Approximate Text Search Made Easy
A step-by-step explanation by Henrik on how he implemented fuzzy search on his music site—something I could do on The Session. He even talks about expanding this to work with ABC notation.
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Adventure
The Internet Archive is now hosting early Macintosh software emulated right in your browser. That means you can play Adventure: the source of subsequent text adventures, natural language parsing, and chatbots.
Colossal Cave Adventure (also known as ADVENT, Colossal Cave, or Adventure) is a text adventure game, developed originally in 1976, by Will Crowther for the PDP-10 mainframe. The game was expanded upon in 1977, with help from Don Woods, and other programmers created variations on the game and ports to other systems in the following years.
In the game, the player controls a character through simple text commands to explore a cave rumored to be filled with wealth.
Phishing with Unicode Domains - Xudong Zheng
Domains registered with punycode names (and then given TLS certificates) are worryingly indistinguishable from their ASCII counterparts.
Can you spot the difference between the URLs https://adactio.com and https://аdаctіо.com?
Patterns Beyond Context · Matthias Ott – User Experience Designer
If we describe patterns also in terms of content, context, and contrast, we are able to define more precisely what a specific pattern is all about, what its role within a design system is, and how it is defined and shaped by its environment.
Tim Berners-Lee ~ The World Wide Web - YouTube
There’s something very endearing about this docudrama retelling of the story of the web.
The Secret History of Hypertext - The Atlantic
The latest excellent missive from The History Of The Web—A Brief History of Hypertext—leads back to this great article by Alex Wright on Paul Otlet’s Mundaneum.
Fluid Paint
The texture here is shockingly realistic.
Detecting text in an image on the web in real-time - Tales of a Developer Advocate by Paul Kinlan
The text detection API is still in its experimental stage, but it opens up a lot of really interesting possibilities for the web: assistive technology to read out text, archiving tools for digitising text …it’s all part of the nascent shape detection API.
Mercury by Postlight
Readability is back, but now it’s called Mercury.
Hyper text. — Ethan Marcotte
Ethan looks back on Mandy’s talk from dConstruct 2014 which is more relevant than ever.
The world-wide web (PDF) by T.J. Berners-Lee, R. Cailliau and J.-F. Groff
Well, look at these fresh-faced lads presenting their little hypertext system in 1992. A fascinating time capsule.
How to Make Sense of Any Mess
Did you know that Abby Covert’s book is available online in its gloriously hyperlinked entirety?
Jeremy Keith | < A > | HTML Special, CSS Day on Vimeo
The video of my talk on hypertext at the HTML Special before CSS Day. I’m pretty pleased with my delivery here. There’s a bit of Q&A afterwards as well.
Aligning text smartly in CSS
Here’s a clever way to get text centred when it’s short, but left-aligned when it wraps.
A Personal History of the Text Adventure – Read-Only Memory
Naomi Alderman:
The text adventure, like poetry, tends to attract a small band of devoted fans rather than hundreds of millions of casual players. And yet, those who care about writing know that they are where the form starts; and I can’t help feeling that videogames in general would be better if they took as much care over their words, and over their narratives, as text adventures do.
mortenjust/cleartext-mac: A text editor that only allows the top 1000 most common words in English
This could pair up nicely with the most dangerous writing app.
RFC 7763 - The text/markdown Media Type
Markdown gets its own media type: text/markdown.
The New Web Typography › Robin Rendle
A wonderfully thoughtful piece on typography, Jan Tschichold and the web. This really resonated with me:
It’s only been over the past year or so in which I’ve recognised myself as a ‘Web designer’ with a capital W, as I now believe that something happens to information and technology, and even typography itself, when people pass through these interconnected networks and interact with hypertext.
It’s for these reasons that I don’t believe in “digital design” or “designing for screens” and it’s why I’m often attracted to one particular side of this spectrum.
Robin proposes three “principles, suggestions, outlines, or rather things-that-I-ought-to-be nervous-about when setting text on the web”:
- We must prioritise the text over the font, or semantics over style.
- We ought to use and/or make tools that reveal the consequences of typographic decisions.
- We should acknowledge that web typography is only as strong as its weakest point.
There’s an in-depth look at applying progressive enhancement to web type, and every single link in the resources section at the end is worth investigating.
Oh, and of course it’s beautifully typeset.
How To Write Telegrams Properly by Nelson E. Ross
A delightful and informative booklet from 1928.
Follow the links | A Working Library
The ability to follow links down and around and through an idea, landing hours later on some random Wikipedia page about fungi you cannot recall how you discovered, is one of the great modes of the web. It is, I’ll go so far to propose, one of the great modes of human thinking.