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  • Whimsy by Ct.js
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    Whimsy is a small game engine and a fantasy console for making interactive stories where you can navigate the worlds you create and talk with stuff! Whilst simple in nature, the toolset allows making narrative-driven exploratory games with no prior experience in game development.
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  • Digital Ghost Towns: When Big Companies Acquire, Shut Down, and Sit on Premium Domains
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    The internet is littered with digital ghost towns—premium domains once associated with thriving businesses, now sitting dormant or parked, waiting for their next life. Some of the biggest companies in the world have made strategic acquisitions, only to shut down the businesses they bought, leaving behind valuable domain names that are either redirected, held indefinitely, or simply left in limbo. Let’s take a look at some high-profile cases where major corporations scooped up valuable domains, shut down the original companies, and left the URLs in the digital graveyard.
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  • This blog is hosted on a Nintendo Wii
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    If you are reading this message, the experiment below is still ongoing. This page was served to you by a real Nintendo Wii.
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  • The IndieWeb Doesn't Need to "Take Off" - Susam's Quick Notes
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    I feel that such claims about the IndieWeb not "taking off" are either stating the obvious or, if that's not the intention, completely missing the point. It's like saying that gardening hasn't taken off because most people buy their vegetables at the supermarket. The IndieWeb doesn't need to "take off" to be valuable to those who participate in it. Maintaining a personal website is about owning your digital presence, embracing creative freedom, and expressing your individuality! It's not about appealing to the masses!
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  • This page is under construction - localghost
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    If you take just one thing away from this article, I want it to be this: please build your own website. A little home on the independent web.
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  • Bookmarklets (and Custom URL Schemes) Are Criminally Underrated | silly business
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    "Bookmarklets" are an underutilized and frankly little-known feature in Chrome and Firefox (and probably most other browsers too) that allows you to create a bookmark that contains a little bit of JavaScript instead of a link to a web page.
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  • DrSnuggles/chiptune: chiptune3.js - ES6 module with AudioWorklet
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    This is a javascript library that can play module music files. It is based on the libopenmpt C/C++ library. To translate libopenmpt into Javascript emscripten was used. Modernized ES6 module version with libopenmpt AudioWorklet backend
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  • Web page annoyances that I don't inflict on you here
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    Web page annoyances that I don't inflict on you here
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  • Lens - Check your meta tags, icons, and rss feeds
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    Check your meta tags, icons, and rss feeds
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  • Don’t build your castle in other people’s kingdoms – How To Market A Game
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    The kingdom gets absorbed by another neighboring King that has no idea why people where there in the first place and starts changing the laws and everyone leaves. Example: Tumblr There are countless tales of this happening. EVERY SINGLE EXTERNAL KINGDOM will do this to you. No matter how “cool” or “hip” they are right now. They will let you down.
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  • Webmentions / ArtLung Lab
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    A brief-ish introduction to the idea of a webmention!
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  • Never Forgive Them
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    I will never forgive these people for what they’ve done to the computer, and the more I learn about both their intentions and actions the more certain I am that they are unrepentant and that their greed will never be sated. I have watched them take the things that made me human — social networking, digital communities, apps, and the other connecting fabric of our digital lives — and turned them into devices of torture, profitable mechanisms of abuse, and find it disgusting how many reporters seem to believe it's their responsibility to thank them and explain why it's good this is happening to their readers.
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  • The enshittification of the web in one image – The Interconnected
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    But this screenshot right here of the Financial Times site posting a Cory Doctorow article about enshittification is a work of art. Yes, we’ve proven that quality news needs to be paid. Yes, subscriptions are a good way to do that. And yes, cookies do often keep your computer secure. But putting an article on enshittification behind both a paywall and a giant cookie management dialog asking you to accept cookies from FT and their 27 technology partners? Chef’s kiss right there.
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  • svenstaro/miniserve: 🌟 For when you really just want to serve some files over HTTP right now!
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    🌟 For when you really just want to serve some files over HTTP right now!
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  • The Website Manifesto
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    I know. You already have a social media account. But you should also have a personal website. Here's why.
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  • modernity is stupid: a rant not about politics | The Roof is on Phire
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    The only reason I even moved to Omnivore is because Mozilla has been systematically neglecting and underfunding Pocket for years and the app is increasingly dominated by things I did not save, the literal one job it had, and I had moved to Pocket after Instapaper first changed ownership in 2013 or whatever and I didn’t like the new owners, and I also can’t go back to Pinboard because while I used to love that dude’s writing he’s turned into a transphobic asshole crank so fuck him, but like, why do I even know that?? Why do I know what Maciej thinks?? Why do I know that DHH is a fucking creep and a weirdo which is why I will never pay for their email service which otherwise seems pretty cool, why do I know that Brave is the homophobic browser in bed with cryptocurrency bros, why do I know that the Kagi dude thinks adding suicide prevention hotlines to search results for “how to kill yourself” is censorship, why do I know about Matt Mullendweeb’s entire existence?? The modern world is unbelievably stupid, and if you don’t pay attention to the stupidity when something bad happens someone shows up in your notifications all like, well what did you expect. I expect you to fuck off!!
