Mastodawn

waking up to kiki on the front page of hacker news was equal parts surprising and intimidating.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48348545

while i can't say the threads contained much enlightening discussion, i'm relieved that the nastiness that constituted earlier years of HN posting culture was minimal

#indieWeb #worldwideweb #kiki

Kiki – a tiny homepage construction kit with a small footprint | Hacker News

@reiver ⊼ (Charles)

4d ago

Why Chrome? Why???

https://developer.chrome.com/docs/web-platform/deprecating-xslt

XSLT is more powerful than CSS in many ways.

#xsl #xslt #WorldWideWeb

Removing XSLT for a more secure browser | Web Platform | Chrome for Developers

Prepare for Chrome deprecating and removing XSLT from the browser.

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Darryl Pogue 5d ago

This was definitely a productive use of my time...

#WorldWideWeb #NeXTStep

Walled Culture May 27

Why Google’s new AI-saturated search page will be a disaster

Google didn’t invent full-text search of the Internet – that honour belongs to early pioneers such as WebCrawler, Lycos and AltaVista. But for the last 25 years or so, Google has been synonymous with online searching, providing the quickest and most effective way to find things online (although its results may be getting worse.) More recently, it has been adding to its search engine more […]

#agentic #agents #ai #altavista #blackBox #chatbot #creators #dependency #google #interface #links #llms #lycos #magazines #newspapers #publishing #search #training #webcrawler #worldWideWeb https://walledculture.org/why-googles-new-ai-saturated-search-page-will-be-a-disaster/

GraeMan May 23

Started my evening looking up gardening tips. Got sidetracked and spent an hour engrossed in this article by Olia Lialina from 2020 concerning personal webpages and the ongoing history the World Wide Web: https://interfacecritique.net/book/olia-lialina-from-my-to-me/

#olialialina #indieweb #geocities #oldweb #worldwideweb #internethistory

INTERFACECRITIQUE

Hackaday [Unofficial]May 19

How Search Engines Enabled Finding Needles in a WWW-Sized Haystack

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://hackaday.com/2026/05/19/how-search-engines-enabled-finding-needles-in-a-www-sized-haystack/

13 May 19

How Search Engines Enabled Finding Needles in a WWW-Sized Haystack https://hackaday.com/2026/05/19/how-search-engines-enabled-finding-needles-in-a-www-sized-haystack/
#Featured #Interest #Internethacks #OriginalArt #Internetsearch #Searchengine #Worldwideweb

How Search Engines Enabled Finding Needles In A WWW-Sized Haystack

When the World Wide Web surged into existence during the 1990s, we were introduced to the problem of how to actually find something in this ever-ballooning construction zone that easily outpaced ev…

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