2025-12-01 15:07:31
Only 20 so far (because I often discover more later):
“Web Design / Dev Advent Calendars for 2025”
https://adrianroselli.com/2025/12/web-design-dev-advent-calendars-for-2025.html
Only 20 so far (because I often discover more later):
“Web Design / Dev Advent Calendars for 2025”
https://adrianroselli.com/2025/12/web-design-dev-advent-calendars-for-2025.html
berkstan_web: Webgraph (Berkeley-Stanford)
The web graph of Berkeley and Stanford Universities (berkeley.edu and stanford.edu), as collected in 2002. Nodes represent pages and directed edges represent hyperlinks between them.
This network has 685231 nodes and 7600595 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted
https://
Metrics company, Clarivate, which runs Web of Science, is involved in very dubious awards in Iraq. They corrupt science.
https://retractionwatch.com/2025/10/31/exclusive-clarivate-web-of-science-involved-dubious-awards-iraq/…
👆🏿 Forensic linguistics: How dark web criminals give themselves away with their language
https://theconversation.com/forensic-linguistics-how-dark-web-criminals-give-themselves-away-with-their-language-267765<…
AWS and Google Cloud announce a jointly built multicloud networking solution and a new open interoperability spec; AWS plans a rollout with Azure later in 2026 (Ryan Christoffel/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2025/12/01/amazon-googles-new-interco…
.co TLD registry web sites returning 503s at the moment. They apparently;y had some name registration service outage a couple of days ago, possibly related?
https://web.archive.org/web/20251102204006/https://www.cointernet.com.co/
Awareness für Web-Security — Die OWASP Top Ten 2025
Der erste Release Candidate der neuen @… Top Ten enthüllt die größten Sicherheitsrisiken in der Webentwicklung - von Konfiguration bis Software Supply Chain.
🔐
WARP -- Web-Augmented Real-time Program Repairer: A Real-Time Compilation Error Resolution using LLMs and Web-Augmented Synthesis
Anderson de Lima Luiz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25192
Etwas mehr der heute besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Web-Tipps: Raumgestaltung für jedermann
https://www.…
Zo af en toe is her goed om de brief van Lamyae Aharouay uit 2011 te herlezen en na te gaan hoe ver we inmiddels zijn.
Ik voel me bedrogen door mijn eigen land - Opinie - Voor nieuws, achtergronden en columns
https://web.archive.org/web/…
“A threat model for accessibility on the web”
https://alice.boxhall.au/articles/a-threat-model-for-accessibility-on-the-web/
A deep, well-researched & cited piece from @…
#DDA übernimmt offizielle deutsche Namen der #Vögel. https://www.dda-web.de/aktuelles/meldungen…
Must-read, the next terrorist attack in the USA, and what comes after.
https://open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p/the-next-terrorist-attack-26b?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
@… laufen eure Server mit Ökostrom?
https://www.thegreenwebfoundation.org/tools/green-web-dataset/get-verified/
Primer to get you started with Optimization and Mathematical Programming in R #rstats
Wikipedia has •numerous• problems, but it belongs in education.
And right now, per the McSweeney’s OP, it’s a lifeboat of humanity in a sea of slop.
For reference, snapshots of the two articles concerned at the time of this writing:
https://web.archive.org/web/20250923124231/https://www.britannica.com/event/Louisiana-Purchase
https://web.archive.org/web/20250917014942/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana_Purchase
/end
Look at all these cool Muni routes that were eliminated in 2009 budget cuts and didn't come back 😭 Potrero Hill used to have *three* north-south bus routes where now it has one. The 53 Southern Heights was lost in 2009, the 10 Townsend in 2020, and only the 19 Polk is left.
https://
2026 Web Engines Hackfest
https://webengineshackfest.org/
google_web: Old Google web graph (2002)
A web graph representing a crawl of a portion of the general WWW, from a 2002 Google Programming contest.
