The amazing Paul Ford is Jeffrey Zeldman's guest in Episode No. 90 of The Big Web Show (“everything web that matters”). In a fast-moving hour, the two long-time web architects discuss computer system emulators on the web, designing web archives, the value of context in software and literature, the new tribalism, the fallacy of history, buying records when you are 16, why getting to magic is more important than attaining perfection, the interconnectedness of software design and storytelling, how parenting twins facilitates A/B testing, and loads more.

Links for this episode:

• Ftrain.com
  
• A Conversation with Paul Ford, the Now-Former Web Editor of Harper's Magazine
  
• Harper's and the Harper's Archive
  
• Activate
  
• Save Publishing (bookmarklet)
  
• The Web is a Customer Service Medium
  
• Paul Ford on Medium
  

This episode is sponsored by An Event Apart.