Alex makes the astonishing assertion that “vanishingly few scaled sites feature long sessions and login-gated content”. The above, as an anecdote to the contrary, is a screenshot of my start screen on my personal laptop in Firefox; it is roughly speaking a list of my most-visited websites. Ignoring Alpaca, an unreleased side project of mine, all but one are SPAs. Taking the requirements of “long sessions, login gated content”, all but one should be single page apps.

Certainly the long tail of websites in the world is probably mostly static, but the big sites — where all the development dollars are spent — are overwhelmingly rich, complex sites. The money is in rich apps, not because the money is being wasted, but because the content and services people pay for are highly personalized and dynamic, where rich apps shine.

The OSS community clinging to the LAMP stack (and then Docker) rather than adopting the 12 Factor Apps pattern and onwards to serverless is only going to become more of a problem. There is no path from LAMP to [conversational programming](Why the fuss about conversational programming?) https://social.coop/@bmann/109845198227859852