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Write standards that need no one to change

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So what you do is you just take the one, that's the that's the lowest. And you build your standard around that. That covers Everybody see what I'm saying?

Episode 127: Fortress of Freedom (episode page, opens in a new tab) 00:41:48 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)

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Summary

For things like show-notes formatting, survey what every app supports, build the standard around the lowest common limit, and nobody has to rewrite their code. Don't tell developers they must change to adhere.

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  1. Episode 128: Fully Fingered (episode page, opens in a new tab) 01:00:47 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)

    So if you make the bar low enough, where you say, Okay, well, you know, it's been a year now we're going to add this, this extra tag. You know, it's just maybe it's just one extra thing, you know, that that's, that's not a big hurdle?

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