All posts with the tag "web"
20 years is a long time to work on something, congrats Blake! So many great links to small web creators, why, and how to build your own site.
As algos turn to shit the small web remains a space that cannot be ruined. There will always be rss feeds from real humans writing for other humans.
Oh I kinda like the name blogmark, as opposed to thoughts like I have chose for the same thing. Aparantly Simon beat me to the punch by 20 years on this one.
THIS! is the same reasons that I built thoughts{.hoverlink}. Simon has bee a big inspiration along the way. He defintely changed the format of my posts as I watched him build out his quote posts.
Link blogging is a pleasantly low-pressure way of writing online. Found something interesting? Post a link to it, with a sentence or two about why it’s worth checking out.
Ditto! just make a post.
Kellan brings some interesting thoughts on where the internet is headed in 2024. Interestingly I see myself headed in a similar direction. Feeling like I know just enough to say fuck it and build my own platform for me to me me, from thoughts{.hoverlink} where I link and make thoughts on posts like this, to reader{.hoverlink} which is my rss reader replacement that I wanted in 2013 when it was killedbygoogle
And particular with the collapse of the social spaces many of us grew up with, I feel called back to earlier forms of the Internet, like blogs, and in particular, starting a link blog.
Ai has really had quite the two sided effect since...
An absolute fantastic episode about blogging, thinking about a web1.0 kind of world today, and what it means moving forward.
Web 1.0 is robust, you own your own destiny, you own your data, you can do what you want. There is no platform to tell you what you can and cannot do. But the future web is stealing your data to build AI models, spam sites are duplicating your content and stealing your SEO. You may or may not care, but at the end whether you get traffic or now you own your web 1.0 sites.
In flask apps I often get a 404 for routes with a trailing slash. This Stack Overflow post shows how to configure flask to allow trailing slashes on some or all routes.