Readit NewsVery exciting to see open source alternatives to the other headless content management systems that put developer experience as highly as editor experience, like Sanity, DatoCMS, or Contentful.
We’ll be switching to Payload very soon for all of our new internal and client projects after we’ve had a chance to play around with this release.
Still, it’s quite an interesting possibility worth pursuing in my opinion. (Full disclosure, I work for a small nominally employee-owned company, and have mixed thoughts about how it works in practice).
Hierarchies can be time-limited, or democratically limited, it just depends on the legal and organisational framework.
I guess the point of the poster above is that the word communism just confuses things in the initial statement — it’s just a dictatorship. Socialists and communists fairly uniquely believe in workplace democracy.
Also, in most studies, co-ops and employee ownership models do actually end up being more profitable and sustainable in the long term [0, 1].
[0] Page 23+ in this UK government review on employee ownership: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...
[1] ONS report showing the rate of survival of cooperatives in the UK after five years was 80 percent compared with only 41 percent for all other enterprises https://www.uk.coop/sites/default/files/2020-10/co-operative...
A quadratic equation can be used to approximate the coordinates of the trajectory of a thrown object in a gravity field. I think the really interesting question is why that particular equation reflects that trajectory. Arithmetic operators - multiplication and addition in that case - in a particular order, are approximating the causal operations of existence that are actually at work. I think of this as the philosophy of mathematics and much more should be done to investigate it.
The mathematics to accurately predict or relay reality is still complex enough that it’s often beyond us. You’re right in that it’s a tool to understand, but if we’re using simplified math for simplified reality, is it really epistemological?
As you suggest, math isn’t outside the boundary of philosophic investigation. It never was in the past, and I don’t think better approximations change that calculation.
> I think it's mostly propaganda by Knuth and Kernighan (TeX and troff) that makes people want this.
> Let's keep HTML simple!
was unexpected. Knuth as propaganda!
The discussion noted some O’Reilly books sentence-spaced, and layout software had different levels of support with TeX notably supporting it. And that’s the key: it’s a typographical layout choice. For document input, for writers, it’s a matter of markup for the output typographical layout not double-spacing per se. It’s an aesthetic choice only, similar to the spacing we add between letters, around punctuation etc.
So the question is not, should we support double spacing, but: should we support this sentence spacing typographical technique?
Because double spaces are an hack used to achieve layout they should not be necessary, but word processors not supporting it leads to people implementing it themselves. (If you’re a product manager, this is the sort of thing you spot to indicate a missing feature.)
It gets worse on the web: because most white space is collapsed together the double-space trick doesn’t work, and it’s _very_ hard to do in CSS.
Marc Andreessen’s 1993 comment ‘how is a text widget supposed to know where a sentence ends and where it doesn't? That sort of syntactic analysis we can't do...’: yes, it’s hard. English parsing is hard. Other languages are hard. I don’t believe that’s a reason not to do it any more.
My website has sentence spacing [1] in CSS as a purely aesthetic choice based on a technique by Tom Fine [2, 3]. And it’s automated: I run the site text, single-spaced, through a Python script that understands sentences and marks up sentence spacing.
[1] https://daveon.design/about-dave-on-design.html#typography-&...
[2] https://hea-www.harvard.edu/~fine/Tech/html-sentences.html
The bold and italics look like they’re being applied in browser though, rather than specific faces.
And it’s calling out for some small caps for acronyms like ‘HTML’.
Nice to see sites with this style, it’s very rare nowadays!
Because of various ES module/CJS issues I had to bundle payload with esbuild and change the extension to cjs. The config wasn't being properly found/parsed by their webpack/ts-node setup, and because payload loads its own config in dev mode, it's all a bit complicated. This was the easiest fix I could find.
My example repo can be found here: https://github.com/coxmi/astro-payload-example
Which was sort-of based on Payload's own custom server example here: https://github.com/payloadcms/payload/tree/main/examples/cus...