I’ve been doing a bit of research into XSLT. There was a time where XSLT was almost removed from chromium. The early consensus was that “XSLT is failure wrapped in pain” :-) imo, it’s good as a no build/compilation XML transformer and has fp 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 rss 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 RSS 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 mmorpgs) is partly technical and human. Habbo Hotel might just make a return :-)