The privacy nightmare of browser fingerprinting(kevinboone.me)

692 points by ingve 11 months ago | 392 comments

Kevin Boone's personal blog essay on how browser fingerprinting undermines web privacy beyond third-party cookies and de-Googling efforts.

The “smolnet”, build for friends and friends of friends(communitywiki.org)

163 points by rglullis 3 years ago | 69 comments

The “impossibly small” Microdot web framework(lwn.net)

193 points by pykello 1 year ago | 50 comments

Gemini (2023)(geminiquickst.art)

73 points by jhanschoo 1 year ago | 34 comments

Why most of us won't be inventing little languages(slesinsky.org)

82 points by luu 3 years ago | 75 comments

Original WWW proposal is a Word for Macintosh 4 file from 1990, can we open it?(blog.jgc.org)

447 points by jgrahamc 2 years ago | 188 comments

Blog post by John Graham-Cumming testing which modern software can open Tim Berners-Lee's original 1990 WWW proposal saved as a Word for Macintosh 4.0 file.

The Web Is Broken – Botnet Part 2(jan.wildeboer.net)

371 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 225 comments

Blog post by Jan Wildeboer, second in a series, arguing the web is broken by botnets, likely covering apps embedding SDKs that turn user devices into scraping proxies.

Personal blogs are back, should niche blogs be next?(disassociated.com)

588 points by gnabgib 11 months ago | 353 comments

A blog post from disassociated arguing that personal blogs have made a comeback and asking whether niche, topic-focused blogs should return too.

Why are we templating YAML? (2019)(leebriggs.co.uk)

385 points by olestr 2 years ago | 534 comments

Lee Briggs' 2019 blog post arguing against templating YAML for Kubernetes configuration and advocating data-structure tools like Jsonnet and kr8.

The internet is kind of a predatory cesspit now(stephendiehl.com)

347 points by ibobev 1 month ago | 228 comments

Stephen Diehl blog essay arguing the modern internet has become predatory compared with the amateur, non-commercial web of the 1990s.

HTML Web Components(blog.jim-nielsen.com)

417 points by goranmoomin 2 years ago | 222 comments

Jim Nielsen blog post arguing web components work differently from React components and are best used to progressively enhance existing HTML.

Your 'app' could have been a webpage (so I fixed it for you)(danq.me)

833 points by MrVandemar 3 months ago | 500 comments

Dan Q's blog post arguing that a travel company's mobile app for a school Disneyland trip should have been a webpage, and describing how he rebuilt it as one.