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  • icholy/ContainerScript: Firefox Addon for programmatically assigning URLs to containers.
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    Firefox Addon for programmatically assigning URLs to containers.
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  • Don't Fuck With Scroll
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    Momentum scrolling plugins are the web equivalent of turning a functional bike into a unicycle because it "looks cool." It adds unnecessary complexity, degrades usability, and frustrates users. Instead of reinventing scrolling, stick to what works: native, predictable, fast scrolling behavior. Don't make scrolling a thing. Just let people scroll.
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  • Scripting News: Friday, November 29, 2024
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    I want to add an important feature to podcasting that can only work with RSS, it can’t work with Spotify, Google, Audible etc. The idea is subscribing to subscription lists, which the influencers are likely to really love because they can create networks of podcasts. And when they want to edit the list, if this is done right, the users will automatically be updated.
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  • Best of the old web | MetaFilter
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    Exhausted from election 2024 and tired of re-litigating the 2016 primary? Perhaps you'd enjoy re-visiting The Race for the Whitehouse 2004 or 2000 in their original web 1.0 glory. Too soon? The 1996 websites for the Dole/Kemp and Clinton/Gore campaigns are still online. Too political? Maybe you want to play Star Ship Titanic (1998) or Space Jam (1996), both preserved in high resolution 1024x768 perfection. Or relax with zombo.com (1999), spork.org (1996) and milk.com (1994). These are all reminders that Cool URI's don't change on the WWW project (1991).
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  • "Never Build Your House On Someone Else's Land" - ErosBlog
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    Never build your house on someone else’s land.
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  • Bacchus's First Rule Of The Internet - ErosBlog
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    Bacchus’s First Rule Of The Internet: Anything worth doing on the internet is worth doing on your own server that you control.
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  • Webring component - Octothorpes Demo
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    Since octothorpes get registered with an Octothorpes Ring, that means you’re automatically on a webring if you’re using octothorpes. So each Ring hosts a web component that lets you put a classic webring browser on your page. You can see it working right now in the footer of this site!
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  • ArtLung: Owning my own bookmarks over 20 years ~ 31 Oct 2024
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    I wrote code (in PHP) to import my old bookmarks. And you didn’t misread that, it’s 28,000 links over the last 20 years. They come from my original links blog, and from Delicious, and from Instapaper, and from Twitter back when I backfilled those shared links into Pinboard, which I then backfilled into my link blog database. It’s a lot of things, but really, it’s straightforward from a programming point of view. It’s a simple POST to the REST API which Linkding provides by default. I have shared most of the code I wrote as a Gist in GitHub. It includes code in PHP to convert exported CSV from Instapaper to a JSON format that my poster code can use. And over the last 2 days and over many hours, every few seconds a link would be posted. And as of now, it’s finished.
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  • Elon Musk Admits X is Throttling Link Out from the Platform
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    Elon Musk confirmed that posts containing links in their main text are deprioritized on X in a revelation that renews criticism that the platform is restricting the visibility of and access to external sources of information.
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  • I don't have time to learn React - Keith Cirkel
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    When I mentor early career developers and they ask me what they should learn, I can't say React, they don't have time. I mean sure, pick up enough React to land you the inevitable job doing it, but it's not going to level up your career. Anyone with $5,000-$10,000 can make their way through a bootcamp and scrape their way through an interview, but it's a competitive market and it's usually quite evident when your interviewing a bootcamp candidate. Stand out by picking up some more fundamentals
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  • RFC 35140: The Do-Not-Stab flag in the HTTP Header
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    This document defines the syntax and semantics of the Do-Not-Stab header, a proposed HTTP header that allows users to indicate to a website their preferences about being stabbed. It also provides a standard for how services should comply with such user preferences, if they wish to.
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  • Introducing Sill | Tyler Fisher
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    I built Sill because I value the people in my social network, and I believe I can learn the most about the world by reading what they read and hearing what they have to say. Sill listens to them at scale and helps me understand the conversation. In the month or so I’ve been using it myself, Sill has completely changed my relationship to my social network.
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  • MaggieAppleton/digital-gardeners: Resources, links, projects, and ideas for gardeners tending their digital notes on the public interwebs
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    Resources, links, projects, and ideas for gardeners tending their digital notes on the public interwebs
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  • Highlighting Text in Links with Text Fragments
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    I’ve used URL text fragments in a few posts now and often use it outside of this blog to point someone to a particular piece of text on a page. They’re a really useful feature that allows you to create a URL that links not just to a page or an anchor on that page, but specifically to a bit of text that you’d like to call out to your audience.
