Foresight-Anticipated Questions
Why the name Pardon?
“Pardon‽” was my initial reaction to another HTTP framework’s decision to delete the collections I had been using locally for years in a bid to force me to create an account.
What’s with the icon?
The icon is an interrobang, Merriam-Webster defines the interrobang as
a punctuation mark ‽ designed for use especially at the end of an exclamatory rhetorical question.
for Pardon, there are two more reasons it was chosen:
- as an interrobang, it represents the two basic kinds of HTTP requests, e.g., GET (?) and POST (!).
- as an image, it looks a “P” for Pardon, LOL.
The design itself is based off of Dav AT’s submission to the noun project and was reworked into an application icon using Adobe® Illustrator.
Why isn’t this “Frequently Asked Questions”?
Insufficient sample size to honestly categorize “frequently asked questions” at this point.
How do I …?
There are four possible answers leading to 5 actions to take
| Not Documented | Documented | |
|---|---|---|
| Not Implemented | Clarify / Implement | Improve clarification |
| Implemented | Document | Improve documentation |
Help would be appreciated.
What’s the future of this project?
I don’t know. There’s so much more to be done, and yet, it’s largely solving the problems it set out to solve.
If nothing else, Pardon demonstrates an integration of some templating concepts, a concurrency data model (computation dependency tracking used to implement pseudo-global values without race conditions), and a language for structured list generation (maybe good for fuzzers?).
It would be great if these concepts will find new usages in other places, but if nothing else, this project is solving my needs for a http api-client request framework and I sincerely hope it grows to solve yours as well.