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182 bookmarks by garrettc
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Flask-like framework in under 100 lines of code. Useful for learning.
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I provide a deeper-dive on the tech stack I like to use in 2021. It is simple, easy to work with, and allows you to grow out of it when the time comes. Updated for 2021!”
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A faster youtube embed using a web component.
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Matt Webb's guide to getting things out of your head.
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"Carbolytics is a project at the intersection of art and research that aims to raise awareness and call for action on the environmental impact of pervasive surveillance within the advertising technology ecosystem (AdTech), as well as to provide a new perspective to address the social and environmental costs of opaque data collection practices."
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"redbean makes it possible to share web applications that run offline as a single-file actually portable executable zip archive which contains your assets. […] redbean can serve 1 million+ gzip encoded responses per second on a cheap personal computer. […] It embeds the Lua programming language and SQLite which let you write dynamic pages. "
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"Together we'll uncover how to build resilient, performant, accessible and beautiful structures that work with the grain of the materials of the World Wide Web."
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"What the Internet Is and How to Stop Mistaking It for Something Else."
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"Hyperscript is an easy and approachable language designed for modern front-end web development."
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Internet history for developers and the technically curious
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"CORS (Cross-Origin Resource Sharing) is hard. It's hard because it's part of how browsers fetch stuff, and that's a set of behaviours that started with the very first web browser over thirty years ago. Since then, it's been a constant source of development; adding features, improving defaults, and papering over past mistakes without breaking too much of the web. Anyway, I figured I'd write down pretty much everything I know about CORS, and to make things interactive, I built an exciting new app:"
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"In the same way that Origins provide a balance of power between user and author styles, Cascade Layers provide a structured way to organize and balance concerns within a single Origin."
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"404PageFound started in May 2009 with the goal of uncovering dated websites (generally from 1994-2001) that are still active and have avoided major updates."
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"The study of color brings together ideas from physics (how light works), biology (how our eyes see), computing, and more. There is a long and rich history following the desire to be able to use richer materials and colors when creating visual art, and the same is true of the Web today."
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"The Metaverse: What It Is, Where to Find it, Who Will Build It?"
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Explore the timeline of milestones in the history of web design from 1990 to the present.
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"After going through the entire book, you should be able to: Understand configuration files generated by popular tools as well as those found in various documentation. Configure NGINX as a web server, a reverse proxy server, and a load balancer from scratch. Optimize NGINX to get maximum performance out of your server."
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"This paper aims to kick-start this sort of discussion for Web Monetization by exploring its potential long-term impacts; positing both positive and negative ways the technology may change how we use the web, and providing recommendations to ensure they result in a more equitable, open, and diverse web."
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This document contains a set of design principles to be used when designing Web Platform technologies.
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This graph shows the market share of mobile operating systems worldwide based on over 10 billion monthly page views.
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Wiby is a search engine for older style pages, lightweight and based on a subject of interest. Building a web more reminiscent of the early internet.
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"Fifteen years ago, four of us got together and posted The Cluetrain Manifesto which tried to explain what most businesses and much of the media were getting wrong about the Web. These New Clues come from two of the authors of that manifesto, and of the book that followed."
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The opening presentation from the Beyond Tellerrand conference held in Berlin in November 2019.
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The Web Almanac is an annual state of the web report combining the expertise of the web community with the data and trends of the HTTP Archive.
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"Use the platform until you can’t, then augment what’s missing. And when you augment, do so with care because the responsibility of ensuring the security, accessibility, and performance that the platform tries to give you by default now falls entirely on you."
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Apollo 11, the JPEG, and yes, even the Roomba.
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“Interoperability” is the act of making a new product or service work with an existing product or service: modern civilization depends on the standards and practices that allow you to put any dish into a dishwasher or any USB charger into any car’s cigarette lighter. But interoperability is just the ante. For a really competitive,…
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Travel back in time to see what your favorite websites, operating systems, applicatons, and games used to look like. A huge gallery with lots of images showing older versions of technology.
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"If you're building a web experience and want to stay fast, a performance budget can be critical. For success, embrace performance budgets and learn to live within them. Network & CPU limits on mobile can require asking hard questions like, "what is really important to my users?"
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Dat is a community-driven project for distributed data syncronization.
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Yes, there is actually a slight difference.
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All the slides plus analysis.
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