Reblog via Jeremy Keith
Happy 25th anniversy to A Dao Of Web Design by John Allsopp:
https://alistapart.com/article/dao/
Still relevant after all these years!
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Happy 25th anniversary to A Dao of Web Design
American Ephemera Archive online
Reblog via John Overholt
The American Antiquarian Society has made scans of 40,000 pieces of American ephemera, previously only available through a subscription database, accessible for free through its catalog. https://pastispresent.org/2025/good-sources/ephemera-explored-over-40000-new-images-give-glimpses-into-19th-century-american-life/
The interface leaves something to be desired – you can’t just flip through galleries, you have to find an item and request the scanned image – but there’s great stuff in here
Thirty Years of the W3C:
Reblog via Ben Francis
Celebrating thirty years of the @w3c 💙 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TfUBuIZkmQ
Reblog of Alex Kirk: Help Make (the) Friends (Plugin) Pretty
Reblog via Alex Kirk While I keep maintaining my Friends plugin for WordPress, there is an area where it could do better because I am not great at it: the visual appeal. From pretty early on, I designed the plugin in a way that it Over time, some of this has changed or improved. For … Read more
Social Web Federation launch:
Reblog via World Wide Web Consortium
We are happy to share that today the Social Web Foundation launched with a mission to help the fediverse to grow healthy, multi-polar, and financially viable.
We are looking forward to continuing to support the work that @evan @tomcoates @mallory are planning in the new non-profit foundation for expanding and improving ActivityPub and the fediverse. We are delighted that to the Foundation will be becoming a W3C Member.
Follow WordPress blogs on Flipboard
Reblog via Matthias Pfefferle
in case you haven’t heard, it’s possible to follow #WordPress blogs on #Flipboard via ActivityPub. so all interactions on flipboard flow back to the blog! happy federated commenting, liking and sharing!
I wasn’t familiar with Flipboard – see https://flipboard.social/explore – if you’re a user there you can follow this blog or goatless in Flipboard directly
Quis calculis numerat?
Reblog via Eaton
It’s darkly hilarious that the cutting edge of productized LLMs consists of “counting the number of letters in a word by simulating all recorded human communication and recursively search for discussions about counting”
Quis calculis numerat?
Fediverse Discovery Providers:
Reblog via Mastodon Engineering We are excited to launch a new project that will help small and medium-sized fediverse servers and their users have better access to search and discovery through the use of pluggable Fediverse Discovery Providers, supported by a grant from @EC_NGI. See our new dedicated website for details: https://fediscovery.org/