2026-07-19 17:52:39
The small, real, original web https://spacetimetech.wordpress.com/2026/07/19/the-small-real-original-web
Got my post on the small web done- it links to sites by @…
The small, real, original web https://spacetimetech.wordpress.com/2026/07/19/the-small-real-original-web
Got my post on the small web done- it links to sites by @…
Billionenbeträge berechnet: Abrechnungsfehler bei Amazon Web Services
Kunden wurden plötzlich astronomische Kosten für Amazon Web Services angezeigt. Dahinter steckt ein technischer Fehler.
https://www…
Google’s conference-driven development model rears its ugly head again.
These skills seem to largely lack accessibility deets:
https://developer.chrome.com/docs/modern-web-guidance?hl=en
I understand “in a few it was intentionally omitted”. To be “handled in…
Google's AI Search is endangering the open web; Cloudflare: between June 2025 and April 2026, human traffic to sites of businesses in many industries fell ~40% (Kate Conger/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/technol…
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…
@… that Google page was before my time …
<https://web.archive.org/web/20000622031920/https://google.com/bsd>
Primer to get you started with Optimization and Mathematical Programming in R #rstats
Prompt API is Baseline Widely Available: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/prompt
"Native apps are bad at rendering text" is interesting framing. Web browsers are native apps, after all, and they're great at rendering web text. Native PDF viewers are great at rendering PDF text. And native rich text editors are great at RTF text—with rulers containing tab stops, etc.
(Back in the '90s, I built parsers and renderers for all three of these: OmniWeb on AppKit, OmniPDF on AppKit, and RTF text for Java.)
The very real, hard problem is round-trippi…
I appreciate folks pinging me that my site is down.
The host took it down and, assuming I’m reading these dashboard messages correctly, it was in response to more than a million bot requests.
I have no idea when they will restore it. And I have a lot of IRL stuff this morning, so I’m just gonna leave it be.
In the meantime, the most recent Wayback archive is 18 July:
Last updated almost 20 years ago.
JBQ's spot on the Wild Wild Web
http://queru.com/
Vegetation Fire
ACTIVE

1690 MISSION SANTA YNEZ DR, SOLVANG, CA
https://web.pulsepoint.org/
A look at the nonprofit Current AI, backed by $400M in commitments from many partners including $100M from France, that's funding open, public AI infrastructure (Kate Park/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/19/nonpr…
Dos noticias importantes que muestran una tendencia preocupante. Google estš rompiendo la web en dos, haciendo una web que va a depender de Google para funcionar y en la que sólo se va a poder navegar si se es usuario de Google y otra con los outsiders, el resto.
De forma similar a como rompió Facebook al cerrar el acceso a sus pšginas a usuarios no registrados, lo que hizo que muchos comercios y colectivos se quedaran aislados de parte de su base social, pero a lo gigantesco.
P…
Congratulations to everyone working at Google to finally murder the Web forever
Look, I’m as nostalgic as any other 80s kid about Commodore but what is this recent trend about not having a web browser on phones? I mean, congrats on throwing the baby (Small Web) out with the bathwater (Big Web).
🤷♂️
foodweb_little_rock: Little Rock Lake food web (1991)
A food web among the species found in Little Rock Lake in Wisconsin. Nodes are taxa (like species), either autotrophs, herbivores, carnivores or decomposers. Edges represent feeding (nutrient transfer) of one taxon on another.
This network has 183 nodes and 2494 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Unweighted
Quick strategy discussion, for those who understand Google indexing and SEO:
If I want to yank a web site out of Google’s now-fully-extractive search, should I (1) disallow googlebot in robots.txt or (2) add `<meta name="googlebot" content="noindex">` to all the page headers?
The goal here is not just to remove my contributions to the commons from Google’s results, but to •make Google aware• that sites are pulling consent. What will best do that?
2/2
✍️ New post: Ad Infinitum
Google announced the biggest change to Search in 25 years at #GoogleIO. But where are the ads…? 🤔
https://matthiasott.com/notes/ad-infinitum
If you saw an interesting new app, application, or web site, but then found out the author used AI to create it would you still use it?
Here’s a good example of #Collections - this group of web comics collected together by @… . The cool part is that I can then share this collection out with others, too:
David Brown leaving #AWS after 19 years. I worked with him as a customer in the Netflix days and while I was also a VP at AWS and he was the best manager they ever had. Many of the broken teams/services at AWS in the early days were fixed by him. Super nice guy in person as well. Hasn’t said where he’s going next…
"Google Search as you know it is over"
#google
Web spec folks, I'm confused by WebIDL
As a mostly JS developer I'm confused by WebIDL. It seems like WebIDL's ability to define the types of JavaScript objects is substantially more limited than TypeScript or other user-land type systems. I assume that if TS or another system were unambiguously superior, it would have already been adopted by groups in this space
What makes WebIDL preferable?
