one thing i want is some sort of standard interface for software systems to automatically discover properties of and be able to communicate with other systems without necessarily being manually coded to support it
like activitypub for example, it's a thing that is _nominally_ self-describing with json-ld schemas and there's a spec for completely different software being able to talk to other software using a standard protocol but like. in practice obviously this hasn't worked out so well, and people have to make stuff that's compatible with mastodon's quirks for example
are all interoperable systems doomed like that? maybe it's possible to have something where implementation doesn't end up being guided by one specific other implementation?
@haskal almost always doomed.
there is a bug in the representation of datetimes in almost all spreadsheet applications that ultimately makes them bug compatible with lotus 123, so it's been a thing for almost 40 years.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_year_problem#Occurrences
