Movim provides a quick comparison between the two protocols and shows how blogs work. Wow, this makes so much more sense than ActivityPub tbh. There's also a good example of XML strength: embedding an Atom feed in XMPP messages.

There was a long write-up in this note, but then I removed it. Read the bookmarked article with an open heart.

Protect your empire from the advancing hordes!

Thoughts, tools, and libraries I use to make games

nice config

Yurt don't fit every climate.

An online ditherer, now with color picker!

Yet another article lamenting the recent so-called developments of WWW. The author contrasts the web of documents with the web of applications. Lists three strict rules for the former: GET only, no scripts, no cookies. There's no place for Mycorrhiza and Betula in their current form in this world.

I used to think that indeed web applications have to go, embracing Gemini and whatnot. But after all these years, nah. Let's keep JavaScript. The thing is, let's use it responsibly.

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Space Explorer

A *web site* search engine, instead of a web page centered one!

A source-control branching model, where developers collaborate on code in a single branch called ‘trunk’ *,
resist any pressure to create other long-lived development branches by employing documented techniques. They
therefore avoid merge hell, do not break the build, and live happily ever after.

Programming fonts are stuck in the past. Proportional typesetting is everywhere and
there is no reason why you can’t use it for code.

A fresh take on typesetting

A stack-based array programming language

Back in the salad days of the internet, I was always very curious about people who disappeared from a solid presence on the internet. Where did they go? Why did they go? What are they doing now? Do they still care about the things they wrote about? Are they still doodling, drawing, writing, taking pictures?

A static site, that claims to be a wiki. It is old and fun.

Save yourself money and a trip to the store! Print graph paper free from your computer. This site is perfect for science and math homework, craft projects and other graph paper needs.

I just rediscovered a question I wrote on Stack Exchange. I can’t remember much about the context, but the idea is to have an ordinary “web server” application accessed through http, but simply sending plain-text backwards and forwards to a command-line based client.