sw-toolbox
If you’re going to dip your toes into the world of service workers, this handy library from the Chrome team is a good place to start.
Archive: August 7th, 2016
The Future of Browser History — Free Code Camp
I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately. It feels like a user’s browser history is an incredibly rich seam of valuable information just waiting to be presented in a more interesting way.
The History of Email - Eager Blog
The ancestors of the Internet were kind enough to give us a communication standard which is free, transparent, and standardized. It would be a shame to see the tech communication landscape move further and further into the world of locked gardens and proprietary schemas.
The Forgotten Kaleidoscope Craze in Victorian England | Atlas Obscura
A wonderful investigation of a culture-shifting mobile device: the kaleidoscope. A classic Gibsonian example of the street finding its own uses for technology, this story comes complete with moral panics about the effects of augmenting reality with handheld devices.
(I’m assuming the title wasn’t written by the author—this piece deals almost exclusively with pre-Victorian England.)