Every entertainment platform becomes video centric.
Every discussion platform becomes political.
As someone who prefers text and static images and doesn't like politics, this is really bothering me right now.
Adding to the list: image-sharing platforms, Instagram, Pinterest and Imgur, are also Tiktok now, specially if you use the apps instead of the website.
Tumblr and Flickr somehow have resisted Tiktok-fication so far.
I'm not going to lie, I don't have a lot of faith in the people making markup decisions for HTML these days. It was obvious that none of these tags made any sense and anyone who knows what semantics mean knows they would get semantically bleached the instant they hit end users. Wordpress still uses B and I buttons for <em> and <strong>. That's never going to change because emphasis and strong are just not a thing that users understand so it can't be on the UI. In fact, I don't even understand the difference between the documentation fails to explicitly assert it. Screen readers and web browsers render them the same way as <b> and <i>. At this point I have to wonder for whom exactly what this markup created, and what problem did it seek to solve. I have no idea what was going on with the committee to take years of <h1> and <h2> meaning completely different things and think "what if <h1> meant the same thing as <h2> sometimes if it's in a <section>?" or "what if we <h3> didn't mean <h3> when it's in a <hgroup>?" This was a great place to introduce an <h> tag. Did they just want to avoid breaking backwards compatibility while at the same time not caring about it? I just don't understand...
Meanwhile everybody from users, to search engines, to social media platforms, to forums, to article writers are still waiting for a <spoiler>.
I think, if I remember correctly, that b and i are used to only alter the style of text, while strong and em are used for emphasis in something like a paragraph of text.
So you could use b in something like UI breadcrumbs, but of you wanted to strongly highlight something as an author of some text, you'd use strong.
I'm not really sure we need these though. As for my breadcrumbs example, I think everyone would use CSS rather than a b element.
So, I kinda understand the idea, but I've never needed it.
A thing that maybe comes to mind is that inner monologue in books uses italics sometimes. So using i would make sense more than em. But when wanting to emphasize/stress a word or phrase an em would make more sense than i.
You don't use OFFSET because the btree index just sorts the rows from smallest to largest. It can quickly get the first 30 rows, but it can't quickly figure out where the 30th or the nth row is. When pagination is crawled it will crawl the whole table, so it's important that the worst case performs well.
The fix to this is to paginate by saying "give me 30 rows after X" where X is an unique indexed value, e.g. the primary key of the row. The RDBMS can quickly find X and 30 rows after X in the sorted index.
This makes it hard to implement a "previous page" button but nowadays everything is a feed with just a "show more" button so it doesn't matter much.
A very bad programmer can program some cool stuff with the help of libraries, toolkits, frameworks and engines that they barely understand. I think that's pretty cool and makes things otherwise impossible possible, but it doesn't make the very bad programmer better than they really are.
I believe AI is a variation of this, except a library at least has a license.
Does crypto? You may have heard of this thing called "tariffs" lately. Even purchases of software licenses are tariffed in Brazil[1]. The average person purchasing goods with crypto is just going to ignore this and several similar laws.
If you say crypto works to transact internationally, keep in mind: so does TF2 hats.
