InautiloMay 14

#Development #Analyses
Browsers treat big sites differently · When a site is big enough, the rules quietly change https://ilo.im/16cx88

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#Quirks #Safari #Firefox #Chrome #Browsers #WebStandards #BigWeb #SmallWeb #WebDev #Frontend

Browsers Treat Big Sites Differently

Safari and Firefox change how big sites render based on the domain. TikTok, Netflix, Instagram… even SeatGuru. Chrome doesn’t. Why is that?

Den Odell
InautiloMay 9

#Business #Mindsets
The boring internet · “The internet you grew up on is not gone.” https://ilo.im/16cqvt

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#Internet #Web #History #WebTechnology #AI #Dezentralization #Communities #IndieWeb #SmallWeb #BigWeb

The Boring Internet

The internet you grew up on isn't dying. A commercial veneer glued on top of it is. A visual essay about what actually persists.

Terry Godier
InautiloMar 28

#Business #Outlooks
Endgame for the Open Web · A call to reclaim web sovereignty https://ilo.im/16bqrz

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#Threats #AI #Web #Community #OpenWeb #BigWeb #SmallWeb #IndieWeb #Websites #Content

Endgame for the Open Web

A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

Anil Dash
Show threadAral BalkanJan 2

“But now things suck even for me and I’m sad!”

Oh, the gravy train ran out of gravy, did it? Something about leopards eating people’s faces?

Here, have a very fucking tiny violin.

🎻

#BigTech #BigWeb #SiliconValley #SiliconRoundabout #SurveillanceCapitalism #PeopleFarming #fascism

Aral BalkanJan 2

“How could we have known?!”

Maybe if you’d listened to those of us warning you – often times your own damn friends – instead of siding with the corporations that paid your salaries/consulting fees/sponsored your conferences/invited you to parties and bought you free booze…

🤷‍♂️

#BigTech #BigWeb #SiliconValley #SiliconRoundabout #SurveillanceCapitalism #PeopleFarming #fascism

Show threadwitchescauldronNov 22

@oblomov @howard

So we can see a path where the web of documents (#4opens #smallweb) is pushed away from the web of apps (#dotcons #bigweb).

This is a functional path for sustaining the alt tech path as the #smallweb is much more #KISS thus #DIY than the mess we have in the "bigweb". We likely need a better framing than this...

InautiloOct 5, 2025

“I gave the world wide web away for free because I thought that it would only work if it worked for everyone. Today, I believe that to be truer than ever.” — Tim Berners Lee

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#Business #Web #Sharing #OpenWeb #IndieWeb #SmallWeb #BigWeb #Centralization #SocialMedia #AI #Quotes

InautiloOct 4, 2025

#Business #Analyses
Does Google want to kill the web? · “Google says market forces, I say their misuse of AI.” https://ilo.im/167abv

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#Google #SearchEngine #AI #Publishing #Content #Website #BigWeb #SmallWeb #IndieWeb #OpenWeb

Does Google want to kill the web?

The closer you look, the more this seems like a reasonable question.

Computerworld
InautiloSep 3, 2025

#Development #Analyses
Passkeys and modern authentication · Let’s consider whether this is really what we want https://ilo.im/166klm

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#Business #BigWeb #Gatekeepers #Authentication #Passkeys #PasswordManagers #WebDev #Frontend #Backend #Pitfalls

Passkeys and Modern Authentication

Some thoughts in support of simple solutions.

Armin Ronacher's Thoughts and Writings
InautiloAug 31, 2025

#Business #Comics
Web’s end · In the beginning, there were websites https://ilo.im/166g2f

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#Web #OpenWeb #IndieWeb #SmallWeb #BigWeb #SearchEngine #SocialMedia #AI #Websites #Blogs

Web's End

The internet has increasingly become a series of oligarchic obstacles to work around, in contrast to the humanistic ideals it was founded upon. To support this work and receive my weekly newsletter...

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