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aboard-io/tinylittleoffice: A free office suite where your document is inside the link and easy to share. There's no account and nothing saved unless you choose.

Wed, 28 Oct 2026 07:32:02 +0000

A free office suite where your document is inside the link and easy to share. There's no account and nothing saved unless you choose.

Tags: #nifty #office #tools #web #webdev

Michael Tsai - Blog - Reddit to Remove RSS

Wed, 07 Oct 2026 18:19:22 +0000

Well, this sucks ass.

Tags: #reddit #rss #web

Why don’t more developers “use the platform”? | Read the Tea Leaves

Wed, 07 Oct 2026 17:31:48 +0000

The argument is simple: why build something yourself, in JavaScript, when the browser can do it for you? Whatever you build, it’s likely to have poorer performance and worse usability than something the browser could just give you out-of-the-box.

Tags: #web #webdev

Clicks have killed the Inverted Pyramid

Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:29:10 +0000

Writing students once learned that putting the most important information first in an article was the preferred, humane way of reporting on a situation. This allowed readers to quickly decide if a story interested them without having to read further.

Tags: #blogging #journalism #metablogging #web #writing

Tiny Emulators

Mon, 13 Jul 2026 19:21:14 +0000

Tags: #emulation #nifty #tech #web

Memories Can’t Wait—or, How I Learned to Keep Worrying About the Web - Jeffrey Zeldman Presents

Mon, 13 Jul 2026 18:14:19 +0000

The web is still the best hope we have for a durable, shared memory. But it requires us to be gardeners, not just tenants. To plant things in soil we control, and to tend them. Because if we don’t, the only record that we were here will be someone else’s ad inventory, and when the ads move on, we’ll move with them—into the quiet, unmarked graveyard of the deleted.

Tags: #history #selfhosting #web #webdev

The Internet Doesn't Want Readers. It Wants Livestock. – The Grumpy Welshman

Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:17:15 +0000

"...mind you, no one's ever paid me for my manners either."

Tags: #blogging #metablogging #web

Be a Gardener, not a Tenant - Lireo Designs

Thu, 09 Jul 2026 17:45:43 +0000

Cloud services are not forever.

Tags: #selfhosting #web #webdev

Hate “The Algorithm?” RSS Is One of the Tools You’ve Been Looking For | Electronic Frontier Foundation

Tue, 07 Jul 2026 16:45:49 +0000

RSS is one of the best examples we have of the open web, where we can design and customize how we experience the internet, not the other way around. RSS has come in and out of fashion, been declared dead, and has come back, every time. Open systems are the best way forward to a free, equitable internet, and the resilience and continued reinvention of RSS has shown just how creative the web community can be with open protocols.

Tags: #metablogging #rss #web #webdev

readtedium/WIT: A recreation and modest modernization of WIT (W3 Interactive Talk), the original web forum, dating to June of 1994.

Mon, 06 Jul 2026 03:50:51 +0000

A recreation and modest modernization of WIT (W3 Interactive Talk), the original web forum, dating to June of 1994.

Tags: #forums #web #webdev

Firefox's AI kill switch exists. Only 1% of users have flipped it.

Sat, 27 Jun 2026 00:58:13 +0000

Mozilla built an AI kill switch into Firefox after its users demanded one. Only 1% have used it. Another 3% turned off some AI features selectively. The rest left everything on. CEO Anthony Enzor-DeMeo says the point is not the percentage but the choice.

Tags: #ai #firefox #llms #mozilla #web

The Web We Know Is Going to Disappear - Minid.net

Fri, 26 Jun 2026 17:24:09 +0000

Every generation of computing believes the interface it loves will last forever. It never does. I saw information move from floppy disks to BBSs, from BBSs to the Web, from the Web to Flash, from Flash back to open standards, from websites to mobile apps, and now from search engines to AI chat interfaces. The Web will not vanish overnight, but the Web as we know it, the open place where people search, click, read, browse, publish, and discover, is already being replaced by something more convenient, more centralized, and much harder to escape.

Tags: #ai #bbses #history #tech #web

LES ORCHARD IS IN THE WEIGHTS

Sat, 20 Jun 2026 20:53:02 +0000

LES ORCHARD IS IN THE WEIGHTS — Mozilla software developer

Tags: #ai #llms #web

Hershey Noailles

Thu, 11 Jun 2026 18:07:14 +0000

The Hershey fonts are a collection of vector fonts developed c. 1967 by Dr. Allen Vincent Hershey at the Naval Weapons Laboratory, and originally designed to be rendered using vectors on early cathode ray tube displays. Decomposing curves to connected straight lines allowed Hershey to produce complex typographic designs. In their original form the font data consists simply in a series of coordinates, meant to be connected by straight lines on the screen. We forked hersheytextjs and made it a program that defines strokes in css, then exports it as a font.

Tags: #fonts #hershey #vector #web

Ask HN: Is the web for machines (/llm.txt) the one we wished we had as humans? | Hacker News

Fri, 05 Jun 2026 23:56:31 +0000

We broke the web so badly for humans that we had to build a clean web for machines, and now humans will have to use machines to experience a clean web again.

Tags: #ai #llms #web #webdev