Scale Down, People Up: Making the Web More Approachable
summary
An argument for lowering barriers with concrete examples: a desktop app get it that teaches the full git+GitHub workflow, built with plain HTML/JSON/vanilla JS and eight deps, used by about 16,000 people and ranking fourth for unique contributors on GitHub; an Electron API demo and Essential Electron site that show file structure and real runnable snippets; a tiny Sheets EJS library that treats spreadsheets as databases (no in‑site editing); and a Glitch-backed spreadsheet→JSON remix that requires zero deploys.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Start
- 1:00Scaling down software development to make it better for more humans.
- 1:10Human Scale
- 3:38Developers are a subset of people that does not include people who will be developers or people who tinker.
- 4:32The Development Environment
- 5:48Often require another person. And what about hosting?
- 21:37Can you edit the spreadsheet from the site?
- 22:11Great things!
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