Three years of building no-code software for political organizations
Three years of building no-code software for political organizations
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Three years of building no-code software for grassroots political organizations
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I didn't finish this article because I'm procrastinating before a minor deadline, but I read enough to realise that my prior bias against no-code software was excessively strong and largely based in gatekeepy ideals; I am a weirdo who loves to tinker, and I earnestly believe that many of the people who don't consider themselves techy could find joy in this path if not for platform capitalism, bullshit laws around software, and IT education that creates a class of obedient users.
However, it's unrealistic to hope that it's possible to "convert" everyone to this path, or even the majority of people. It's useful to remind myself that my goal of facilitating more tinkerers and builders in the world is that I think that's a route towards greater empowerment and freedom in interfacing with our tech-heavy world, and that the template that feels most natural to me is not the only route to tech empowerment
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"No code" is just another way of saying there is a base of code. Call it base code instead!
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That's not always the case. For instance https://github.com/kelseyhightower/nocode
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You have a program, WordPress, to create more software, namely your specific website.
Bad example. Wordpress is to create blogs, not webpages (or even webshops). If you use it for anything more, you end up with one of the weekly critical security holes in plugins.
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Wordpress makes up like 40% of the Internet depending on the source of the claim. I'm pretty sure it's used for more than just blogs.
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Yes, and that's why the security holes in plugins are an issue.
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Wordpress has native support for pages.
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I'm on the yunohost wagon for almost 4 years, I'm really happy and I could cut a lot of big tech off my digital life
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“No-code software”, aka, CMS.
Why do we need a new term that is vastly worse than the old term?
A CMS is a specific type of no-code software. N8N or Appsmith are definitely not a CMS
Can you define no-code software?
From the article:
So.. is it just software that has a plugin architecture?