SOAP And REST At Odds
Published: June 26, 2017
Computer programmers like to squabble. I suppose this is true in any profession, but it is most certainly true for […]
Technocratic Panic at the Millennium and the Real Threat Beneath the Code
Published: July 2, 2018
It’s been over seventeen years since the world ended. Or, rather, it was supposed to be The End of the […]
Let’s Talk About Elections on the Web
Published: March 3, 2020
The politics of campaigns have been massively influenced by the tonal shift of the web, and they will likely never be the same.
The Winding Tale of Neopets
Published: April 16, 2018
Neopets was a massively successful and inclusive digital world, but I think people focus far too much on its advertising […]
RSS: A Well Formed Log Entry
Published: May 15, 2017
How would you structure a feed for syndicating blog content? Remember, it would need to be standard enough for a computer […]
Before There Were Smartphones, There Was I-Mode
Published: April 25, 2017
In January of 1999, members of DoCoMo held a press conference in Tokyo, attended by only a handful of people. At […]
How We Got the Favicon
Published: July 24, 2017
The favicon was a total experiment, the result of a bit of serendipity and luck.
Your Privacy Policy Doesn’t Mean A Thing; Regulating Privacy on the Web
Published: September 4, 2018
In the beginning, the web had no memory. When you followed a link to a new page, everything you did […]
A Short History of WaSP and Why Web Standards Matter
Published: March 26, 2018
This article was originally published in CSS-Tricks. In August of 2013, Aaron Gustafson posted to the WaSP blog. He had a […]
Writing About the Web… On the Web
Published: February 2, 2021
People thought a magazine about the web would never work. People thought a magazine about the web on the web would never work. They both did.
GoTo: The Forgotten Search Engine
Published: May 22, 2018
I’ve been digging into the history of search engines and centralized platforms lately. Mostly my goal has been to uncover […]
Why You’d Click on ChickClick
Published: September 16, 2020
When two sisters hit the web with their new idea, it was unlike anything anyone had seen. That one site, ChickClick, inspired so many more and crafted a foundational network of the early web.