A History of the Web in 100 Pages - Web Directions
I’m excited by this documentary project from John! The first video installment features three historic “pages”:
- As We May Think,
- Information Management: A Proposal, and
- the first web page.
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Why The IndieWeb? (Webbed Briefs)
Heydon keeps on producing more caustically funny videos that are made for me. After the last one about progressive enhancement, this one is about the indie web.
This is the story of the birth of the web, its loss of innocence, its decline, and what we can do to make it a bit less gross.
HTML Video Sources Should Be Responsive | Filament Group, Inc.
Removing
mediasupport from HTML video was a mistake.
Damn right! It was basically Hixie throwing a strop, trying to sabotage responsive images. Considering how hard it is usually to remove a shipped feature from browsers, it’s bizarre that a good working feature was pulled out of production.
Is Progressive Enhancement Dead Yet? (Webbed Briefs)
Heydon’s newest short video is right up my alley.
History of the Web - YouTube
I really enjoyed this trip down memory lane with Chris:
From the Web’s inception, an ancient to contemporary history of the Web.
Why The Web Is Such A Mess - YouTube
Tom gives a succinct history of the ongoing arms race between trackers and end users.
Coded Bias Official Trailer on Vimeo
Coded Bias follows MIT Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini’s startling discovery that many facial recognition technologies fail more often on darker-skinned faces, and delves into an investigation of widespread bias in artificial intelligence.
Webbed Briefs
Heydon is back on his bullshit, making extremely entertaining and occassionally inappropriate short videos about web stuff.
WEBBED BRIEFS are brief videos about the web, its technologies, and how to make the most of them. They’re packed with information, fun times™, and actual goats. Yes, it’s a vlog, but it isn’t on Youtube. Unthinkable!
The pilot episode is entitled “What Is ARIA Even For?”
SydCSS 7th Birthday with Ethan Marcotte - YouTube
A great talk by Ethan called The Design Systems Between Us.
Chris Ferdinandi: The Lean Web | July 2020 - YouTube
A great presentation on taking a sensible approach to web development. Great advice, as always, from the blogging machine that is Chris Ferdinandi.
The web is a bloated, over-engineered mess. And, according to developer and educator Chris Ferdinandi, many of our modern “best practices” are actually making the web worse. In this talk, Chris explores The Lean Web, a set of principles for a simpler, faster world-wide web.
The web we left behind by Kyle Jacobson (ESNEXT 2020) - YouTube
This is such an excellent presentation! It really resonates with me.
Kyle Jacobson is a developer who’s been working with the web for over 10 years, and he talks about lessons from the past that can make the future of the web not only easier to develop using battle-tested technologies, but also one friendlier for humans.
2020: an isolation odyssey on Vimeo
What a brilliant homage! And what a spot-on pop-cultural reference for The Situation.
2020: an isolation odyssey is a reenactment of the iconic finale of 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968). Restaged in the context of home quarantine, the journey through time adapts to the mundane dramas of self-isolation–poking fun at the navel-gazing saga of life alone and indoors.
On the origin of cascades
This is a great talk by Hidde, looking at the history and evolution of cascading style sheets. Right up my alley!
WindowSwap
Look out someone else’s window somewhere in the world.
There’s something indescribably lovely about this. It’s like a kind of positive voyeurism.
I lost a lot of time to this.
Takin’ five. — Ethan Marcotte
I linked to the first of Ethan’s short videos on accessibility last week, but it’s well worth checking out all five:
Lightning-Fast Web Performance: an online lecture series from Scott Jehl
Scott is brilliant, therefore by the transitive property, his course on web performance must also be brilliant.
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Tom’s videos are so good! Did you see his excellent in-depth piece on copyright?
This one is all about APIs and the golden age of Web 2.0 when we were free to create mashups.
It pairs nicely with a piece by another Tom from a couple of years back on the joy of Twitterbots.
Sight and Sound: The Cinema of Walter Murch on Vimeo
I enjoyed this documentary on legendary sound designer and editor Walter Murch. Kinda makes me want to rewatch The Conversation and The Godfather.
Home (BBC film of J. G. Ballard’s The Enormous Space) - YouTube
Here’s a BBC adaption of that J.G. Ballard short story I recorded. It certainly feels like a story for our time.
What Does `playsinline` Mean in Web Video? | CSS-Tricks
I have to admit, I don’t think I even knew of the existence of the playsinline attribute on the video element. Here, Chris runs through all the attributes you can put in there.