web dev

Web development builds software on top of an unusually hostile distributed system: untrusted clients, variable networks, evolving browsers, cached intermediaries, and servers that may be continents away.

Web development builds software on top of an unusually hostile distributed system: untrusted clients, variable networks, evolving browsers, cached intermediaries, and servers that may be continents away.

The frontend owns interaction and rendering near the user; APIs expose server capabilities; deployment and operations decide whether either remains reachable.

URLs, HTTP, HTML, and progressive delivery are the durable substrate. Framework conventions change much faster than the web platform beneath them.

A web application is never only its happy-path JavaScript. Accessibility, navigation history, partial loading, retries, security boundaries, and linkability are product behavior.

The web's superpower is not that it is the cleanest application platform. It is that software can arrive through a link and begin running without installation.