@jens@cstross@jwz IIRC the WHATWG was created in 2004, but Chrome is from 2008. I think Google might have been putting pressure on Mozilla & Opera to push for the whole “web app” angle because of their forays into Gmail and Maps that started around that time. When Chrome was first released the WHATWG and the W3C had already been armwrestling on «who gets to decide what HTML is» for one or two years, and with Chrome entering the fray the W3C basically gave up.
@henryk no, USDC is reserve backed. the seller either decides to hold the USDC instead of the bitcoin, sell it for some other crypto asset, or redeem the USDC with Circle. it changes the seller’s portfolio, but USDC remains reserve-backed.
At over 520K words, it was such a massive book that DAW released the paperback edition in two volumes with the artwork similarly flopped for the second volume.Cover illustration for TO GREEN ANGEL TOWER by Tad Williams (DAW) 6/6https://www.michaelwhelan.com/galleries/green-angel-tower/
Good morning everyone! Chapter Ten of The Errant Apprentice is up! This week is King Runt! Meet goblin royalty!https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/129777/the-errant-apprentice-book-one-mo-ghile-mear/chapter/2665824/chapter-ten-king-runt#book #author #fantasy #writing