On: “But lawyers know nothing about tech ”

[fourfour3]

In this case, that's because he's got rid of his Linkedin account since that article footer was written (I follow Neil via Mastodon, he discussed it there).

(edited for missing word!)

[noizejoy → fourfour3]

… and the article footer being constructed, so that it can become outdated would seem to imply a somewhat limited understanding of technology

[lolinder → noizejoy]

Do you take the time to make your blog footers dynamically check if your social media profiles still exist? I sure don't.

[noizejoy → lolinder]

If the blog footer is intended to contain links to identity, I'd make that whole footer dynamic and then I'd just keep a single source for that.

Alternatively, arguably better: Keep a master domain for each identity and update social media accounts for that identity on a page in the master domain.