This network has 916428 nodes and 5105039 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/google_web
Gelukkig zijn er nog andere zoekmachines die wel gewoon werken...
does trump show signs of dementia?
https://www.qwant.com/?q=does trump show signs of dementia&client=brz-brave&t=web&suggestOpen=1
Brave says it has surpassed 100M monthly active users across desktop and mobile worldwide, with 42M DAUs, and Brave Search handles 1.6B queries each month (Paul Thurrott/Thurrott)
https://www.thurrott.com/cloud/web-browsers/327735/brave-now-has-over-…
I wish the Milwaukee Recreation web site was easier to use / better designed but then I guess I wish for a lot of things...
Like, also it's amazing that 30 years into the World Wide Web thing there are so many terrible and crappy and difficult to use web sites.
https://milwaukeerecreation.net/
Observation of undepleted phosphine in the atmosphere of a low-temperature brown dwarf: #phosphine in a #BrownDwarf suggests it may be too soon to use the molecule as a sign of #AlienLife: https://cen.acs.org/physical-chemistry/astrochemistry/Phosphine-found-brown-dwarfs-atmosphere/103/web/2025/10 / Phosphine, Evidence, and an Exercise in Scientific Restraint: https://www.seti.org/news/wolf-1130c-phosphine-evidence-and-an-exercise-in-scientific-restraint/
1/N Juurikaan ei ole näkynyt iloisia viestejä siitä, miten WCAG 2.2. on nyt ISO-standardi "ISO/IEC 40500:2025 - Information technology — W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2." https://www.iso.org/standard/91029.html - saatavana peräti ilmaiseksi! (Miten nyt käy ISO:n talouden?)…
TIL my preferred Browser @… actually supports JPEG-XL – and better than Safari, because it animates.
Shame that Firefox defaults to nope & Google/Chrome does evil…
https://caniuse.com/jpegxl
"Wissenschaftliche Datenbanken im Vergleich – #WebofScience, #Scopus, #Dimensions" @…
Weasel words from Colesworth. Food security is more important than their profits. # FoodSecurity
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-01/federal-government-…
<post link to news article on Facebook group>
:deadpixel_red: `In response to Canadian government legislation, news content can’t be shared.`
<saves page with SingleFile: https://www.getsinglefile.com>
<uploads to static web server
Characterizing Event-themed Malicious Web Campaigns: A Case Study on War-themed Websites
Maraz Mia, Mir Mehedi A. Pritom, Tariqul Islam, Shouhuai Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25410
TIL about Solid, Tim Berners-Lee's proposed decentralised web data project.
Open, decentralised, in the process of W3C standardisation, and commercially backed by his startup supporting it, Inrupt.
https://solidproject.org/
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So this is what one possible database migration scenario looks like in Kitten when you’re storing JavaScript objects (instances of JavaScript classes) in your database.
(In this case, I’m moving a VerifiedAccounts collection comprising VerifiedAccount instances to an Accounts collection comprising Account instances, which introduces an inVerified boolean to the model.)
See the Database App Modules Kitten tutorial for more:
WARBERT: A Hierarchical BERT-based Model for Web API Recommendation
Zishuo Xu, Yuhong Gu, Dezhong Yao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.23175 https://arxiv.org/pd…
"Why I gave the world wide web away for free" artículo escrito por Tim Berners-Lee https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/sep/28/why-i-gave-the-world-wide-web-away-for-free
Somewhere between my original vision for web 1.0 and the rise of social media as part of web 2.0,
we took the wrong path.
We’re now at a new crossroads,
one where we must decide if AI will be used for the betterment or to the detriment of society.
How can we learn from the mistakes of the past?
First of all, we must ensure policymakers do not end up playing the same decade-long game of catchup they have done over social media.
The time to decide the go…
Automatically Generating Web Applications from Requirements Via Multi-Agent Test-Driven Development
Yuxuan Wan, Tingshuo Liang, Jiakai Xu, Jingyu Xiao, Yintong Huo, Michael R. Lyu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25297
trec_web: TREC WT10g (2003)
A web graph network originally constructed in 2003 as a testbed for information-retrieval techniques, including web search engines. Distributed by University of Glasgow.