Die EU-Kommission hat vorläufige Erkenntnisse veröffentlicht, wonach Amazon Web Services und Microsoft Azure die Schwelle für eine Gatekeeper-Einstufung nach dem Digital Markets Act erfüllen. Bei einer finalen Designation drohen Interoperabilitätspflichten, Lock-in-Verbote und Bußgelder bis zu 10 Prozent des globalen Umsatzes. Eine endgültige Entscheidung wird für Ende 2026 erwartet. #heise
Mastodon adds email newsletters, letting writers send their posts directly to subscribers' inboxes, even to readers without a Mastodon account (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/17/mastodon-looks-to-newsletters-to-h…
SECRET URBAN EXPLORATION NINJA MAFIA
https://web.archive.org/web/20070813071056/http://www.secreturbanexplorationninjamafia.com/main.html
Spaß mit Ministerien.
TIL: Es gab mal ein TMLFUN, Thüringer Ministerium für Landwirtschaft, Forsten, Umwelt und Naturschutz.
Wie lustig es dort war, ist nicht überliefert. 😉
https://web.archive.org/web/20091115125444/http://www.thueringen.de/de/tmlfu…
Huh, there's a deleted article claiming that Amazon has been firing people with AI:
https://web.archive.org/web/20251201000000*/https://www.yeetmagazine.com/at-amazon-employees-are-now-fired-by-artificial-intelligence-the-future-of-work-or-just-cold-tech/
I probably spent way too much time researching CMS/blog for my #astrojs website hosted on Cloudflare
There are dozens of threads on Reddit, lots of options.
Result of my research and what I implemented:
Sanity: https://www.sanity.io
Do you sometime received pertinent results from Google search?
Don't worry. It's soon over!
It will soon be 100% pure slop!
https://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/article/google-is-making-its-biggest-change-to-the-search-bar-in-yea…
Google has re-engineered its search engine to keep users inside its own ecosystem with AI-powered interactive experiences. If your task is to find and critically assess information on the open web, you're fresh out of luck.
https://www.
RE: https://dair-community.social/@emilymbender/116604743635554102
There is more in this.
Reducing the importance of links means reducing links per se. And this means the only way to navigate the web is through AI-powered search engines, i.…
@… Can you recommend any particular reading on Software Independence? (I’m asking not because I’m unable to search the web myself, but because you obviously have domain expertise).
Google Search is over – at least as we know it. Instead of links, we’ll see AI agents that generate answers directly. Whilst this sounds convenient, there’s a catch: the sources are obscured and publishers continue to lose search engine traffic. Google won’t compensate for this – its business model is to exploit content for its own gain.
Anyone publishing independently has long needed a model beyond Google: newsletters, donations, paid content.
kaomoji.you/en/ stopped working
web is officially dead _(:c」∠)_
I recently acquired an old Dell server for my homelab setup. I haven't touched real enterprise hardware in quite a long time. It's been a good [re]learning experience.
Let me just say this, though: putting a second computer inside the server for management (IPMI/iDRAC in this case) is genius, and it's a REALLY nice safety net.
(Short version for the unaware: independent console access and server configuration in a web UI on its own ethernet port. e.g. can reboot serve…
@… thanks for publicly requesting feedback.
Widths and padding: the table of unsupported releases was slightly easier to read before the refresh.
Before, after, and now:
<h…
As of right now, about two thirds of Iowa is in either a severe thunderstorm watch/warning or a tornado watch. The rest is in a “hazardous weather outlook”. Check your local weather and have a source of severe weather alerts this evening.
https://forecast.weather.gov/wwamap/ww
Firefox has added WebSerial support in 151. This is useful for cloudless communication with #embedded devices.
Rather than using the polyfill (https://github.com/kuba2k2/firefox-webserial) …
Amazed how many accessibility practitioners I talk to, in addition to old-school web devs, look at every Google I/O as the coming storm.
Like, what new torrent of destruction will Google, in its utter hubris, pour on us and the open web.
And then they have to go defend their position to their bosses / clients. How shitty.
