Milky Way over Southwest Alentejo and Vicentine Coast Natural Park, Portugal (© Daniel Garrido/Getty Images)

I don’t particularly write for an online audience, but netsurfers I speak a truth; short » long!

Yeah, obviously (duh), but the average estimated attention span online clocks in just under a goldfish (9 seconds) or maybe more!

I’ve only fully realized this by happenstance in a sorta offline–ish short/long blog experiment, but it blows my mind because my ability to focus is typically 2~4 hours.

Cuban tody, Alejandro de Humboldt National Park, Cuba (© Bruno D’Amicis/Minden Pictures)

A beer tent at Oktoberfest in Theresienwiese, Munich, Germany (© Peter Kneffel/picture alliance via Getty Images)

nikitonsky: Some websites just can’t let you read a plain text article from start to finish. It’s an impossible task for them. Just text. A thousand words. But no. It has to be “an experience”

Mission church ruins at Quarai, Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument, New Mexico (© Thomas Roche/Getty Images)

How we built a performant, scalable, JavaScript-native database on top of FoundationDB.

The Concise Binary Object Representation (CBOR) data format is designed for small code size and small message size. CBOR Object

Path properties express information about paths across a network and the services provided via such paths. In a path-aware network, path

Przewalski’s horses, Hustai National Park, Mongolia (© Ondrej Prosicky/Shutterstock)