Zibaldone
zi‧bal‧dó‧ne • n • a book containing writings collected in a scattered fashion.
- Information Foraging: A Theory of How People Navigate on the Web — To decide whether to visit a page, people take into account how much relevant information they are likely to find on that page relative to the effort involved in extracting that info. Saved
- A Website To End All Websites — How to win the war for the soul of the internet, and build the Web We Want. Saved
- Digital Garden Terms of Service — This is my attempt to explicitly define a not-legally-binding "terms of service" for people who peruse Digital Gardens, and the people who Learn in Public with them. Saved
- A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden — concept Saved
- Don't leave the screen reader hungry - HTMHell — If you’re looking for video examples of how elements and components announce, check out the HTML section of atomica11y. Saved
- The Boring Internet — The internet you grew up on isn't dying. A commercial veneer glued on top of it is. A visual essay about what actually persists. Saved
- Handwritten code | Katherine Yang — But what a privilege it is to read your code. Saved
- Your documentation is still in your Mum's filing cabinet — It's kind of wild that we're still organising knowledge like it's sitting in a 1970s filing cabinet. People and AI don't think in folders. They find information through search, context and connections. Saved
- Substack writers, you need a website! — Substack is convenient, but treat it as a distribution tool for your content. Your content should live on an independently owned website, which has a domain name you control and own. This way, you … Saved
- I didn't set a cookie. — Everything this page knows about you, it learned in under two seconds. Without a cookie, a permission prompt, or a click. Saved
- Treat your to-read pile like a river | Oliver Burkeman — I'm going to take a wild guess here and say that you, like me, have a large pile (or digital equivalent) of books or articles you've been meaning to get around to reading, plus maybe a long queue of podcast episodes to which you'd love to listen, if only you had the time. It's the archetypal "first-world problem", I know. But one worth reflecting on – because it's a microcosm of a broader mista... Saved
- Native Apps Should Be Avoided Whenever Possible — No One's Happy — Why native apps have become privacy liabilities, and why the browser is almost always the better choice. Saved