‘One thing well’ is alive again. cbformat looks extremely useful — might just beat my current method of formatting code blocks in Markdown.
I’ve been doing a bit of research into
. There was a
time where XSLT was almost
removed from chromium
.
The early consensus was that
“XSLT
is failure wrapped in pain”
:-) , it’s good as a no build/compilation
transformer and has
vibes but way over engineered.
Random neo is a nice way to randomly browse Neocities. I’m always on the lookout for sites to add to my feed collection. It might be fun to upload a small meme micro blog on there once I get around to adding color/background image customization, if ever.
The best articles on are from about
15
years ago. In hindsight, RSS was probably thrown away by influential
companies and technologists because it was too hard to monetize. The great thing
about RSS though is that the spec can be explained to a non–programmer in about
an hour — that’s probably why it’s hard to kill.
Meta Platform’s Metaverse (Internet ≈ Facebook in my country) might just succeed. Well… not because they deliver on the “metaverse” (whatever that means) but because it sets up a hardware distribution chain for software/browsers (the only thing that actually matters).
The problem of global discoverability (in this case ) is partly technical and human. Habbo Hotel might just make a return :-)
Apparently we were supposed to be entering
the era of web4
right about now. “Intelligent personal agents” does sound like a nice marketing
jingle. Also… I just learned that
web5
is a thing?
Oddly enough the spec has an optional comments element. I wonder if there’s anyone using that in an interesting way.
If reader mode fully takes off, then there’s no need to worry about styles in specific situations (articles). Offer some bare minimum semantic and you’re good. Firefox’s reader mode wins hands down right now. Content before context.
Sometimes it’s amusing to stumble upon the latest centralization/decentralization debate. You could argue technically against centralization, , and censorship until you’re blue in the face.
Decentralization is pretty much a solved technical problem, but for very special non–technical reasons everything only gets more centralized from this point onwards :-)
Parsing feeds is always a pain. Don’t parse feeds inside the template engine kids :-)