@…
The Classic migration was super smooth. And thanks for the extra month 🙌
Also, I love https://web.parcelapp.net/
Ich weiss, ich weiss, es ist nicht ganz so simpel, aber: könnte das EFD bitte aufhören, von „wir müssen sparen“ zu reden?
Entire stock of Swiss bond yields turns negative https://web.archive.org/web/201607100027…
Not-so-secretly hoping that the complete and utter bullshit that Google (and so many other tech companies) are pulling right now will lead to a second golden age of the Web.
is there a razzie award for web sites
@… Just saw this, and had no idea this exists: ESP32 Bit Pirate Inspired by the Bus Pirate of old, a modern version: https://l…
In Bonn kann man jetzt ein Praktikum bei den Taliban machen. Keine Pointe.
https://web.archive.org/web/20260506113007/https://afghanmissionbonn.de/praktikum.php?lang=de
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…
A very important post on what is happening to make the web harder to use.
https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/116550899908879585
Patrons of Amazon Web Services have been landed with panic-inducing monthly bills running as high as
$1.5 trillion for subscriptions that usually cost less than the price of a cup of coffee.
From Bangalore to Bolsover, the bills have been causing alarm
after a computer glitch resulted in the astronomical invoices being dispatched around the world by Jeff Bezos’s company,
which provides data and cloud services to millions of customers, from students and small charities…
"For decades, we have watched technologists claim that algorithms can replace editors, platforms replace communities, markets replace politics, and code can replace governance. The result has been a mess. Now the same pattern is repeating with AI."
#GenAI
AI didn’t break the web. The dotcons did – AI just turned up the volume –
Caught nothing starting web browser (3) #cryptic #crossword
So Google is basically killing their main product? The ingenious money machine that made them billions? Or am I missing something … I mean: where are the ads? 🤔
https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/19/google-search-as-you-know-it-is-over/
Web spec folks, I'm confused by WebIDL
As a mostly JS developer I'm confused by WebIDL. It seems like WebIDL's ability to define the types of JavaScript objects is substantially more limited than TypeScript or other user-land type systems. I assume that if TS or another system were unambiguously superior, it would have already been adopted by groups in this space
What makes WebIDL preferable?
Copies of instances of nested structs be like aaah to read in program analysis... lol
Someday I'll draw this giant map and weave a huge web.
🗺️ 📍 🧶 🕸️
A pictures says more than 1000 words. How much more can an audio representation of your data tell you? #rstats
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…
Amazon apologizes after some AWS users received bills as high as $1.5T due to "an issue with unit pricing within the estimated billing computation subsystem" (Robert Booth/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/202
@… look, this may be a controversial take but I will go on the record as saying that we should not deliver web sites via missile
➡️ Social Web Foundation - tags.pub
https://socialwebfoundation.org/2026/03/17/introducing-tags-pub/
(This is a link from my bookmark collection. A new link gets posted each night.)
Abre pšgina para leer sobre copyleft.
Lee "Qué son los derechos de autor de izquierda".
Cierra la pšgina web.
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
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A Bellingcat investigation last year found more than 1,000 nitazenes advertisements populating online marketplaces, forums and the dark web
https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/01/20/chinese-link-to-nitazenes-targeting-europe/
🔍 Tracing — per-request & per-job waterfalls of every query, cache op & HTTP call, off by default & persisted only when slow, errored or sampled to stay cheap at scale
🐞 Unified error tracking — web, queue, command & browser exceptions fingerprinted into a grouped inbox with stacktraces, sparklines & assign/ack/mute/resolve
Mastodon adds email newsletters, letting writers send their posts directly to subscribers' inboxes, even to readers without a Mastodon account (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/17/mastodon-looks-to-newsletters-to-h…
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
"a recurring problem in technological culture is the blinded tendency to mistake technical processes for social processes. If you spend enough time around code, it becomes tempting to imagine that social problems can be reduced to technical ones... This is not a new mistake"
#GenAI
AI didn’t break the web. The dotcons did – AI just turned up the volume –
Ozone: publisher ad supply in Q2 fell by 32% to 37% YoY in the US and 39% to 41% YoY in the UK, driven by AI-era zero-click search and reduced referral traffic (Jessica Davies/Digiday)
https://digiday.com/media/publisher-ad-supply-fell-b…
Long before anyone typed a query into Google,
Roger Summit built a system that let researchers search vast databases from a remote terminal in minutes.
His creation, Dialog, was the first commercial online search service,
and it laid groundwork the modern web would later inherit.
