There are many 88x31 buttons

The font must be something legilible with few pixels such as TomThumb.

The convert command of ImageMagick. A python script can center the text.

The entire Moby Dick can fit in a 88x39 button for the fun.
1) Generate the first GIF button file with
cat 22w.txt | convert -page 88x39+0+0 -background white -fill black -font tom.ttf -pointsize 6 text:- high.gif
2) Set 6 seconds per page: convert high.gif -set delay 600 -coalesce -repage 0x0 -crop 88x31+0+0 +repage good.gif

The GIF is 4.2MB and last 19 hours.

This site lets you rank the Interop 2027 proposals you care about, giving us (the Firefox team) data we can use when reviewing which proposals should be taken on.

Blurhash again :)

The author suggest a new previewsrc attribute to replace blurhash.

Les TLDs sont vraiment un business.

AV1 is argued to be better on the web.

AVIF decodes a low-fidelity rendition befor the full image arrives for example. AVIF is considered slow to decode a 5456x3632 photographic image. 700ms for libjxl

At the time, JPEG XL was a much stronger contender for medium-high fidelity lossy image compression. AVIF now dominates the entire fidelity range, so JPEG XL's one real advantage has disappeared.

So AV1 and AVIF are better for the web, but "My current optimistic hope is that JXL takes off outside the web among professionals working with tools like the Adobe suite or alternatives, and camera manufacturers, smartphone OEMs, and others take notice and begin to think about JXL more seriously."

Discover website, one for each block of the 100x100 square block.

On the other side, website owners can register their website.

Notons ainsi que les Captcha semblent en voie de disparition (ouf !) et qu’on est passés au contrôle assez opaque par les serveurs, DNS ou proxy qui tentent comme un Firewall de filtrer les robots avant même que la page ne soit servie (Cloudflare ou Anubis sont devenus communs au chargement d’une page au cours de cette année d’attaque du web par les robots). Moins de travail pour nous pauvres humains.

Et nous voilà fin 2026, les robots règnent sur le web (les statistiques de ce blog me le montrent chaque fois) que ce soit en lecture, en ingestion, ou en écriture d’ailleurs, puisque environ un tiers des textes du web seraient écrits par ou avec une IA (étude Pewresearch d’août 2026).

En 2013, le designer Sang Mun a crée normalement discernable uniquement pour les humains avec la police ZXX.
En 2016 est apparu Fungal de Jeremy Landes et Raphaël Bastide, bien plus réussi et poétique, mais qui nous parle de tout autre chose, et est pour sa part finalement plus clair pour les robots.
En 2026, Eric Lu qui a créé Mixfont, une fonderie de typographies faites par IA à San Francisco (ironie encore) propose coup sur coup deux caractères, Ghost Font, un bruit uniforme mais qui une fois mis en mouvement révèle un texte très pénible à discerner.
Quelques semaines pls tard, Decoy font utilise un texte net et un texte flou.
Shieldfont devient extrême et utilise les ligatures pour remplacer certains mots par d'autres. Elle est cependant triviale à décoder pour un LLM.

C'est toujours un jeu du chat à la souris puisque les IA arrive à lire ces fonts petit à petit.

But a link is a cultural thing: an invitation, a citation, a gift, a shortcut, a connection.

All from a simple idea: here’s a thing that points to another thing, off you go!

A small and efficient example of a link with text fragment

Franchement, la meilleure réponse aux intelligences artificielles (IA) et pour parler de l’«humanité des sites», c’est de continuer à faire des liens contextuels, dans les articles, vers des pages intéressantes.

En second lieu, c’est de proposer un blogroll de sites que l’on consulte dans la durée et qui nous stimulent.

Building websites by hands mean the solutions to errors are within you somewhere. "You’re also rewarded with greater understanding of the problem and solution, knowledge that you’ll carry with you."

An AI agent hides, obscures and obfuscate the result or the method used to reach such result.

The web can florish with little websites everywhere. It's never about the size of the audience for the OG web, but always about the community.

An alternative to the Lena picture.

The original image has some trouble with its origins https://www.thedrum.com/news/gender-equality-ad-calls-time-playboy-model-lena-image-led-jpeg-invention

It took off and https://catstxt.org/ was born.

On the contrary, llms.txt is often ignored by the crawlers.

The trap is this: getting baited into treating a set of observations as evidence, when the observations would occur whether or not the underlying thing were true. It is the intellectual equivalent of concluding your umbrella causes the rain to stop, because every time you put it away the rain does eventually stop.

It's a convenient example: . The same broken chain of inference is being applied to almost every new GEO tactic invented on a monthly basis

When you ask a model whether llms.txt helps, it is not reasoning. It is not running an experiment, consulting a source or weighing evidence. It is returning the most common thing it has seen written on the subject. The web is thick with confident posts declaring llms.txt the future, so the model converges on that consensus and reflects it back, dressed as a considered opinion. It endorsed my cats for precisely the same reason: by the time anyone asked, enough people had written enthusiastically about cats.txt that the average of the discourse said “yes.”

Quite the opposite of GEO: " That is what the “O” in SEO is meant to stand for. Optimisation is the cumulative advantage of doing the small, verifiable things a little better than your competitors, over and over, until it adds up."

Someone is getting a broader idea that the rules of the web are powerful

The project built without JS is https://textlog.cc/hot

textlog is a simple social text log: write short notes, follow people and hashtags, and join conversations without turning every thought into a performance.
Notes are limited to 500 characters. The constraint keeps them quick to write and read, making room for one thought at a time.

textlog is built around words: notes, people, hashtags, and conversations. It is intentionally small, straightforward, and easy to follow. There are no engagement tricks or pressure to build an audience.

Comment créer une Zip-Bomb si quelqu'un demande une page incongrue.

Il s'agit bien d'un format .gzip pour que la bombe soit décompressée automatiquement en mémoire.

Une alternative en HTML est aussi possible (avec une configuration nginx): https://ache.one/notes/zip_bombe_html

It isn’t often that new image formats land in browsers. In the early 2000s we had JPEG, GIF, and PNG. The 2010s gave us WebP, which was a modest step up from JPEG. But the 2020s have given us two new image formats that are a big step up from previous formats: AVIF and JPEG XL.

What are the advantage of JPEG XL:

• progressive rendering (the whole image can render step by step)
• excels at lossless imagery and compression improvements

AVIF excels at web-quality photographic images and images with a mix of sharp edges and flat surfaces.