challenge you on this basis, nor is there any mechanism for other users to cause you to be challenged for this.
Yonatan Zunger

You'll believe this one weird plausible sounding story

Procrustes

never existed

Standards

are

Documentation

not

Legislation

Document your empirical process

microformats indiewebcamp
Thank you.