{"id":1332,"date":"2014-05-20T20:26:30","date_gmt":"2014-05-21T03:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/?p=1332"},"modified":"2014-05-20T20:26:31","modified_gmt":"2014-05-21T03:26:31","slug":"why-platforms-must-be-simple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/why-platforms-must-be-simple\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Platforms Must Be Simple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;From a practical (and historical) standpoint, we can assume that no complex specification will be implemented exactly. [&#8230;] A platform consisting of the union of all possible implementations is thus arbitrarily unreliable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p align=\"right\">\n-Bret Victor, <a href=\"http:\/\/worrydream.com\/MagicInk\/#designing_the_information_software_revolution\">Magic Ink<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;From a practical (and historical) standpoint, we can assume that no complex specification will be implemented exactly. [&#8230;] A platform consisting of the union of all possible implementations is thus arbitrarily unreliable.&#8221; -Bret Victor, Magic Ink<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1332"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1332"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1333,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1332\/revisions\/1333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}