Make Something Wonderful | Steve Jobs
This anthology of Steve Jobs interviews, announcements and emails is available to read for free as a nicely typeset web book.
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99 Good News Stories From 2022
A look at back at what wasn’t in the headlines this year.
s13e17: A Proposal for News Organization Mastodon Servers and More
When Dan wrote this a week ago, I thought it sounded very far-fetched. Now it sounds almost inevitable.
The Proprietary Syndication Formats - Chris Coyier
Guess which format is going to outlast all these proprietary syndication formats. I’d say RSS, which I believe to be true, but really, it’s HTML.
Let websites framebust out of native apps | Holovaty.com
Adrian brings an excellent historical perspective to the horrifying behaviour of Facebook’s in-app browsers:
Somewhere along the way, despite a reasonably strong anti-framing culture, framing moved from being a huge no-no to a huge shrug. In a web context, it’s maligned; in a native app context, it’s totally ignored.
Yup, frames are back—but this time they’re in native apps—with all their shocking security implications:
The more I think about it, the more I cannot believe webviews with unfettered JavaScript access to third-party websites ever became a legitimate, accepted technology. It’s bad for users, and it’s bad for websites.
By the way, this also explains that when you try browsing the web in an actual web browser on your mobile device, every second website shoves a banner in your face saying “download our app.” Browsers offer users some protection. In-app webviews offer users nothing but exploitation.
When Women Make Headlines
This is a great combination of rigorous research and great data visualisation.
Friendly Indie micro-publishers
From Patrick Tanguay:
A list of small micro-publishers — most of them run by one person — putting out great content through their websites, newsletters, and podcasts.
The Year in Cheer
192 more stories of progress from 2021.
99 Good News Stories You Probably Didn’t Hear About in 2021
Some welcome perspective on healthcare, conservation, human rights, and energy.
On User Tracking and Industry Standards on Privacy | CSS-Tricks
Prompted by my post on tracking, Chris does some soul searching about his own use of tracking.
I’m interested not just in the ethical concerns and my long-time complacency with industry norms, but also as someone who very literally sells advertising.
He brings up the point that advertisers expect to know how many people opened a particular email and how many people clicked on a particular link. I’m sure that’s right, but it’s also beside the point: what matters is how the receiver of the email feels about having that information tracked. If they haven’t given you permission to do it, you can’t just assume they’re okay with it.
30 Days of HTML
Receive one email a day for 30 days, each featuring at least one HTML element.
Right up my alley!
The Internet Archive on the future of the web - Protocol — The people, power and politics of tech
A profile of Brewster Kahle and the Internet Archive:
Tech’s walled gardens might make it harder to get a perfect picture, but the small team of librarians, digital archivists and software engineers at the Internet Archive plan to keep bringing the world the Wayback Machine, the Open Library, the Software Archive, etc., until the end of time. Literally.
Robin Rendle › Newsletters
A rant from Robin. I share his frustration and agree with his observations.
I wonder how we can get the best of both worlds here: the ease of publishing newsletters, with all the beauty and archivability of websites.
When you browse Instagram and find former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s passport number
This was an absolute delight to read! Usually when you read security-related write-ups, the fun comes from the cleverness of the techniques …but this involved nothing cleverer than dev tools. In this instance, the fun is in the telling of the tale.
About Feeds | Getting Started guide to web feeds/RSS
Matt made this website to explain RSS to people who are as-ye unfamilar with it.
Notifier — Convert content sources to RSS feeds
A service that—amongst other things—allows you to read newsletters in your RSS reader.
FEMME TYPE – Celebrating Women in the Type Industry
A treasure trove of case studies and interviews.
Principles and priorities | Hacker News
I see that someone dropped one of my grenades into the toilet bowl of Hacker News.
6, 95: Barrel aged
Human consciousness is the most astonishing thing, and most of it happened in deep time, beyond the reach of any writing and most legends. Human experience, in general, is prehistoric. And prehistoric experience was just as full as yours and mine: just as deeply felt, just as intelligent, just as real. What we know of it is mostly from durable artifacts and graves. I’m thinking of the woman found near the Snake River, buried at the end of the ice age with a perfectly crafted and unused stone knife tucked under her head. I’m thinking of the huge conical hats, beaten from single pieces of gold and inscribed with calendars, found north of the Alps. I’m thinking of Grave 8 at Vedbæk, where a woman held her premature baby on the spread wing of a swan. These are snapshot that experts can assemble into larger ideas, but what they tell all of us is that we’ve been people, not just humans, for a very long time.
Laura Kalbag – How to read RSS in 2020
RSS: now more than ever!
You get to choose what you subscribe to in your feed reader, and the order in which the posts show up. You might prefer to read the oldest posts first, or the newest. You might group your feeds by topic or another priority. You are not subjected to the “algorithmic feed” of Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, where they choose the order for you.