For a time, I used iWeb for my personal website before switching over to RapidWeaver. I remember both with fondness. There was a time when we believed everyone would build a personal website, and we made consumer software to help them do it. iWeb was discontinued in 2011, but that didn’t stop Corbin Davenport from […]

An archive documenting the panic that often greets new technologies.

Tom Critchlow: Publishing documents to the web is a well-served use case but publishing small indexes, databases and collections to the web is still an incredibly frustrating and under-served use case. It’s easy enough to set up a blog and publish one’s thoughts chronologically, unfortunately there aren’t many tools that make it easy to set […]

Ethan Zuckerman: For many years, teachers warned their students not to cite Wikipedia—the information found there didn’t come from institutional authorities, but could be written by anyone. In other words, it might be misinformation. But something odd has happened in the past decade: Wikipedia’s method of debating its way to consensus, allowing those with different […]

No. Paul Ford, talking with his 2000-self: ’00: You keep saying that. How does HTML work now? ’20: It’s pretty simple, you define app logic as unidirectional dataflow, then fake up pseudo-HTML components that mirror state, and a controller mounts fake-page deltas onto the browser surface. ’00: How do you change the title tag? ’20: […]

Interesting take from Palladium Mag: Considered frankly, this trend reveals the internet to be a technology of centralization. One of the core functions of the internet is to record material of human interest in digital format. These records span everything from our trivial preferences and financial habits to the most intimate messages we send each […]

A calming little website collecting 10 minute videos of someone’s else window. Displayed randomly, from anywhere in the world.

Ethan Marcotte: I want to suggest that web design has, as a practice, become industrialized, and I want to look at how that will change the nature of our work in the months and years to come. I want to talk about how the web has always excelled at creating new kinds of work, before […]

La propone Dieter Bohn: Deve essere linkabile Deve permettere l’accesso a qualsiasi client Con enfasi sulla seconda: Links aren’t the complicated part; it’s the part where your thing should allow any client to access it. For the web, that rule is pretty clear: whether you use Chrome or Safari or Edge or Opera or whatever, […]