“Interoperability” is the act of making a new product or service work with an existing product or service: modern civilization depends on the standards and practices that allow you to put any dish
Interoperable Serendipity
If you had asked my thoughts on interoperability some years ago, I wouldn't have had much to say. Nowadays, it has become one of my most revered ideals. And today, I want to take you along for a journey towards its summum: Interoperable Serendipity.
Eventual Interoperability – Pieter Colpaert
A pragmatic approach to interoperability: model your data richly for your own needs, then allow the eventual creation of one‑to‑many alignments.
Blaine Cook
Hi! I'm Blaine, a software programmer living in the Slocan Valley who works on decentralized technologies (<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/10/adversarial-interoperability">this</a> kind, not that kind) in order to give communities the autonomy to self-determine in online spaces.
Adversarial Interoperability: Reviving an Elegant Weapon From a More
Today, Apple is one of the largest, most profitable companies on Earth, but in the early 2000s, the company was fighting for its life. Microsoft's Windows operating system was ascendant, and
Portability and Interoperability
Data portability is friendly to consumers, but it has very little to do with encouraging competition, at least relative to interoperability.
The Direction of Interoperability
Talking in terms of horizontal or vertical interoperability is too constrictive a mental model to understand what interoperability does. Doing better matters, and it's right within reach.
Infrastructure as Code is Artisanal Automation
“Artisanal” refers to something made in a traditional way by hand by a skilled craftsman, requiring both time and expertise.
Adversarial Collaboration: An EDGE Lecture by Daniel Kahneman | Edge.org
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Web Components Interoperability | Unpacked
Web Components Interoperability — explained clearly with diagrams.
Composability with other tools
Interoperability, exchange, and composition are some of my primary motivations for building Subconscious. Why isn’t interoperability more common between tools for thought? Why is it that most of our tools are silos? How did we get here?
Interoperability and the W3C: Defending the Future from the Present
Imagine a new, disruptive company figured out a way to let hundreds of people watch a single purchased copy of a movie, even though the rightsholders who made that movie objected. The new company
"Teams working across organizational boundaries, sharing structured data, and building on each other’s work with ease." I know it's called "adversarial interop", but it actually feels like "community interop", at least right now
Toni Schneider
Conference Takeaways I’m back from ATmosphereConf in Vancouver, and I'm processing what I saw and heard. The atproto developer community could not have been nicer and more welcoming. Here are some takeaways. ... toni.org/2026/04/03/conference-takeawa…
In policy circles I keep hearing about "horizontal" and "vertical" interoperability, notions that I haven't encountered in tech standards. I sat down to write about why it's a limiting understanding of interoperability and how we can do better. berjon.com/interoperability/
The Direction of Interoperability
berjon.comHey interoperability nerds: I need a word for actors in distributed social media systems that provide content moderation services. Blockparty is an example. Bluesky labelers and algorithm providers are examples. Blacksky is an example because of its content rules (but having a PDS doesn't matter).
