Imagine you’re part of a growing nation in the early 1800s. Different parts of the country have fundamentally different laws about slavery, and as new territories open up west, a critical question emerges: what’s the standard going forward? In 1820, the nation aligns on a compromise. The Missouri Compromise draws a literal line across the…

The beautiful. The crisp. The ambient. The natural.

You and I are neighbors. But yelling across to each other meant things got lost in translation. So we set up a bike messenger system to deliver messages between our houses. And on the bike we wrote “HTTP”. Not: Highspeed Tricycles Tripling Purple, but rather: Hypertext Transfer Protocol. Your house is a server, and the…

The cycle was incomplete without praise. Because it was not the result of the created but the creator. Praise the Lord.

Client and server. Latin cliens, meaning “dependent” or “follower”. The word server comes from Latin servire, meaning “to serve. The great exchange.