Things about the web.

How do we design a "healthy" site?

What is a healthy site?

Chromium's Web Vitals is a Google initiative to log a variety of information about a website served over the internet, particularly to assess the website's behavior and efficiency in Google Chrome. The library offers an easy-to-use way to disseminate performance to a series of values, locally or in CI, that can then be tracked and reported.

Visions

Xanadu is Ted Nelson's dream of a hyperconnected world.

Interesting Specifications

Webmentions

Webmentions are ways to notify URLs when their sites are mentioned, helping construct a more social web; this notifies some publisher B when website A links their site, so that they can backlink to it!

Unfortunately, this protocol isn't standardized - but it's fun : ).

How To Create An IndieWeb Profile - Kev Quirk
getting started on the indieweb, a series of protocols constructed around the traditional web to promote greater interaction.

Do not

Use ads

Should I Block Ads?

web hostility

article "Facebook is at odds with the open web that I love and defend…" Netscape Navigator (small internet) -> big internet! The modern web is being destroyed – personalized content, growth hacking, social media activation, CMS and user experience. These websites are not built to appreciate the visitor – they are constructed to make the user a customer. Cookies bad! Small blogging good!

How do browsers work?

Good question! Here is a good article.

SEO

how seo is ruining the web Google's vaguely worded SEO advice handbook Can we reverse-engineer SEO with big data, lots of time, and search results? Is this just one neural network vs. another producing nondeterminism?

Alternatives

DNS

Beehive: CoDoNS is an alternative DNS server with a better distribution profile while offering backwards compatibility. Handshake - A Namespace For The Decentralized Web is an article pleading for an actual, decentralized namespace - the ICANN licensing system just isn't cutting it. Handshake uses a decentralized blockchain to register, track and resolve unique domain names with proof of work - this is not dissimilar to ENS.

Serving

Planktos allows users to serve content from users directly to other users by cacheing static files as a torrent. It's a cool peer-to-peer system that can cache both simple and complex static sites!