It was so simple, anyone who wanted to could create a free account [on Geocities, Tripod, FortuneCities, or Freeservers and build a website to share their hobbies and ideas.

The web was more about browsing and exploration.

It is worth remembering a website [...] can also be art. The web is also a creative and cultural space that [can be Free from convention defined by commercial product design and marketing].

If the commercial web is "industrial", you could say that the small web is "artisanal". One is not better than the other. They serve different needs and both can co-exist in an open web.

There is a lot of old good website, internet archive links and examples

#bookmark https://arielsalminen.com/atom.xml

Some details of the website are related on https://social.design.systems/@ariel/114222270685018742

To improve testing: throws many test and get a way to verify the output is correct.

For example, sorting numbers by ascending order should results in

for i in 1..output.len() {
   assert!(
       output[i - 1] <= output[i],
       "input {input:?} failed at index {i}, output {output:?}",
   );
}

Then implement a shrinker to reduce the list to the smallest possible error. Better
input [58, 33] failed at index 1, output [58, 33] than an array of 200 elements.

TODO: https://sunshowers.io/posts/monads-through-pbt/#2-drawing-the-rest-of-the-owl

When I got started in computers, you had to do low-level bit twiddling to get anything very interesting done, so you pretty much couldn’t avoid learning about XOR. But these days, to a high-level programmer, it’s much more of an optional thing, and you can perfectly well not know much about it.

So I collected some thoughts together and gave a lecture on XOR. Slightly to my own surprise, I was able to spend a full hour talking about it – and then over the course of the next couple of weeks I remembered several other things I could usefully have mentioned.

All of it is available on this page.