Summit has died at 95
…
Turkey approves Uber's $335M deal to buy Getir's delivery business, tied to a $500M investment pledge in Turkey; Uber is also paying $100M for a 15% Getir stake (Ana-Maria Stanciuc/The Next Web)
https://thenextweb.com/news/turkey-clears-ubers-a…
Claude Cowork kommt ins Web und aufs Smartphone
Anthropic bringt seinen KI-Agenten Claude Cowork auf Web und Smartphones und verlängert den Abo-Zugang zu Fable 5 bis zum 12. Juli.
https://www.h…
Microsoft''s "focused" inbox view is the most confusing crap ever. It keeps me from seeing the email I need to see - the one purpose that the inbox is for.
Since my hosting provider had decided to move their stuff into Microsoft's cloud thing, I started having to deal with weird shit like that.
So luckily, there is an option to turn it off:
⚡ Local & lightweight — a single #Go binary with no registry, no telemetry & fully offline-capable
🎯 Fine-grained filtering — control which skills reach which targets via .skillignore, Skill. md targets & per-target include/exclude rules
🖥️ Extra tooling — visual web dashboard via skillshare ui, local git checkpoints with skillshare commit, shell completion & GitHub Acti…
@…
"The Power to Serve" was a motto from twenty-nine years ago:
<https://web.archive.org/web/19971211225530/https://www.freebsd.o…
Updated my post “Do Not Publish Your Designs on the Web with Figma Sites…”:
https://adrianroselli.com/2025/05/do-not-publish-your-designs-on-the-web-with-figma-sites.html#Update03
Embeds a Paris Web talk by Tamara Sredoj…
foodweb_little_rock: Little Rock Lake food web (1991)
A food web among the species found in Little Rock Lake in Wisconsin. Nodes are taxa (like species), either autotrophs, herbivores, carnivores or decomposers. Edges represent feeding (nutrient transfer) of one taxon on another.
This network has 183 nodes and 2494 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Unweighted
Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Euro-Office: Erste Version des quelloffenen Web-Office ist da
Just over a week after Mosaic 1.0 was released, CERN gifted the Web to the world as open source software. As of 30 April 1993, the still relatively new Internet communications platform was suddenly free for anyone to use, with no strings attached.
https://cybercultural.com/p/1993-mosai
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 300 nodes and 1155 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web gra…
Mastodon, the open, decentralized alternative to Big Tech apps like X and Threads, is betting that email could help solve the open social web’s biggest problem:
audience growth.
With the software’s latest release, the social networking platform is introducing email newsletters,
a feature that will allow writers to send their posts directly to subscribers’ inboxes, even if those subscribers don’t have or want a Mastodon account.
The feature provides a way for creators …
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://
Sigma, which sells a cloud-native analytics platform that sits on top of data warehouses, raised an $80M Series E led by Princeville Capital at a $3B valuation (Cristian Dina/The Next Web)
https://thenextweb.com/news/sigma-computing-series-e-80-million-3-b…
foodweb_little_rock: Little Rock Lake food web (1991)
A food web among the species found in Little Rock Lake in Wisconsin. Nodes are taxa (like species), either autotrophs, herbivores, carnivores or decomposers. Edges represent feeding (nutrient transfer) of one taxon on another.
This network has 183 nodes and 2494 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Unweighted
foodweb_little_rock: Little Rock Lake food web (1991)
A food web among the species found in Little Rock Lake in Wisconsin. Nodes are taxa (like species), either autotrophs, herbivores, carnivores or decomposers. Edges represent feeding (nutrient transfer) of one taxon on another.
This network has 183 nodes and 2494 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Unweighted
fediverse: Fediverse network (2018)
An early snapshot of the federation network among web publishers using the ActivityPub protocol. Nodes are instances, and a directed edge exists if an instance follows another instance.
This network has 4860 nodes and 484164 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Information
https://ne…
fediverse: Fediverse network (2018)
An early snapshot of the federation network among web publishers using the ActivityPub protocol. Nodes are instances, and a directed edge exists if an instance follows another instance.
This network has 4860 nodes and 484164 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Information
https://ne…
fediverse: Fediverse network (2018)
An early snapshot of the federation network among web publishers using the ActivityPub protocol. Nodes are instances, and a directed edge exists if an instance follows another instance.
This network has 4860 nodes and 484164 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Information
https://ne…
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
notre_dame_web: Webgraph (Notre Dame)
The web graph of Notre Dame University (nd.edu), as collected in 1999.
This network has 325729 nodes and 1497134 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/notre_dame_web
Ridiculogram…