maegul (he/they)

I think it’s a great lesson in hiw good people can create and tolerate bad systems …

… how a bunch of clever and thoughtful people (academics) can walk into creating a dumb system which they simultaneously hate or disagree with, and don’t know how to effectively change or fix.

Worth studying IMO as a case study on these general problems. My understanding is that it was a manipulative capitalist that kicked it off by appealing to academics’ egos by creating increasingly specialised and likely redundant Journals (IE more subscriptions). And of course most academics know it’s dumb, but have no sense of collective action. And so humanity just stumbles along doing dumb shit.

Well, “Web Developer” is effectively a compound (like in German, we do the same thing but often just keep the spaces between the words).

With a compound, the connection between the words sometimes has to be inferred, usually by inserting an appropriate preposition.

Usually, something like “Developer on the Web” would probably be what we understand.

In TBL’s case … it’s “Developer OF the Web”.