Meta in Myanmar (full series) - Erin Kissane's small internet website
Between July and October of this year, I did a lot of reading and writing about the role of Meta and Facebook—and the internet more broadly—in the
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The Death of Decentralized Email
A historical review of the multi-decade centralization and capture of the email protocol.
The next major development in email deliverability included the standardization of reputation scores. ‘SenderScore’ and other reputation systems emerged at this time. False positives were further reduced by adding sender authentication mechanisms like Sender Policy Framework, SenderID, and Domainkeys Identified Mail.
The next major development in email deliverability included the standardization of reputation scores. ‘SenderScore’ and other reputation systems emerged at this time. False positives were further reduced by adding sender authentication mechanisms like Sender Policy Framework, SenderID, and Domainkeys Identified Mail.
Of course, if you're familiar with how these technologies work then you'll notice that most of them are reliant upon centralized gatekeepers who assign IP addresses and control domain registrations.
As a result, today over over 90% of email users are captured by 5 companies.
Tacit Knowledge is Dangerous
Then Life Continued
How I Use OMG.lol Statuses
The fun little service omg.lol is the new hotness on micro.blog and seems to be seeping out into the wider internet. Not only is it ridiculously cheap for what you get, the developer Adam seems to be making constant updates and offering more and more value for money.
Estimating the number of your RSS subscribers
Analyze server access logs to view the subscriber count from popular RSS readers.
47 best blogging platforms to start your site
These are 47 of the best blogging platforms where you can start your site in 2020, publish amazing content and build your audience. It’s easier than ever to start a site and create your online home.
blakewatson.com – omg.lol: an oasis on the internet
If you enjoyed the old web of the 90s and 00s; if you love tinkering with your personal website; or if you just like quirky, fun things on the internet, you will love this.
How to Customize the Footer on a Write.as Website — Attach to Process
There are two ways that I know of to customize the footer on a Write.as website. The first one is through CSS and the second one is throu...
iPhone First Impressions
Review of the first iPhone from Daring Fireball.
Sweep the Sleaze | Information Architects
Promising to make you look wired and magically promote your content in social networks, the Like, Retweet, and +1 buttons occupy a good spot on pretty much every page of the World Wide Web. Because o
Pluralistic: “If buying isn’t owning, piracy isn’t stealing” (08 Dec 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
The Bullshit Web
My home computer in 1998 had a 56K modem connected to our telephone line; we were allowed a maximum of thirty minutes of computer usage a day, because my parents — quite reasonably — did not want to have their telephone shut off for an evening at a time. I remember webpages loading slowly: ten […]
The small web is beautiful
A vision for the "small web", small software, and small architectures.
Taco bell
A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden
A newly revived philosophy for publishing personal knowledge on the web
Gardens are imperfect by design. They don't hide their rough edges or claim to be a permanent source of truth.
Rediscovering the Small Web
Most websites today are built like commercial products by professionals and marketers, optimised to draw the largest audience, generate engagement and 'convert'. But there is also a smaller, less-visible web designed by regular people to simply to share their interests and hobbies with the world. A web that is unpolished, often quirky but often also fun, creative and interesting.
One consequence of this is that most of the websites that people get to "organically" are created by professionals and marketers who "position" themselves on those keywords. This means that the smaller, amateur web gets hidden in the shadows of web professionals who design around specific keywords and audiences.
A Brief History of Lapel Pins | Metal X
Lapel pins have become immensely popular nowadays. Today, we’re going to back to the early days of its uses and see how custom lapel pins started and evolved.
I have joined the IndieWeb
The collapse of Twitter last year got me thinking about closed platforms and reducing the hold that privately-owned silos have over the Internet.
Personal website hunting
Costco Capitalism
Can consumers at Costco really have their free sample and eat it too?
Why in any company you should be using version control for anything - how we use Github not only for code, but also for writing!
At Nozbe among all the apps we use to run our company, we also take advantage of Github’s implementation of Git - the version control system - because when many people work on code, things can quickly fall through the cracks if you’re not using a version control system.
Independence
Against an Increasingly User-Hostile Web - Neustadt.fr
We are quietly replacing an open web that connects and empowers with one that restricts and commoditizes people. We need to stop it.
We're all lurkers now
No one's talking online anymore.
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The Case Against Everything Buckets — Alex Payne
The Mac software ecosystem faces a plague. A plague of Everything Buckets. Indulge me.
If you search for “productivity” or “organization” software for the Mac, you’ll find variations on a particular type of application. These applications claim to be “your outboard brain” or “your digital filing c
Write plain text files | Derek Sivers
Waterbed Theory
Markdown (Aaron Swartz: The Weblog)
Hacking the iPhone Notes App for the Admittedly Nit-Picky Purpose of Changing the Text Font to Helvetica
How to hack the iPhone Notes app to use Helvetica as the text font.