We have released a new library: TypoRules for #PHP 🎉
It is not actually new, as we have been working with it for years to enable outstanding #typography in our #web and #print applications. What is new is that all functionalities are now available in a bundled form and as #opensource.
Exciting updates on my site development at Author Mulhall 📚! Stay tuned for the launch of authormulhall.com. I’d love to hear your thoughts on the current progress. 🤩 Are you liking the look so far? #writing#writingcommunity#writers#authors#web#webdesign
I remember when people who ran web sites would ask me "How can I keep people on my site?" and I'd say "You can't. The very nature of the web is an ever expanding universe meant to be explored. People will leave your site, but if you want them to return you need to provide reasons for them to return, not just try to lock them in."
Many yearn for the "good old days" of the web. We could have those good old days back — or something even better — and if anything, it would be easier now than it ever was.
If you've ever found yourself missing the "good old days" of the #web, what is it that you miss? (Interpret "it" broadly: specific websites? types of activities? feelings? etc.) And approximately when were those good old days?
No wrong answers — I'm working on an article and wanted to get some outside thoughts.
@molly0xfff 1995-2005. There was a quirky Internet before that, but the #web everybody knows really blossomed in that era. Decentralized. Quirky. I was safe to say what you wanted (without worrying about people doxxing you). It was easy to create something with a minimum of HTML. Geocities was pretty bare bones and easy for people to figure out and make things. Early blogs. No walled digital gardens.
@molly0xfff
I started scrolling through the comments and was struck by how many conflate #web with #Internet. I suppose what I miss is that many who only know the Internet via the Web fail to understand they are NOT the same thing.
@molly0xfff Vast choice of millions of quirky small tiny websites, including, but not limited to, blogs, "check out my hobby", movie websites. All that personal expression that was not funneled into the same three websites' allowed formats.
@molly0xfff I miss telnet BBSes, mostly. But for #web things, I miss ephemeral sites like the Trojan Room Coffee Pot or FogCam. Nando.net was good, and Yahoo was fun when it felt like you were just clicking through a digitized Yellow Pages book.
> "If you've ever found yourself missing the "good old days" of the #web, what is it that you miss?"
@molly0xfff I like how simple and home-made everything was, but also how new and exciting it all was. Everyone felt like the web was something truly revolutionary and world changing, and we were participating in it all together.
So many people tried making their own homepages, and these were all like scrapbooks. People would post about what they liked, or what they knew about, or their hobbies, or they would make up memes, and they would share other peoples work just by linking to them, or sometimes just copying and pasting to their own website. People learned how to write basic markup in HTML from online tutorials and by looking at other websites. Some people would use web page editors by Netscape or Adobe.
And there were so many small companies out there trying to make money on new web based technology, but this was before JavaScript was the all-powerful language of the web. Sometimes they used Java, sometimes Adobe Flash, sometimes Macromedia Shockwave. No one knew what, if any, of these technologies would become the one that would become dominant, it was all up for grabs.
Before folks worried about cyberstalking (stalking but with bits). Hackers stealing your money. Identity thieves. Surveillance. Naughty bits. Being caught seeing naughty bits. Privacy to chat with friends without conversations being public. Disinformation. Advertising. Internet/social addiction. Cyberwarfare. Election interference. Ransomware. I experience today's #web through insecurity and anxiety and ad overload. I miss the awkward relatively quiet net of olde.
I've just started using limitless.ai. I find the experience pretty set-and-forget and I love it. For my meetings, I can focus on the person, not worrying about note taking. Better yet, in addition to the transcript are notes and a summary. Still testing it out but interesting.
Better yet, it's web based! So I can use it from nearly any device. This means so much to me. Ultimately, I'd prefer this tech to be local, but unlike others, I'm not knee jerk against cloud services. #UX#LLM#Web
"While more of the #web is becoming accessible to people with low-end connections, more of the web is becoming inaccessible to people with low-end devices even if they have high-end connections."
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