Link archive: July 1st, 2013

Enough with the JavaScript already!

A great set of slides from Nicholas, all about the disturbing trend in “modern” web apps to depend entirely on JavaScript as a single point of failure.

United Pixelworkers — Future Friendly

You can now purchase some very fetching Future Friendly T-shirts from United Pixelworkers and fly your Future Friendly freak flag high!

Best of all, all the profits go to the Internet Archive.

The spread of link rot by Felix Salmon

What I fear is that the entire web is basically becoming a slow-motion Snapchat, where content lives for some unknowable amount of time before it dies, lost forever.