this talk by Jakob Nielsen is 20 minutes well worth your time. Here's a spoiler for no. 2… Wait for number one.
Archiv für "Web"
Why The Web Is Such A Mess - Tom Scott
This is a very very good video about the web and the tracking mess that we're in. (via @faulancer)
Painting With The Web - Matthias Ott
This. This. This. This is what initially brought me to the early web; the improvisation, the bugs, the happy accidents the intersection of exciting new technology, not yet understood, and the excitement of actually seeing in the browser directly if what I tweaked in the html gibberish works or not… This naive playfulness matured, of…
Lateral Thinking With Withered Technology - Matthias Ott
How Nintendo won the world and what this may have to do with a sane approach to building web experiences…
Why is CSS frustrating? - Robin Rendle
Very good read on the cognitive load CSS seems to put on "real" developers:
The History Of The URL - Zack Bloom
Here's a great read about the history of the URL. (via adactio.com)
WordPress’s role in a changing web - Heather Burns
20 minutes very worth your reading time, if you are interested in the open web, and the role large open source projects like WordPress should play in regard of policy making, and the reasons why this is not happening. All the while other interested parties try to shape the regulations that are underway and a…
Keep on Posting in the Free Web
The news of the shut-down of one of (my) oldest got-to places on the web, the "Fender Discussion Pages", has made me think, again, about how the web has changed. Hey Hey, my my content on the web will never die… I am a strong advocat for 'owning your content' and having a personal web…
RIP Fenderforum
The Fender Discussion Pages have shut down right now, after being online for 20+ years. This forum, not affiliated with the official Fender brand, was active since 1999 and one of my main sources when I got my first Fender Offset Guitar, a Jaguar, around that time. Info on these was so rare back then,…
The Layers Of The Web
Jeremy Keith's talk at Beyond Tellerrand Berlin 2019 about the "layers of the web" (be sure to watch this!) inspired me to a quick css animation experiment on codepen: See the Pen Web Layers Of Pace by Tom (@webrocker) on CodePen. Be sure to look at it in the full screen mode, the thing currently…
React - Charlie Owen
Please read this post on why there's not only a problem with this popular JS framework, but how it actually hurts 'the web' (that was, as Charlie put it). It echoes my stance and resentiment against all client-side only JS 'app'ification, and that is even without the meta aspects about society and representation that Charly…
This is the end of the web as we know it
… and I don't feel fine. die anstehende beschlossene Urheberrechtsreform der EU; die geplante "EU-Verordnung zur Verhinderung der Verbreitung terroristischer Online-Inhalte", und mal ein paar Newsmeldungen der letzten Tage: Official EU Agencies Falsely Report More Than 550 Archive.org URLs as Terrorist Content: Österreich plant Bundesgesetz über Sorgfalt und Verantwortung im Netz (SVN-G): Das russische Parlament…