- A Map of the Internet from May 1973
This is a wonderful bit of history.
Tag: internet
Bookmarks for April 2, 2019
- A Few Simple Steps to Vastly Increase Your Privacy Online
This is a really good guide – there are a few things in here I didn't know about, and will start doing.
Bookmarks for May 10, 2018
- Laravel Translation via Google Spreadsheet – SkyshiDigital – Medium
An interesting way to set up translations within Laravel – make it easy to give non-techical users access to edit a site's translations.
- Kolide
Device/security management system that's got a free tier that might actually be worth install in my own devices to give me a central place to manage them and keep an eye out for security issues.
- Laravel API Documentation Generator
Might be useful at work. Or for myself another time.
- 20 Laravel Eloquent Tips and Tricks – Laravel News
I knew about half of these, and want to remember the others for later.
- 1.1.1.1 — the Internet’s Fastest, Privacy-First DNS Resolver
This is really nice, and from a company with a pretty good track record. I'll be setting it up at home myself later, and I encourage others to do the same.
- PolaPi-Zero | Hackaday.io
I would like to go a few steps past this project, but in order to do that, I need to build this project.
Bookmarks for June 26, 2017
- Notes From An Emergency
Serious, thoughtful critique outlinging the current regulatory capture of the US government by the tech industry, and how it affects Europe, and what we might do.
Bookmarks for May 20, 2016
- Russell Davies: Subtleties
This, this, a thousand times this. Dealing with people at a senior level who just don't get the web is frustrating, and honestly, I think if you're leading an organisation in the 21st Century, and you don't understand this stuff, then you are by definition, leading badly.
Bookmarks for December 26, 2015
- App Directory | Slack
Slack app integrations. May be useful later.
- Official BBC instructions for knitting Doctor Who's scarf
How to knit the 4th Doctor's scarf.
- The sad economics of being famous on the internet | Fusion
Interesting and saddening breakdown of the economics of internet fame.
Bookmarks for September 29, 2014
- Yahoo Directory to close down
I am internet-old enough to remember when the Yahoo directory was the best way to find websites on the internet. A hand-categorised-by-actual-humans list of the most useful websites on many topics was superior (for a while, anyway) to what was produced by the early-stage search engines. I used it pretty much daily. A significant chunk of my first ever internet job was devoted to making sure that our client's sites actually got listed in the Yahoo directory. I am, therefore, wiping away a little nostalgic tear.
Bookmarks for May 22, 2014
- Signs from the near future
On the one hand, this is interesting because it's about the practical applications of design. On the other, quite a lot of these feel a bit retro-future to me. Which is kind of weird, and an idea I probably want to explore a bit in some form when time permits.
- On the Future of MetaFilter — Technology Musings — Medium
Relatedly to one of today's other links here's a write up of what's going on with Metafilter, which basically comes down to "it's business model is built on Google being helpful in a specific way". Which is a flaw in their model, but it's also an interested outside perspective on things changing inside the Google black box.
- Jeremy Palmer — Google is Breaking the Internet
This is insane to me. I know I'm on record as not being a Google cheerleader, but this is weird, even for them – their business is built on accurately rating the trustworthiness of links, and yet they're mis-classifying trustworthy links as untrustworthy? This says to me that something is broken internally in Google, and if they don't get if fixed, it's going to be long-term bad for *everyone*. I'd like to see this do the rounds and get outcry about it, not because I believe Google are being Evil here, but because I think they need to be made very aware of the mistake, for everyone's good, including theirs.
- Read This If All You Know About Hyenas Came From The Lion King
OK, I now understand why Del is a fan of these creatures. Absolutely fascinating.
Bookmarks for January 27, 2014
- JURASSIC PARK Velociraptor Cage Crate 1993 Original Screen Used Movie Prop | eBay
Someone fetch me 70 Grand. I need this, for Import Reasons. Yes. Reasons.
- 38 Breathtaking Pictures From The Early Days Of The London Underground
Filed for later inspiration.
- What Is a Million “Likes” Worth? — Artists on the Internet — Medium
Straight talking write up of making money and an indie artist on the internet.
Bookmarks for May 30, 2012
- UNDO DEL IUMA « ASCII by Jason Scott
The Internet Underground Music Archive is back. It's, ah, a bit trial and error, but basically, there's this absolutely vast pile of free music out there again. If you can't find something in here that you like, I'll eat my socks.
- Half of Detroit’s Streetlights May Go Out as City Shrinks – Bloomberg
Light as an architecture of control. Creepy as fuck – "we're just going to let poor people sit in the dark, in the hope that making their neighbourhoods less safe will make them move" is, well, not the subtext here, but the outright *text*.