"Why I love working with the web" →

Nice piece by Remy Sharp:

It's the web's simplicity. Born out of a need to connect documents. As much as that might have changed with the latest generation of developers who might tell you that it's hard and complex (and they're right), at the same time it is not complicated. It's still beautifully simple.

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If you sit back for a moment, and think about just how many lives you can touch simply by publishing something, anything, to the web, it's utterly mind blowing. That's why I love working with the web.

I still remember the first time I right-clicked and inspected a website back in 2010. I didn't really know what I was looking at, but being able to change headlines on The New York Times' website was pretty wild. If Chrome hadn't included that option in the right-click menu by default, my life would look pretty different today.

Like Remy, the relative simplicity and potential impact of websites is what I love the most. Piecing together my Dad's site with WordPress in 2011 was difficult, but boy was it worth it. The testimonials page contains only a tiny fraction of the appreciation my Dad has gotten for his work. His articles have helped many thousands of IT pros solve technical issues, learn new things, and spend more time with their families, and that's awesome.

I'm constantly surprised by how powerful websites can be, and I plan to continue making the ones that I build faster, lighter, cleaner, and simpler to use.