A look at modern news websites. How programmatic ad-tech, huge payloads and hostile architecture destroyed the reading experience.
Foundations: the accessibility tree - TetraLogical
There's a common misconception that when browsing the web using a screen reader, it's reading the actual screen. This is not really surprising, as the name suggests that's exactly what it's doing. And, this is what early screen readers did, so, we can't really blame anybody for thinking that!
homepages.news — News Homepages documentation
An open-source archive that gathers, saves, shares and analyzes news homepages
How the small web is creating an anti-slop internet
What is the small web? A new crop of platforms are answering algorithmic fatigue with a return to human-curated basics.
OWID Homepage
Research and data to make progress against the world’s largest problems.
How Dependent Is Your Newsroom on Big Tech?
A web-based survey tool that evaluates journalism organizations' dependency on Big Tech platforms and services.
Dictionary Compression is finally here, and it's ridiculously good
Dictionary compression could completely change how applications send data over the web. It's recently gained broad support, and offers absurd real-world...
How the Web Was Lost – James Gleick
This Is for Everyone: The Unfinished Story of the World Wide Webby Tim Berners-Lee with Stephen WittFarrar, Straus and Giroux, 389 pp., $30
Web Browsers, AI, and the Politics of Media Power
The left keeps building media strategies on top of platforms built to undermine them. As browsers are rebuilt for mass surveillance and manipulation, the systems that decide what people see and who gets heard are being rewritten without us. Control over the browser is control over political reality.
Skyreader update - Home, Magazines, and Paged view - Skyreader Dev Log
A calmer front door and more tools to work through your reading backlog
Lexicon Service Docs - at:// pizza thoughts
Riffing on some ways to make network services more legible to humans and machines
The Age of PageRank is Over | Kagi Blog
When Sergey Brin and Larry Page came up with the concept of PageRank in their seminal paper The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine ( http://infolab.stanford.edu/pub/papers/google.pdf ) (Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page, Stanford University, 1998) they profoundly changed the way we utilize the web.
Skyreader: A RSS Reader on the AT Protocol
Introducing a RSS reader for the AT Protocol where you feeds and article sharing are portable