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My book­marks Here’s a filtered selection of my personal bookmarks. A shell script exports buku entries to a JSON file that populates this page. This approach lets me use an interactive interface to build my bookmarks database without needing a dynamic site. Timestamp format: YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM , as per RFC 3339 Style Guide for Online Hypertext Bookmarked 2024-06-03:26 Tags: culture , rdf , reference , w3c , web A historical style guide for people who make things for the Web, straight from Tim Berners-Lee. Much of it is growing obsolete, but some pages remain applicable. “Cool URIs don’t change (1998)” is 100% relevant today. Institute for the Study of the Neurologically Typical Bookmarked 2024-05-22 05:23 Tags: culture , neurodiversity , philosophy , satire A parody of many neurotypically-biased initiatives feigning concern for autism, but treating it as a problem in need of a solution. This is an archive of a webpage first uploaded decades ago. React, Electron, and LLMs have a common purpose: the labour arbitrage theory of dev tool popularity Bookmarked 2024-05-10 20:35 Tags: gen-ai , llms , philosophy , web “React and the component model standardises the software developer and reduces their individual bargaining power excluding them from a proportional share in the gains”. An amazing write-up by Baldur Bjarnason about the de-skilling of developers to reduce their ability to fight back against their employers. ActivityPub on a (mostly) static website Bookmarked 2024-04-22 19:17 Tags: indieweb , tutorial , web There have been other attempts to document the process of bringing ActivityPub to a (mostly) static site, but this is my favorite so far. I wonder if I should give it a go, if POSSE ever stops serving my needs. Firefox bug 1886557: Make JIT Spraying implausible Bookmarked 2024-03-25 01:29 Tags: browsers , firefox , security This could be the biggest leap forward in years when it comes to SpiderMonkey catching up to V8 and JSC’s JIT hardening. So far, I’ve been telling security-conscious Firefox users to disable the JIT compiler, and to use Chromium when JIT is necessary; maybe I won’t have to in a few years’ time. When extension pages are web-accessible | Almost Secure Bookmarked 2022-08-31 13:14 Tags: chromium , security , web A part of a series on browser extension security , this shows the use-cases for and potential issues caused by Web-accessible extension pages. The latest in a long list of reasons why I almost always avoid using privileged browser extensions when possible, and another thing to check when I inspect an extension I consider using. Crypto Ancienne 2.0 now brings TLS 1.3 to the Internet of Old Things Bookmarked 2022-08-14 22:57 Tags: retrocomputing , security A colorful look at building TLS 1.3 support for Crypto Ancienne (“Cryanc”), bringing modern TLS to ancient hardware and historical OSes. This puts a big dent in the retrocomputing use-case for plaintext HTTP. This Page is Designed to Last: A Manifesto for Preserving Content on the Web Bookmarked 2022-08-14 15:19 Tags: favorite , web A short manifesto about keeping web pages and their build processes simple, to ensure they can be found and re-built decades in the future. Personally, my “build process” only requires a Hugo binary; everything else (efficient-compression-tool, brotli, xmllint, sd) is strictly optional. I build all these programs as statically-linked binaries and wrap them in a tarball, and fetch that tarball whenever building in CI. I might incorporate some of this into my web best practices article . Website Fingerprinting Defenses at the Application Layer Bookmarked 2022-07-30 21:03 Tags: privacy , security This paper describes an approach to fingerprinting traffic (especially for Tor hidden services) using traffic analysis. It outlines a potential mitigation called “ALPaCA”, in which servers pad responses to be less fingerprintable. I’d be interested in knowing how it compares with random record padding in TLS 1.3 , especially since TLS certificates for .onion domains are expensive. ngx_http_alpaca_module seems like an interesting WIP implementation. Oblivious HTTP Bookmarked 2022-06-15 19:39 Tags: favorite , networking , privacy , security , spec “This document describes a system for the forwarding of encrypted HTTP messages. This allows a client to make multiple requests of a server without the server being able to link those requests to the client or to identify the requests as having come from the same client.” Why the internet needs crawl neutrality Bookmarked 2022-06-13 23:00 Tags: engines , opinion , search , web As the maintainer of a long list of crawling search engines , this seems like a really important issue to me. Perhaps I should add info about crawlers and user-agent strings to that list. “The web is hostile to upstart search engine crawlers, and most websites only allow Google’s crawler.” About Ghostarchive, a website archive Bookmarked 2022-06-11 18:39 Tags: utilities Ghostarchive is another web archiving service, like the Wayback Machine or archive.today. It seems like a good alternative to the now-defunct WebCite. Linked Research on the Decentralised Web Bookmarked 2022-06-11 13:41 Tags: favorite , reference , semantics , web A long, comprehensive document by Sarven Capadisli. It studies a linked-data approach to decentralized information-sharing and communication on the Web. Right where my interests lie. Webring Directory Bookmarked 2022-06-02 19:44 Tags: culture , favorite , fun , list , reference I helped Sadness put together this webring directory, and I’m really happy it exists. 