  • About – StarSubculture
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    StarSubculture is an online community space where creatives can showcase their websites and art and interact with a like-minded community as well as keep up with their favorite artists and websites! In this era of the internet, it’s become near-impossible to connect to other creative website owners. Here at StarSubculture, you’re free to cultivate that community that the internet is so desperately needing.
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  • House of Nettles • A Sociable Web
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    I want things to be sociable, to be friendly, to be fun. I don't mean to try to avoid conflict entirely, which is neither possible nor truly desirable. But to envision a sociable web is to envision a place where interactions that make your world richer are easy to realize, and those that make your life worse easy to curtail. I want to be able to chat in public without the world overhearing, to meet new people and be able to block creeps, and to have conversations without being drowned in a sea of bad faith.
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  • It feels like 2004 again. - Anil Dash
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    I keep having a conversation with people around the tech world about how the industry’s current state of change — especially the potential disruption of incumbents — feels like nothing so much as a cyclical repeat of what we saw in 2004.
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  • Wasm is the new CGI | Roborooter.com
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    And to be clear I don't mean the Common Gateway Interface as a protocol. I mean what CGI and the cgi-bin application model brought to the web. They allowed people to easily write code that makes websites interactive. This shifted the web from an archive of documents to a vast network of applications. It was the first "web application model". I think Wasm (WebAssembly) is setup to bring the next "web application model" to the industry.
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  • Forums Are Still Alive, Active, And A Treasure Trove Of Information - Aftermath
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    Here are the Internet forums that are still alive and kicking and full of information and interesting people.
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  • We Haven't Launched But We're Not A Secret Anymore -
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    Octothorpes is currently in a sort of liminal stage between launched and not launched, but it got posted to Lobsters and Hackernews today! Which was quite a surprise to both of us. So, if you’re reading this because you found out about us on one of those sites, here’s a little context for the project.
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  • Molly White, Citation Needed / Web3 Is Going Just Great - XOXO Festival (2024) - YouTube
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    Best known for puncturing blockchain/crypto hype with her Web3 Is Going Just Great project, writer/researcher Molly White believes a better web is possible. Launched two years ago, her Citation Needed newsletter covers “tech world without all the boosterism,” while her latest project tracks the crypto industry’s attempts to influence the 2024 elections.
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  • Weird Web October
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    Weird Web October is a challenge to try and make a website every day of October, based on the theme for each day, inspired by Inktober. It’s open to you and everyone!
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  • linkhut: A social bookmarking site
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    linkhut is an open source social bookmarking website.
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  • Raw dog the open web!
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    Highlight:In our current digital landscape, where a corporate algorithm tells us what to read, watch, drink, eat, wear, smell like, and sound like, human curation of the web is an act of revolution. A simple list of hyperlinks published under a personal domain name is subversive. Curation is punk. Lets break away from the protective layer that is our For You Pages.
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  • What RSS Needs
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    Highlight:It’s just that feeds could be so much more with some love and directed care – something that could jump from a niche use case to a widespread ‘normal’ part of the Web for many. Web feeds could be so much more if we put some effort into them. This post explores some ideas of how to start.
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  • Local-First Web Development
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    So, you want to build an app that has its data co-located with its UI? That works offline? That synchronizes between clients? And that lets its users own their data?
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  • What does it look like for the web to lose? - Chris Coyier
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    Better yet, let’s ditch the idea of native apps. All web! All web! All web!
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  • shaktool / beepbox — Bitbucket
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    This is the source code for BeepBox, an online tool for sketching and sharing chiptune melodies. All of the source code here is available under the MIT license.
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  • Tangle: a JavaScript library for reactive documents
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    Tangle is a JavaScript library for creating reactive documents. Your readers can interactively explore possibilities, play with parameters, and see the document update immediately. Tangle is super-simple and easy to learn.
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  • REST was NEVER about CRUD - Tyk API Gateway and API Management - REST was NEVER about CRUD
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  • Web Audio Modem
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    Lately, I've been working with a client where my development computer is not connected to the Internet. This is a huge inconvenience, as the unavailability of Google and Stack Overflow vastly impact my productivity. Only recently have I begun to grasp how much of my time is actually spent copy/pasting between Visual Studio and the browser. My office also features an Internet connected laptop and my development computer expose 3,5 mm jack sockets for audio devices. And thus my problems can be solved! Here's how I made a modem for closing the gap with Web Audio.
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  • The Wrong Debate About Native And Web. - otsukare
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  • Progressive Apps: Escaping Tabs Without Losing Our Soul – Infrequently Noted
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    These apps aren’t packaged and deployed through stores, they’re just websites that took all the right vitamins.
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