{"id":17643,"date":"2017-04-05T14:13:10","date_gmt":"2017-04-05T18:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=17643"},"modified":"2017-04-05T14:13:10","modified_gmt":"2017-04-05T18:13:10","slug":"frontier-diary-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/05\/frontier-diary-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Frontier Diary #1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/inessential.com\/2017\/04\/03\/frontier_diary_1_vm_life\">Brent Simmons<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/inessential.com\/2017\/04\/03\/frontier_diary_1_vm_life\">\n<p>Maybe you&rsquo;ve never heard of it. But here&rsquo;s the thing: it was in Frontier that the following were either invented or popularized and fleshed-out: scripted and templated websites, weblogs, hosted weblogs, web services over http, RSS, RSS readers, and OPML. (And things I&rsquo;m forgetting.)<\/p>\n<p>Those innovations were due to the person &mdash; <a href=\"http:\/\/scripting.com\/\">Dave Winer<\/a> &mdash;&nbsp;and to the times, the relatively early web days. But they were also in part due to the tool: Frontier was a fantastic tool for implementing and iterating quickly.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The high-level goal is to make that tool available again, because I think we need it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>After <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Frontier-Definitive-Guide-Matt-Neuburg\/dp\/1565923839\/\">learning<\/a> how to really use it, I became a huge fan of Frontier. But the monolithic database was a problem in the 90s and would be an even bigger one now.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brent Simmons: Maybe you&rsquo;ve never heard of it. But here&rsquo;s the thing: it was in Frontier that the following were either invented or popularized and fleshed-out: scripted and templated websites, weblogs, hosted weblogs, web services over http, RSS, RSS readers, and OPML. (And things I&rsquo;m forgetting.) Those innovations were due to the person &mdash; Dave [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1505,295,30,52,96],"class_list":["post-17643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-frontier","tag-history","tag-mac","tag-rss","tag-web"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17643"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17644,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17643\/revisions\/17644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}