Simon Willison’s Weblog

If you're designing social media systems, you should be keeping an eye on the $2B industry that sells links from your site to their clients.

— Rick Skrenta

# 12:32 am / rickskrenta, seo

Microsoft saw the danger of Javascript and tried to keep it broken for as long as they could. But eventually the open source world won, by producing Javascript libraries that grew over the brokenness of Explorer the way a tree grows over barbed wire.

— Paul Graham

# 8:22 am / javascript, libraries, microsoft, paul-graham