Agreed. A lot of modern web design problems come from trying to force a medium to do something it was never meant for. If you work with the grain of HTML and CSS instead of against it, you can still build really flexible and beautiful layouts without needing to hack the DOM or pile on JS. zen garden was a reminder of that and it still holds up.
Agreed. discord has a unique structure with threaded conversations, context carryover, and back and forth reasoning that you don't get from places like twitter or even reddit.
it's especially useful for training models on collaborative problem solving or exploratory dialogue. filtering is a challenge but definitely solvable with current tools.
that kind of synthesis is where current search interfaces fall short. the pieces exist in isolation like flight data, personal calendars, and airport notices, but nothing ties them together in a way that's actually useful. an agent using MCP could help connect those dots if the APIs are deep enough and the UX avoids feeling like a black box. the real challenge might not be the tech but getting providers to share enough useful data and trust whatever sits between them and the user.
It's been awhile but I remember there were things I was used to, some really nice things, that I didn't want to give up.
I love vscode's markdown editing features. (pasting a link over text to create a hyperlink or dragging and dropping image files to embed images etc.) I think some of the keyboard shortcuts I was used to were different (duplicating lines, selecting all occurrences of a selected text). Behavior of word/token traversing(Ctrl + Left|Right Arrow) was different. There were some things kate couldn't do at all that I don't remember.
