Links — #web

• Dropping Cloudflare for Bunny.net (Apr 26, 2026)
  Migrating a personal blog away from Cloudflare to a smaller, less politicised CDN.
  #essays #ops #web
• Email could have been X.400 times better (Apr 26, 2026)
  A history of X.400 — the formally-specified email standard SMTP defeated — and what we lost by shipping the simpler thing.
  #essays #systems #web
• Flickr: the first and last great photo platform (Apr 26, 2026)
  How Flickr quietly became the only general-purpose photo community that survived web 2.0, and why nothing has replaced it.
  #essays #web
• A stable Firefox identifier linking your private Tor identities (Apr 26, 2026)
  Fingerprint.com found that Firefox and Tor's IndexedDB ordering is stable across private windows — enough to fingerprint a user across origins.
  #privacy #security #web
• Zero-copy GPU inference from WebAssembly on Apple Silicon (Apr 26, 2026)
  Sharing a WebAssembly module's linear memory directly with the Apple Silicon GPU — no copies, no serialisation, real measurements for stateful inference.
  #ai #compsci #web
• s@ Protocol (Apr 4, 2026)
  Decentralised social networking over static sites — no server needed.
  #web
• Picol (Mar 8, 2026)
  Antirez's Tcl interpreter in 500 lines of C. Elegant, educational, minimal.
  #web #tools
• voxtral.c (Mar 8, 2026)
  Pure C, CPU-only inference of Mistral's Voxtral speech-to-text model. No GPU required.
  #web #tools
• Gitas (Mar 8, 2026)
  Quick Git account switching for people managing multiple identities.
  #web #tools
• Ghidra (Mar 8, 2026)
  The NSA's open-source software reverse engineering framework.
  #web #tools
• vim-pencil (Mar 8, 2026)
  Rethinking Vim as a tool for writing prose, not just code.
  #web #tools
• mdvi (Mar 8, 2026)
  Terminal Markdown viewer with vi keybindings.
  #web #tools
• Ki Editor (Mar 8, 2026)
  A text editor that operates directly on the abstract syntax tree.
  #web #tools
• LibreSprite (Mar 8, 2026)
  Open-source pixel art editor, forked from Aseprite before it went proprietary.
  #web #tools
• Oat (Mar 8, 2026)
  Ultra-lightweight, zero-dependency UI library built on semantic HTML.
  #web #tools
• Goodbye innerHTML, Hello setHTML (Mar 1, 2026)
  Mozilla introduces the Sanitizer API and setHTML for safer DOM manipulation in Firefox 148.
  #web #security
• Ladybird adopts Rust, with help from AI (Mar 1, 2026)
  The Ladybird browser project adopts Rust for new components, using AI to assist migration.
  #web #systems
• Please, please, please stop using passkeys for encrypting user data (Mar 1, 2026)
  Why using passkeys with PRF for encryption is dangerous and premature.
  #security #web
• @celine/bibhtml (Feb 7, 2026)
  LaTeX-style citations as Web Components. BibTeX, DOI, and Wikidata references in plain HTML.
  #web
• Hono (Feb 7, 2026)
  Small, ultrafast web framework built on Web Standards. Runs on Cloudflare Workers, Deno, Bun, Node, and more.
  #web #tools
• Mwmbl (Feb 7, 2026)
  Free, open-source, non-profit search engine. Community-curated results — users can edit what comes up.
  #web #community
• Protomaps (Feb 7, 2026)
  Open source maps as a single static file. No tile server — just cloud storage and HTTP range requests.
  #tools #web
• A List of Text-Only & Minimalist News Sites (Feb 7, 2026)
  Curated list of text-only and minimalist news sites. The bedrock web is alive.
  #news #web
• What came first: the CNAME or the A record? (Jan 19, 2026)
  A Cloudflare change accidentally altered CNAME record order in DNS responses, breaking resolution — and exposing ambiguities in the DNS RFCs.
  #dns #web
• Most RESTful APIs aren't really RESTful (Jul 9, 2025)
  What Roy Fielding's dissertation actually says about REST, and how far most APIs stray from it.
  #api #web

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