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Sorry Computer, You’re Not a Teapot

Published: November 19, 2019

You are reading this somewhere. On your laptop or on your phone or in your email or RSS reader. If […]

CaringBridge: A Community Grown with Love

Published: November 5, 2019

Web communities started small, and many began with purpose. They radiated out from a single source, spread through close-knit circles […]

October 2019 Weblog: Changing How We Make the Web

Published: October 30, 2019

A Great Reckoning I missed this last month, but if you read one thing from this months weblog, I ask […]

Code

The 10-Day Programming Language (Is Kind of a Myth)

Published: October 1, 2019

In 1995, Netscape Navigator was enjoying a meteoric rise to the top of the browser market. They had only released […]

September 2019 Weblog: Communities and Where They Sometimes Go Wrong

Published: September 26, 2019

The Darker Side of Blogging We web folk tend to look at the olden days of blogging as a simpler […]

Significant Websites

A Love Letter to Net.Art

Published: September 17, 2019

In an interview for her book Internet Art in 2004, writer Rachel Greene had this to say about why she felt […]

The O.J. Trial Comes Online

Published: August 26, 2019

In Chapter 2 of what I’m calling my complete history, I traced one of the most massive shifts in the […]

Standards

Making the Web For Everyone

Published: July 23, 2019

I talked a bit about the importance of the WWW Wizards Workshop last time in my recap on the importance […]

June 2019 Weblog: IPO’s and the New and Old Web

Published: July 1, 2019

IPO’s Old and New Slack had its so-called “non-IPO” this month, which seems to have gone pretty well and came […]

Code

That Time MooTools Almost Broke the Web

Published: June 19, 2019

This post was originally published on CSS-Tricks. On March 6, 2018, a new bug was added to the official Mozilla Firefox browser […]

May 2019 Weblog: Ask Me Anything!

Published: May 31, 2019

The web’s history is always being written, and not just by me. So each month I like to go through […]

April 2019 Weblog: Giving the Web Its Spirit Back

Published: April 30, 2019

The web’s history is always being written, and not just by me. So each month I like to go through […]

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