HTTP Explained

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…

Praise

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

Exchange

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

To Work

It’s fun to work for fun. It’s sad to work from fear. It’s exhausting to work to please others.

Land

And here it is full circle. A lesson you learned applied in a completely different context. Maybe it lands. Maybe it doesn’t.