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For the sanity of using web standards

It was one of those moments where something you once knew suddenly clicks again with fresh significance. Here was a URL doing far more than just pointing to a page. It was storing state, encoding intent, and making my entire setup shareable and recoverable. No database. No cookies. No localStorage. Just a URL.

Good candidates for URL state:

• Search queries and filters
• Pagination and sorting
• View modes (list/grid, dark/light)
• Date ranges and time periods
• Selected items or active tabs
• UI configuration that affects content
• Feature flags and A/B test variants --> I never though about this one

Anti-Patterns to avoid:

• state only in memory SPAs
• sensitive Data in URLs
• inconsistent or opaque naming
• overloading URLs with complex state
• breaking the back button

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Plus de 70 Po (70 000 To) de données, 300 Po brutes

Octothorpes are hashtags and backlinks that can be used on regular websites, connecting pages across the open internet regardless of where they're hosted.

Outside the grasp of social media nad the commercial web sits a broad community of people with personal websites and blogs. [...] The community has received many names:

• The Small Web contrasts this community with the “Big Web”, valuing personal ownership over scale.
• The IndieWeb also values personal ownership of websites, providing numerous technical standards and proposals to help facilitate interaction between different people’s blogs.
• Web 1.0 rejects the hype of “Web 2.0” apps, using simple, straightforward technologies to build websites.
• The Blogosphere is an old term that’s been around since 1999, referencing the community of bloggers.
• The Web Revival is the concept shared by many that this community has been growing and making a comeback.

This web relies on the hyperlinks.

There is the classic web Discovery with Blogrolls, Webrings and Feeds.

and search engines that are wonderful tools to find a specific thing, but they shouldn't be the only discovery tool, because they only show a subset of the available information.

That's why Clew highlights the small independent websites "to make discovering what real people think easier". Other search engines are doing this:

• Marginalia
• Unobtanium
• Stract
• Lieu focus on webrings.
• Mwmbl - curated by the users.
• Search My Site crawls user-submitted sites
• Wiby for websites using older technology, great for use on vintage computers.
• YaCy - a decentralized search engine
• PeARS - A search engine that can be run in the browser, without needing a server.
• Mojeek - an independent search engine

Another idea to bring back a healthier web is to provide blogrolls in the OPML format directly: https://opml.org/blogroll.opml.
Jamesg.blog created the Artemis Link Graph web extension. It lists the web pages authored by people you follow that link to the page you are viewing.

All of these has one limitation: much of the independent web today is made up of people with similar interests, in technology in particular.

Only 8% clicked on traditional search result links when an AI summary was present, versus 15% without one. Additionally, only 1% clicked directly on the links within the AI summaries.

Browser session ending after viewing a search page occurs in 26%, compared to 16% for pages with traditional results

The AI summaries tend to feature a higher proportion of links to Wikipedia and government sites.

Source: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/07/22/google-users-are-less-likely-to-click-on-links-when-an-ai-summary-appears-in-the-results/

An image gallery generator

An annual publication for exploring the vast poetic web, featuring essays, musings and a directory with the personal websites of hundreds of designers, developers, writers, curators, and educators.

HTMX filled me with so much joy when I started using it. But I haven’t felt like I lost anything since switching to Datastar. In fact, I feel like I’ve gained so much more.

If you’ve ever felt the joy of using HTMX, I bet you’ll feel the same leap again with Datastar. It’s like discovering what the web was meant to do all along.

Looking for examples of web magazines made with html/css [so the 3. option].
The spectrum:

1. a website with branching levels of navigation, average content-heavy website
2. a website with single level of linear paginated navigation, back and forth, text-heavy html/epub
3. a responsive paginated website that mimics printed magazines in the best way possible, and looks interesting on all screens
4. embedded static PDF viewer with page turn and zoom
5. static PDF

Some clock display. See https://time.r0b.io/

I was seized by the idea of combining two pre-existing computer technologies: the internet and hypertext, which takes an ordinary document and brings it to life by adding “links”. I believed that giving users such a simple way to navigate the internet would unlock creativity and collaboration on a global scale.

How to avoid AI enshittify similarly to the web?

First of all, we must ensure policymakers do not end up playing the same decade-long game of catchup they have done over social media.

Current development and governance of AI are dictated by companies.

An interactive world in 3D. Direct in the browser.

From Picallili: "The artwork, the motion and the physics are unbelievable. Stunning work."