The internet used to be fun

Links Everywhere surfing has already replaced the older sports. <br> – Deleuze, Postscript on the Societies of Control apolloceanic · coldscars &...

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Tyler Hellard / Pop Loser

The web is changing. (Nobody denies that, of course.) The biggest changes revolve around money. (And that, as well, is not exactly surprising.) The impetus of these changes is a shift in perspective by major web companies and media sources—a perspective that is not yet shared by their audiences.

I have thoughts on the recent talk about a small, personal web revival - and not all of them coherent.

some thoughts on the state of modern web

A little while back (six months ago) I wrote about how I made a random page featuring my dad’s hats and how I want to make more evergreen content and share more photos and visual things here. For some things in my life I have become very decisive but this website is not one of them. Lol. Maybe it’s because it’s one of my few creative practices that I do purely for fun and so I feel a lot of pressure to make it amazing.

The fate of the open web is inextricable from the other ways our world is in crisis. What can we do about it?

Hi All! 🤗 Every day, we browse the Web and scroll our timelines. And every day, we find even more interesting websites, blog posts, articles, videos,...

Jumping down rabbit holes and troubleshooting: fixing Mermaid/D2 diagrams, Render and Codeberg problems, learning new tools, Pi home server refresh, and more!

The most important part of Microsoft’s WireGuard and VeraCrypt account suspensions is not the headline drama. It is the reminder that modern software trust chains can turn into chokepoints fast, especially for security tools that need signed updates to protect users.

Hyperlinks deserve more recognition in light of all the ways their value has been sidelined and denied. From deliberate corporate link suppression to link-shy site cultures on social media to the dysfunctional state of deteriorating search engines, the web has changed a lot over the years since the days of early link-based web logs, and a familiarity with the importance of links can no longer be taken for granted. It needs to be expressly advocated. To that end, I present a link compilation in praise of links.

A guide to tools and resources for joining the independent web movement. Discover blogging platforms like Pika, search engines that prioritize small sites, directories for finding like-minded creators, and more.

My commitment to building a better internet through independent web principles, open-source projects, and community-driven technology.

Tyler Hellard / Pop Loser

Sharing things I learned something interesting from. Unlike my curated and maintained links, these are more more one and done resources.

Herein you'll find all the ideas I could find (and think of) for what to do with your site. Features to add, pages to create, posts to write... Hope you find it useful!

Here you'll find all the ideas I could find (and think of) for what to do with your site. Features to add, pages to create, posts to write... Hope you find it useful!

The “old” internet: https://projects.kwon.nyc/internet-is-fun/ Networking: https://twitter.com/iximiuz/status/1859339483390296354 https://fabiensanglard.net/quake3/network.php AI: https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~duvenaud/distill_bayes_net/public/ WebRTC: https://twitter.com/arcinston/status/1858603234455126441 DL: https://fleuret.org/francois/lbdl.html https://fleuret.org/dlc/ https://spinningup.openai.com/ s3 https://simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/26/s3-conditional-writes/ https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yzLXSOtzBXyaWHfeVsWsMu4xmOH8rV6QyM5ZAnJZjMQ/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.yhvnt89pggpj data structures https://x.com/debasishg/status/1858560338456952998 Observability https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39529775 https://www.honeycomb.io/blog/how-are-structured-logs-different-from-events https://x.com/mipsytipsy/status/1858341191932338354 https://www.honeycomb.io/blog/get-infinite-custom-metrics-for-free https://x.com/mipsytipsy/status/1857626227634524541 https://x.com/walktothesun/status/1837657459869339834 https://x.com/mipsytipsy/status/1857599831470125461 https://bsky.app/profile/mipsytipsy.bsky.social/post/3l77h7eyfwe2b https://jeremymorrell.dev/blog/a-practitioners-guide-to-wide-events/ https://bsky.app/profile/jeremymorrell.dev/post/3lasvhflczb2u Bluesky https://x.com/Werner/status/1859611503537594880 https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/bluesky-engineering-culture Access tokens https://twitter.com/gunnarmorling/status/1860961333409104353 Caching https://x.com/hnasr/status/1861197188371751021 Design/architecture https://thefrugalarchitect.com/ Testing https://til.simonwillison.net/pytest/pytest-recording-vcr LLM/genai https://elk.zone/techhub.social/@simon@simonwillison.net/113539371054898619 https://elk.zone/techhub.social/@simon@simonwillison.net/113541020246317028 https://blog.dottxt.co/coalescence.html Databases https://www.scylladb.com/2024/11/25/database-internals-working-with-io/ Formal methods https://cacm.acm.org/research/how-amazon-web-services-uses-fo

In which I admit defeat, I have entirely too many bookmarks and I need to clear them out. This will become a regular type of series when content calls for blitzing the backlog of bookmarks.

Hi All! 🤗 Every day, we browse the Web and scroll our timelines. And every day, we find even more interesting websites, blog posts, articles, videos,...

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