The most interesting thing about https://www.fastly.com/blog/headers-we-dont-want is the indication that the culture of the web is a cargo-cult one where we will waste kilobytes per response on redundant headers that were deprecated 20 years ago or present possible security problems
and when two wizards love each other, their aspects intermingle, a giant spider grows scales of gold while the clockwork starts looking more organic and web-like
In the future when people tell me the web stack is an acceptable GUI layer I should just show them this: https://www.vox.com/2018/5/3/17309078/digital-art-diana-a-smith-francine-coded-browser-art ; if drawing a picture is impressive with your tools, your tools are shit
GitHub - motherboardgithub/mass_archive: A basic tool for pushing a web page to multiple archiving services at once. https://github.com/motherboardgithub/mass_archive
Web 2.0 Expo NY: Clay Shirky (shirky.com) It’s Not Information Overload. It’s Filter Failure. - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LabqeJEOQyI
The Web That Wasn’t - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72nfrhXroo8
Brutalist design is the bad influence we all need https://www.imaginarycloud.com/blog/why-we-need-web-brutalism/
Code and Data for the Social Sciences:A Practitioner’s Guide http://web.stanford.edu/~gentzkow/research/CodeAndData.xhtml
One of those metamaterial invisibility cloaks, but as superstructure around Earth: Mountains and pillars and struts and webs and microscopic fogs, constantly shifting to account for the movement of humans in the structure
Using Ethics In Web Design — Smashing Magazine https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2018/03/using-ethics-in-web-design/
Hot take: the web never ‘belonged to the people’ – the moment a centralized client-server model with hostnames embedded in the addressed was decided upon, the seeds of Facebook & Google were sown.
QOTD: ‘The Web is the minimal concession to hypertext that a sequence-and-hierarchy chauvinist could possibly make.’ -Ted Nelson
It is written here that the ancients wrote their books in hyper-ink on pages of spidersilk that they assembled into webs. One word of this ink, my friend, could contain a book, but sadly, most of their works fell victim to inkrot
Bad idea of the day: an extension that runs term extraction on whatever web page you’re viewing and then increases the size and contrast of words based on their computed importance ranking
[Updated] BlueGriffon Tutorial: Design a website using the open source BlueGriffon web editor ⌘ https://www.thesitewizard.com/bluegriffon/bluegriffon-2-tutorial-1.shtml
Sustainable community education through WTFM http://web.archive.org/web/20170416184606/http://www.roaming-initiative.com/blog/posts/wtfm
Band name of the day: drink the web
Dotgrid Web Release | https://wiki.xxiivv.com/dotgrid
The OpenBSD web stack, by Michael W. Lucas (EuroBSDcon 2017) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLwAcruM65A
Web app developers: OF COURSE I DIG THESE TRAIN TUNNELS WITH A JEWEL-ENCRUSTED GOLD DECORATIVE COCKTAIL FORK. EVERYBODY DOES. WHAT DO YOU EXPECT ME TO USE, A TOOTHPICK?
Web application design is like a generation of people looked at that text adventure written in postscript and said LETS WRITE ALL FIRST PERSON SHOOTERS IN POSTSCRIPT EMBEDDED IN SELF-MODIFYING LATEX DOCUMENTS FOREVER
What’s the Difference Between a Domain Name Registrar and a Web Host? ⌘ https://www.thesitewizard.com/domain/difference-between-domain-registrar-and-web-host.shtml
André Staltz - A plan to rescue the Web from the Internet https://staltz.com/a-plan-to-rescue-the-web-from-the-internet.html
The World Wide Web Sucks - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tefielQeHZY
GitHub - hypotext/hyperbible: The new revised international KJV-ASV-DRB-DBT-ERV-WBT-WEB-YET-AKJV-WNT version https://github.com/hypotext/hyperbible/
Gopher: Remembering the web that wasn’t – Andrew Writing – I make websites, and write stuff. http://ajroach42.github.io/gopher-remembering-the-web-that-wasn-t/
Tim Berners-Lee on the future of the web: ‘The system is failing’ | Technology | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/nov/15/tim-berners-lee-world-wide-web-net-neutrality
How Trump walked into Putin’s web | News | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/nov/15/how-trump-walked-into-putins-web-luke
Josh Millard - Keeping Web Communities Healthy in a Dark Timeline - DonutJS October 2017 - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhun8OzAmfg
» A Net Before the Web, Part 3: Content and Competition The Digital Antiquarian http://www.filfre.net/2017/11/a-net-before-the-web-part-3-content-and-competition/
» A Net Before the Web, Part 2: Service to Community The Digital Antiquarian http://www.filfre.net/2017/11/a-net-before-the-web-part-2-service-to-community/
» A Net Before the Web, Part 1: The Establishment Man and the Magnificent Rogue The Digital Antiquarian http://www.filfre.net/2017/10/a-net-before-the-web-part-1-the-establishment-man-and-the-magnificent-rogue/
Web Typography: Designing Tables to be Read, Not Looked At · An A List Apart Article https://alistapart.com/article/web-typography-tables
social networks are among the few spiders known for weaving their web out of their victims instead of silk
Left Web Release | https://wiki.xxiivv.com/left
Surely everyone has one of these folders! You know, just in case the unlikely happens and your laptop is still with you and works https://twitter.com/i/web/status/903788821589975040
Companies rent trawlers in search for the actual deep web: The knowledge of the Deep Ones, hidden in ocean basins, protected by black ice
GitHub - mattgodbolt/compiler-explorer: Run compilers interactively from your web browser and interact with the assembly https://github.com/mattgodbolt/compiler-explorer
Traces by Mike Caulfield #16: If the Future of the Web Is TV, What Is the Future of Misinformation? https://tinyletter.com/michaelcaulfield/letters/traces-by-mike-caulfield-16-if-the-future-of-the-web-is-tv-what-is-the-future-of-misinformation
Web of Lies — Real Life http://reallifemag.com/web-of-lies/
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The World Wide Web Sucks - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tefielQeHZY
Checking to see if a twtxt is currently syncing over to my raspberry pi web server.
the sun splits into two, four, differentiates into a god fetus, a web of neurons that envelop the sky in shining axons
Disembodied hands scuttle through the attic, building their webs with needle and thread↵One even carries a clutch of baby hands on its back
Humans cultivated in a matrix will eventually build a web (xtüI et al. 7330; Sol3 7441). Research into the nature of their prey is ongoing (
There is one point where the Web’s threads run dense and form a cocoon. It was no spider that wove this, but Psyche, goddess of butterflies.
@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net I think we 100% on the same page about self hosting. I thought the article was more about stopping to cooperate with the corporate web. We need to develop standards with our own priorities forefront.