some naive networking greybeard once wrote that a good URL never changes, or somethingbut URLs do change because everything changes, and the expectations around their longevity and change are one place where people exert power and have power used over them.if people rely on a URL …
“Search Engine Optimization”Blech.I hate it. This is what SEO should be:Write content on the internet. Make sure it is output in semantic, accessible HTML.Make sure the performance on the site isn’t a disaster.Play no games. Do no tricks.Do that over a long period of time on the …
We must find our way back to the path.We have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to do it. I'm betting literally everything I've got on this.Software, properly done, is an act of service. It is the highest tradition of human generosity and care.Software is the opportunity to …
I love the indieweb carnival. Every month, a new blogger hosts a topic on their website, and everyone else is invited to post about it on theirs. Webmentions link it all together, allowing anyone to browse through all the different points of view and modes of expression. It’s …
When Mathew Modine’s character first shows up in Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, I figured the rest of the cinema audience wouldn’t have appreciated me shouting out “VANNEVAR BUSH IN THE HOUSE!” so I screamed it on the inside.
When Mathew Modine’s character first shows up in Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, I figured the rest of the cinema audience wouldn’t have appreciated me shouting out “VANNEVAR BUSH IN THE HOUSE!” so I screamed it on the inside.
The border:none conference was in Germany last week followed by an IndieWebCamp event, so several indieweb people were there. In the chat, the amount of current Covid cases was brought up and a mention of how few were masked in a crowd of about 200.
One of the students I work with accesses the web, and computing generally, through the JAWS screen readerI feel so fucking lucky for the experience of teaching someone who uses technology this way. Accessibility has always been important to me, but it's always been abstractI've …
While Twitter’s current owner continues to seek the spotlight, his manic stewardship of the platform has seen most peoples attention move to alternative social networks and ways of connecting with each other.
