Before the social media craze or publishing platforms, and long before ‘content creator’ was a job title, blogs served as one of the primary forms of online expression and communication. [...] We had webrings, forums, and carefully curated link pages instead.

At their core, they all have one characteristic in common: they’re there because their owners wanted to carve out their space on the internet. And I think you should do the same. Let’s talk about why that is.

1. Platforms aren’t forever homes
2. SEO Writing is dead, storytelling is back
3. Communities > Followers

With the latest changes in MacOS, we can now build Progressive Web Apps for all devices.

The web of things is built on the web of documents, which is built on the web of computers controlled by Domain Name owners, which itself is build on a set of interconnected cables. This is an architecture which provides a social backing to the names for things. It allows people to find out the social aspects of the things they are dealing with, such as provenance, trust, persistence, licensing and appropriate use as well as the raw data. It allows people to figure out what has gone wrong when things don't work, by making the responsibility clear.

The value of this architecture is that each layer leverages the social components of the lower layer's architecture

• Universality
• Open Standards
• Open Web Platform (OWP)
• Open Government through Open Data
• Openness with personal data on the Social Net
• Open Platform
• Open Source
• Open Access
• Open Internet and Net Neutrality

Too many websites could generate nice reports as documents, but had no way to access the data behind it to check and build on the results.

Hypertext systems should take about 1/4 second to move from one place to another. If the delay is longer, people may be distracted; if the delay is much longer, people will stop using the system. If the delay is much shorter, people may not realize that the display has changed.

It is funny how thoughts about speed and user experience were already there before the 2000's.

Issue: Links on the web are often quite slow

One solution is to abandon hypertext links. [...] Have a one-page view.

Another strategy is to exchange one large delay for many small ones. We can sometimes arrange a Web site to to bundle large parts of the data in a package that is pre-loaded at the entrance. Within the site, link response is quick because time-consuming sound, graphic, video, and applets have been pre-loaded onto the user's computer.

A better solution, for sophisticated hypertexts that must provide crisp performance, may be to use the Web as a way to provide access to, and information about, hypertexts that can be downloaded (or purchased) as a unit and then performed on the user's machine.

Thoughts of the web and hyperlinks

eine neue Literaturgattung, bei der sich die tradierten Strukturen von Erzählungen in offene, für den Leser unerwartete Strukturen auflösen. Vielfältige Rezeptionswege werden durch die Möglichkeit, im Text zu springen, möglich. Der Leser wird dabei durch seine Auswahlentscheidungen zum Mitproduzenten des Textes.

(In context of web gardening)

1. Many hypertexts do not require elaborate navigational apparatus.
2. Rigid hypertext structure is costly.
3. The shortest path is not always the best.
4. Large hypertexts and Web sites must often contain both parks and gardens.
5. Use punctuation sparingly; unwanted interruptions are tiresome and intrusive.
6. The boundaries of parks should be especially clear, lest readers see them as mere wilderness.
7. Rigid structure makes a large hypertext seem smaller. Complex and intricate structure makes a small hypertext seem larger, inviting deeper and more thoughtful exploration.

Highways are judged by efficiency: distance, cost, safety, and time. Garden paths play a different role; they lead us through the best routes, not the shortest. They may bend to pace our journey, curving here to reveal a view, twisting there to lead us through a shady grove or a sunny clearing.

Rigid hypertext is streetscape and corporate office: simple, orderly, unsurprising. We may find the scale impressive, we admire the richness of materials, but we soon tire of the repetitive view. We enter to get something we need: once our task is done we are unlikely to linger. We know what to expect, and we rarely receive anything more.

Make an OSS version of it for the web: why not building on the web for the web?

At times, wilderness is exactly what readers want: a rich collection of resources and links. At times, rigid formality suits readers perfectly, providing precisely the information they want, no more and no less. Indeed, individual hypertexts and Web sites may contain sections that tend toward each extreme.

Often, however, designers should strive for the comfort, interest, and habitability of parks and gardens: places that invite visitors to remain, and that are designed to engage and delight them, to invite them to linger, to explore, and to reflect.

A website about web, links and hypertext... well it is a garden when someone can lost itself a bit.

Baseline is a new term that defines a feature broad adoption. There are two stages:

1. The new feature is available in all last versions of the browsers
2. The new feature is widely available after 30 months after the first stage

We can then speak of baseline 2023 that groups all features usable in the considered browsers.

Limitations:

• the browsers considered are Safari, Firefox, Chrome and Edge. The rest is unknown even if they are listed on caniuse.com
• it does not take screen readers and accessibility tools in consideration as part of "availability"

I like the model: Subject - Predicate - Object

Such as: Xerxes - Parent - Brook.

It can be modeled as such:

parent(xerces, brooke).
parent(brooke, damocles).

Note of Tim Berbers-Lee.

Put a frame around "engineering" and " ownership"

The overwhelming motivation behind it seemed to be “I made something, here it is”. Sharing things for the sake of showing them to the world. Somebody had created something, then put it online so you could see it. Visit their website (wait for the dial-up to finish), and it’s yours.

Large companies find HTML & CSS frustrating “at scale” because the web is a fundamentally anti-capitalist mashup art experiment, designed to give consumers all the power. — Mia, with valuable secrets 🤫 (@TerribleMia) November 24, 2019

You can stand out of the crowd by simply treating the web platform as what it is: a way to deliver content to people.

The best growth hack is still to build something people enjoy, and then attach no strings to it. You’d be surprised how far that can get you.