This network has 1601787 nodes and 8063026 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net…
✍️ New post: Age Quod Agis
#blogtober
https://matthiasott.com/notes/age-quod-agis
Benchmarking MLLM-based Web Understanding: Reasoning, Robustness and Safety
Junliang Liu, Jingyu Xiao, Wenxin Tang, Wenxuan Wang, Zhixian Wang, Minrui Zhang, Shuanghe Yu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21782
Never thought about this. Use the good ol' image maps to provide alt text for possibly more complicated images https://www.w3.org/WAI/tutorials/images/imagemap/
The `href` attribute for `<area>` may be omitted too
is there really no low-level mechanism to intercept boolean primitive coercion in JavaScript?
why can’t I extend `Boolean` to make `new MyBoolean(false)` be `falsy`? (I understand why it isn’t, but I want to make it so)
> Note: Unlike other type conversions like string coercion or number coercion, boolean coercion does not attempt to convert objects to primitives by calling user methods.
i am unironically more likely to use a site that looks like this site did in 2023: http://web.archive.org/web/20230320011714/https://control.tierra.net/
than a site that looks like it does now:
i am unironically more likely to use a site that looks like this site did in 2023: http://web.archive.org/web/20230320011714/https://control.tierra.net/
than a site that looks like it does now:
"In the wealthiest country on Earth, it’s normal for people who are diagnosed with cancer to set up a web page to beg their friends and family for money. It’s normal for those people to go bankrupt. Getting sick is the most normal reason to go bankrupt...
At a time when billionaires compete to launch rockets into space, it’s normal—completely normal—for construction workers to die of heat and thirst"
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/02/uk/nursery-hackers-delete-data-intl-gbr
Nursery hackers delete children’s data following backlash, UK media reports
Looks like the "Six Degrees of Kevin Fox" website no longer exists, and the Wayback Machine doesn't have the underlying data. https://web.archive.org/web/20070629173548/https://www.aquezada.com/kevinfox/
Excited to see the rewrite of the @… backend now in public beta! If you use Google Scholar, Scopus, of Web of Science you should really checkout this open (source & data) alternative.
https://blog.openalex.org/openalex-rewrite-enters-beta-🎉/
COI: I volunteer on the board of OpenAlex because they build awesome things
Geography of Chinese Workers Building
the Transcontinental Railroad
https://web.stanford.edu/group/chineserailroad/cgi-bin/website/virtual/
Impact of Cosmic Filaments on Galaxy Morphological Evolution and Predictions of Early Cosmic Web Structure for Roman
Farhanul Hasan, Haowen Zhang, Viraj Pandya, Marc Rafelski, Joseph N. Burchett, Douglas Hellinger, Kalina V. Nedkova, Ilias Goovaerts, Nir Mandelker, Daisuke Nagai, Grecco A. Oyarz\'un, Joel R. Primack, Joanna Woo
https://
The #SeMatS2025 workshop has started this afternoon with a quick introduction by @… with 5 paper presentations and 2 keynotes. There is also a special issue on Semantic Materials Science coming up with the Semantic Web Journal. Stay tuned for further announcements!
On the shape of pancakes: catastrophe theory and Gaussian statistics in 2D
Abineet Parichha, Stephane Colombi, Shohei Saga, Atsushi Taruya
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25608 https…
"Dr. Charles Misner, who passed away in 2023 at the age of 91, was a professor of physics at the University of Maryland from 1963 to 2000, and a renowned expert in General Relativity. He was the recipient of the Albert Einstein medal in 2015, and was the co-author of “Gravitation”, one of the best-selling books in the subject of General Relativity, featuring none other than Kip Thorne on the cover."