50+ entries together show that webrings are not a relic of the past, but are very much alive. High Performance Browser Networking Bookmarked 2022-06-01 00:08 Tags: favorite , networking , reference A comprehensive guide to networking and network-oriented performance tuning in the context of browsers and servers. Amazing resource. ScreenReader app - Learn VoiceOver and TalkBack Bookmarked 2022-05-24 20:55 Tags: accessibility , tutorial , utilities A FLOSS app for iOS and Android that teaches you how to use VoiceOver and TalkBack, respectively. Screen reader tutorials are woefully inadequate nowadays, so this is a sight for sore eyes. The Memetic Leptaniform | Forever's Home Bookmarked 2022-05-22 13:48 Tags: fun The Memetic Leptaniform now inhabits my mind, and it shall inhabit yours too if you navigate to this bookmarked page. Minds it inhabits must link the page. The difference between RDFa’s property and rel attributes Bookmarked 2022-05-18:28 Tags: microdata , rdfa , semantics , web This is one reason why my site uses microdata instead of RDFa Lite: it conflicts with standard use of plain-old, semantic HTML (POSH). Good POSH can silently upgrade RDFa Lite to full-fledged RDFa Core, which will cause compliant parsers to interpret the property attribute differently. RDFa Lite is therefore not an option for me. I’d love to use full-fledged RDFa, but parsers don’t always “upgrade” from RDFa Lite to RDFa Core correctly. That leaves me with microdata. Sigh. Decimal Internet Time (DIT) Bookmarked 2022-05-15 16:39 Tags: culture , fun , reference , spec The intent of Decimal Internet Time (DIT)-the standard usage reference document. Has some inspiration from Swatch Internet Time, but less biased. Seems fun to try out. Home | Odilia Screen Reader Bookmarked 2022-04-22 08:37 Tags: accessibility , linux , utilities Odilil will be a new Linux screen reader, competing with Orca. It’ll have addon support, OCR, and other much-needed features. Hopefully it eventually gives NVDA a run for its money. The computer built to last 50 years | ploum.net Bookmarked 2022-04-03 21:37 Tags: capitalism , favorite , hardware , opinion An anti-consumerism guide to building long-lasting devices that respect the limitations of the environment, our wallets, and our attention. Instead of disposable ultraportable always-online devices, we should have study machines to help us work. Some of this resonated with my store-and-forward workflows for working with email, the Fediverse, and the IndieWeb. Front-End Performance Checklist 2021 Bookmarked 2022-04-01 09:36 Tags: accessibility , favorite , frontend , reference , web A coprehensive resource for front-end performance on the Web. Full of useful links to other articles. Very long read, unless you skip all the JavaScript-related optimizaiton. Axess Lab | Articles Bookmarked 2022-03-26 21:51 Tags: accessibility , web One of the best blogs on a11y; does an excellent job showcasing why the WCAG are necessary but insufficient. Deliberately Optimizing for Harm Bookmarked 2022-03-18:32 Tags: favorite , science The idea of tuning optimization algorithms in the opposite direction to create deliberately harmful results, with the prime example being using medical tools to create bioweapons. Scary yet thought-provoking. So what's wrong with HTML 5? Bookmarked 2022-03-16 17:21 Tags: accessibility , rant , web An interesting take on the problems with HTML 5. I disagree with some of these criticism, but agree with others. Much of these issues are solved by ensuring compatibility with the Weblite specifications and by following some of my website best practices article . Digging Up the Latin Roots of 14 Abbreviations Bookmarked 2022-03-14 12:15 Tags: list , reference , writing This defines many abbreviations: e.g., et al, c.f., etc. Great reference. Security As A Class Of Interface Guarantee Bookmarked 2022-03-13 10:21 Tags: security , user interfaces A generalization of the concept of “interfaces” anad applying it to secure development practices. A Formal Theory of Spaghetti Code | Something Programming Bookmarked 2022-03-12 15:54 Tags: dev , math I grew interested in Busy Beaver programs when studying Googology; this is a response to the Spaghetti Code Conjecture of Busy Beaver programs. Google developer documentation style guide Bookmarked 2022-03-11 20:27 Tags: accessibility , dev , documentation , reference , semantics , web , writing A useful style guide for writing docs on the Web. Covers writing style, accessibility needs, and other information. The Perils of RSS Bookmarked 2022-03-10 23:08 Tags: web A reminder of what can go wrong in an existing syndication feed during website overhauls. I hope I don’t make the same mistake. Semantic markup improves the quality of machine-translated texts Bookmarked 2022-03-08 13:17 Tags: accessibility , semantics , web Text-level semantic HTML can improve machine-translation of texts containing program names, programming instructions, file paths, URIs, etc. Structured Data Linter Bookmarked 2022-03-07 22:26 Tags: utilities , w3c , web A bit better and more general than the schema.org-centric ones by Google, Bing, and Yandex. Supports a range of vocabularies . StumblingOn Bookmarked 2022-03-07 16:13 Tags: favorite , fun Inspired by StumbleUpon. This presents you with a button that ...