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someone is right on the web

ASCII Rendering

A deep dive into rendering images as ASCII, which is both ancient terminal magic and modern browser craft.

Write HTML Right

A practical love letter to writing HTML carefully, semantically, and without turning the page into soup. Also main page has a lovely lofi radio

CSS Filter Guide

Solaria shows no-JS filtering with radio buttons, classes, :checked, :has(), and CSS selectors.

Theme Switch Guide

Solaria's personal guide to adding a theme switcher, for giving one hand-coded site multiple moods.

How NAT Traversal Works

Tailscale explains NAT traversal with UDP hole punching, STUN, DERP, WireGuard, QUIC/WebRTC, and port mapping.

awk.info

AWK is still cool: a compact little language for slicing text, making reports, and doing useful command-line data magic.

All software sucks

Old-school Unix grumpiness with a clean moral spine: complexity is the enemy, taste is a weapon.

Stuff that rocks

A list with the energy of someone replacing half your computer setup with smaller, stranger things.

Writing HTML in HTML

This article inspired me to start this site in plain HTML. But "HTML is unpleasant to write", so I switched to Markdown.

The Twelve-Factor App

Best practices for building scalable, and maintainable cloud-native applications.

Dissonance - aatishb

Pick a sound and explore what scales, intervals, and chords are most consonant or dissonant. Also video: The Physics Of Dissonance

Viewable with Any Browser: Campaign

A reminder about old days on the web - when browser compatibility was the hard feature to add.

The small web is beautiful

Ben Hoyt on the small web: less algorithmic sludge, more handmade corners with a human pulse.

Cool URIs don't change

Tim Berners-Lee's reminder that URLs are infrastructure, not confetti. Every broken link is a tiny protocol betrayal.

HTML Standard

The HTML Standard is surprisingly readable, not some forbidden tech scroll guarded by browser wizards.

Interactive Guide to Flexbox

Josh Comeau explains Flexbox with interactive demos that make the weird parts finally click.

Johnny.Decimal life system

A filing cabinet for your whole life, with the calm severity of someone who has finally defeated folder chaos.

Just fucking use HTML

Web advice delivered like a slap on the desk: stop summoning machinery and write the page.

minimal web

The web reduced until only the bones remain, then reduced a little more for moral reasons.

nometa

Tiny etiquette with a hard stare: say the thing, skip the ceremony.

samwho

Sam Rose's site, full of visual interactive explainers about software and systems.

Simple Made Easy - Rich Hickey

Rich Hickey draws a clean line between simple and easy, then quietly ruins half your architectural opinions.

systemd complete success

systemd won. cope harder, init script enjoyers.

Website under 14kB

Tiny-web speed sermon: squeeze the page under one TCP packet and make every byte count.