The longest and shortest days mark Volunteer Responsibility Amnesty Day
https://web.archive.org/web/20250330163310/https://www.volunteeramnestyday.net/
(ironically, looks like the volunteer running the site ran out of energy)
T…
Me ha saltado una actualización de #novalauncher cuando se suponía que el proyecto estaba ya abandonado, según comentó su desarrollador a principios de septiembre. Me he perdido algo? En la web oficial no sale nada.
HTML Structure Exploration in 3D Software Cities
Malte Hansen, David Moreno-Lumbreras, Wilhelm Hasselbring
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00004 https://arxiv.o…
Having a clear conscience beats having inconveniences (like switching a web development framework) every time
The generosity of these people is overwhelming. 🥲
https://computer-animal-shelter.web.cern.ch/index.shtml
plant_pol_kato: Kato plant-pollinator web
A bipartite network of plants and pollinators from Kyoto University Forest of Ashu, Japan, from 1984 to 1987. Edge weights represent frequency of interactions.
This network has 772 nodes and 1206 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Weighted
https://networks.skewed.d…
Interesting graph from @….
There was a •fascinating• 99pi about the push to create an official Category 6 — and the surprisingly compelling arguments against doing that (more fully developed in the story audio than in the web text summary):
https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/category-6/
One thing that’s a clear point of consensus in that debate is that the existing Saffir-Simpson hurricane scale isn’t up to the task of describing what we face now. https://fediscience.org/@rahmstorf/115481161250561175
messal_shale: Messel Shale food web (2014)
A network of feeling links among taxa based on the 48 million years old uppermost early Eocene Messel Shale. Edge property 'certainty' denotes the certainty of the edge. Metadata include evidence, habitat, and trophic roles. The edge direction goes from consumer to resource.
This network has 700 nodes and 6444 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food Web, Uncertain, Weighted, Metadata
Someone kindly reached out to ask if I would consider speaking about Gaza Verified (https://gaza-verified.org/) at the Social Web Devroom being organised by the Social Web Foundation at FOSDEM.
My answer is no.
And I feel it’s important for those of us who care about such things to understand why:
Amazon Web Services: Globale Störung
Diverse Internet-Dienste beklagen derzeit Ausfälle. Das geht auf Störungen der Cloud-Dienste Amazon Web Services zurück.
https://www.heise.de/news/Amazon-Web-Servi
AWS launches DevOps Agent, an AI-enabled tool designed to help clients quickly identify root causes of outages and implement fixes, available in preview (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/02/amazon-launches-cloud-ai-tool…
foodweb_baywet: Florida cypress wetlands food web (1998)
Networks of carbon exchanges among species in the cypress wetlands of South Florida. One network covers the wet and the other the dry season. Each node represents a taxon (similar to a species), and a directed edge indicates that one taxon uses another as food.
This network has 128 nodes and 2106 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Weighted
It's not Easy: Applying Supervised Machine Learning to Detect Malicious Extensions in the Chrome Web Store
Ben Rosenzweig, Valentino Dalla Valle, Giovanni Apruzzese, Aurore Fass
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21590
La pšguina web de la Casa Blanca tiene una sección tróspida hasta la nausea.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-white-house/the-white-house/
En la sección Major Events viene información sobre la construcción de las diferentes fases del edificio, vas pasan…
»Keyhive: Local-first access control«
I will have to read this online article carefully this weekend. Do any of you have any other tips to inform me about Local-First web?
📓 https://www.inkandswitch.com/keyhive/notebook/
A pictures says more than 1000 words. How much more can an audio representation of your data tell you? #rstats
trec_web: TREC WT10g (2003)
A web graph network originally constructed in 2003 as a testbed for information-retrieval techniques, including web search engines. Distributed by University of Glasgow.
This network has 1601787 nodes and 8063026 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net…
I love that Nic Chan explicitly excludes Substack newsletters from her list:
https://www.nicchan.me/blog/newsletters-that-regularly-hit-my-inbox/
Same reason why I generally feel web folks on Twitter aren’t worth my time. And if they also claim to care ab…
Amazon Web Services: AWS wieder im Normalbetrieb
Am Montag legte ein Fehler Amazons Web Services und damit diverse Internet-Dienste lahm. Amazon erklärt die Probleme.
https://www.heise.de/news/…
»Decreasing Certificate Lifetimes to 45 Days:
Let’s Encrypt will be reducing the validity period of the certificates we issue. We currently issue certificates valid for 90 days, which will be cut in half to 45 days by 2028.«
The @… halving the validity of the keys makes the web more secure (not more anonymous).
🔐
google_web: Old Google web graph (2002)
A web graph representing a crawl of a portion of the general WWW, from a 2002 Google Programming contest.
This network has 916428 nodes and 5105039 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/google_web
google_web: Old Google web graph (2002)
A web graph representing a crawl of a portion of the general WWW, from a 2002 Google Programming contest.
This network has 916428 nodes and 5105039 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/google_web<…
Claude Code: Neue Web-Version bringt mehrere Vorteile für Entwickler mit sich
Anthropic bietet Claude Code ab sofort eine neue Plattform. Künftig ist die Coding-KI auch im Web nutzbar.
https://…
stanford_web: Webgraph (Stanford)
The web graph of Stanford University (stanford.edu), as collected in 2002. Nodes represent pages and directed edges represent hyperlinks between them.
This network has 281904 nodes and 2312497 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/s…
webkb: WebKB graphs (1998)
Web graphs crawled from four Computer Science departments in 1998, with each page manually classified into one of 7 categories: course, department, faculty, project, staff, student, or other. All graphs included in a single .zip; also included are 'co-citation' graphs, which links i and j if they both point to some k. Edge weights count the number of links from i to j.
This network has 433 nodes and 1941 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web gra…
nematode_mammal: Global nematode–mammal interactions (2018)
A global interaction web of interactions between nematodes and their host mammal species, extracted from the helminthR package and dataset. Nodes are annotated with species-level information.
This network has 30516 nodes and 146683 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Unweighted, Metadata
Störungen von GMX und WEB.DE
Seit Mittwochmorgen gibt es Störungen bei den E-Mail-Diensten von GMX und WEB.DE. Entspannung deutet sich bereits an. Die Ursachen sind unklar.
https://www.heise.de/news/Stoerungen-v…
google_web: Old Google web graph (2002)
A web graph representing a crawl of a portion of the general WWW, from a 2002 Google Programming contest.
This network has 916428 nodes and 5105039 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/google_web<…
stanford_web: Webgraph (Stanford)
The web graph of Stanford University (stanford.edu), as collected in 2002. Nodes represent pages and directed edges represent hyperlinks between them.
This network has 281904 nodes and 2312497 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/s…
trec_web: TREC WT10g (2003)
A web graph network originally constructed in 2003 as a testbed for information-retrieval techniques, including web search engines. Distributed by University of Glasgow.
This network has 1601787 nodes and 8063026 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net…
plant_pol_kato: Kato plant-pollinator web
A bipartite network of plants and pollinators from Kyoto University Forest of Ashu, Japan, from 1984 to 1987. Edge weights represent frequency of interactions.
This network has 772 nodes and 1206 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Weighted
https://networks.skewed.d…
foodweb_baywet: Florida cypress wetlands food web (1998)
Networks of carbon exchanges among species in the cypress wetlands of South Florida. One network covers the wet and the other the dry season. Each node represents a taxon (similar to a species), and a directed edge indicates that one taxon uses another as food.
This network has 128 nodes and 2106 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Weighted
foodweb_baywet: Florida cypress wetlands food web (1998)
Networks of carbon exchanges among species in the cypress wetlands of South Florida. One network covers the wet and the other the dry season. Each node represents a taxon (similar to a species), and a directed edge indicates that one taxon uses another as food.
This network has 128 nodes and 2106 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Weighted