1084 commits

Author	SHA1	Message	Date
Rohan Kumar	c352b83bad	nothing of importance has happened on this day ... absolutely nothing significant has just happened on this day. this commit is meaningless. why does this commit exist.	2022-06-20 22:57:46 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	f9c497fac0	Rename "posts" section to "articles" ... No liinks changed; just the content displayed. The "posts" section is now "artilces" to distinguish it from my "notes" section.	2022-06-19 20:15:56 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	b3a676c72d	New note: welcome to the IndieWeb	2022-06-20 14:30:25 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	1e2595cfe3	Site design: add stuff borrowed from Web Almanac	2022-06-20 14:28:57 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	9f681f9c0d	Fix bad link	2022-06-20 09:24:54 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	4c7d36e7cf	Use soft hyphens more judiciously ... - Recommend others be careful with their use of soft hyphens, and test with NVDA. Poorly-placed hyphens can make words sound unclear. - Dial back my use of soft hyphens to only what's necessary.	2022-06-19 16:23:17 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	9b3373701d	Switch archives to proper Hugo "list" template	2022-06-19 14:21:40 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	93451cfe84	New note: small web frameworks	2022-06-19 13:16:06 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	866d6b11ee	New note: browser dev moratorium	2022-06-18 13:38:32 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	fba366ca11	Check and fix broken links	2022-06-17 20:36:35 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	b3b50d2ee3	Mention IE living on through Outlook and Word	2022-06-17 10:11:34 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	9f3d6b9df3	Re-introduce RSS discoverability alongside Atom ... The RSS feeds use escaped HTML instead of XHTML, which improves compatibility with certain feed readers (e.g. Microsoft Outlook). Mention that Outlook uses its own weird engine for feed contents in my web best practices article.	2022-06-17 08:51:53 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	e7ceb122a5	Add "uses" page	2022-06-16 17:17:35 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	1329678af1	New note: Internet Explorer is almost dead	2022-06-15 19:49:46 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	2e213f90ac	typo	2022-06-15 19:43:37 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	d5b19a0d72	New note: Dillo repository mirror	2022-06-14 13:45:32 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	d3c992b397	New note: better vote-enabled forums	2022-06-14 10:53:10 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	064aef8d76	Link Gossip's Web	2022-06-13 17:04:13 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	10aa9551fd	Mention Busybox as an example	2022-06-13 17:03:42 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	69e5d38b2c	Mention vim, whatis, and apropos manpage integration	2022-06-13 08:34:42 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	da824ada96	Re-organize and expand recommendations ... - Add recommendation to avoid ASCII-art - Split recommendations into sub-sections - Minor rephrasings - Remove soft hyphen from gemtext	2022-06-13 08:32:20 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	6fc1a907b4	Add --dry-run and mention living article.	2022-06-13 08:24:45 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	c68fb1f2f8	Add privacy info to Petal	2022-06-12 21:52:47 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	5cd1899f98	New note: "Flatpak and web browsers"	2022-06-12 16:24:50 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	d9bbdaf4b2	Add Apple and Amazon search engines	2022-06-12 16:04:16 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	55dffe7b4e	Link web best practices article in accessibility statement	2022-06-12 14:49:15 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	fc5f08c8ff	Add web directory backlinks	2022-06-12 14:13:05 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	65c6841f6a	Add note on borders and re-flow	2022-06-11 20:12:27 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	48607ba2c2	Add Fediverse greeting	2022-06-11 18:20:44 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	56c9054950	Add Daum and ALibw.com	2022-06-11 16:38:13 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	0a51e4d5e6	New note: XML adventures	2022-06-11 14:59:24 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	1c2cae096d	Add translation to gemini article	2022-06-11 13:29:35 -07:00
Alex	2ccf231931	Add German translation to WhatsApp and the domestication of users	2022-06-11 13:26:58 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	0fc9fe4de7	Markup fix: use paragraphs in bibliography	2022-06-11 13:24:47 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	285b93bbc7	New note: TUIs and accessibility	2022-06-11 13:13:26 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	9ea5ad0de9	New note: minimal website responsiveness	2022-06-11 13:00:46 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	360edfa0de	Typos	2022-06-11 12:42:51 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	00d3b170b2	Fix bad markup	2022-06-10 19:41:35 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	7833fcd15d	Revert changes to mention-work	2022-06-10 19:35:33 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	a502691c38	New post: CLI best practices	2022-06-10 19:24:54 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	0e86aa6ba7	Clarify implicit CSP directives in privacy policy	2022-06-10 19:22:55 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	c41e602ed1	Add info on site design	2022-06-10 18:49:31 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	666342d867	mention Brave SpeedReader	2022-06-10 17:25:16 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	7eda7a9b9d	Link combined atom feed on homepage	2022-06-09 17:53:41 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	470a8772b9	fix bad <time> format	2022-06-08 18:25:24 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	ae0661bb7a	Typos, missing "required" attribute	2022-06-08 18:15:17 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	dda031b9db	Update privay policy to reflect search integration	2022-06-08 18:12:20 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	d3ad0e7382	another typo	2022-06-08 17:43:16 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	1cbc635525	Various typos, correction ... - Correct "JS-enabled engines" note with info on Yep - Minor typos	2022-06-08 17:29:46 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	acfffd3754	Fix some markup ... - Put headings outside of links in SERP - fix a <div> wrapping issue in the about page - Mark up the result excerpts with a <q> element.	2022-06-08 17:14:39 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	6042b0bdaf	Add structured data for SearchAction ... Should support a sitelinks searchbox now.	2022-06-09 11:13:25 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	5f48ca7bbe	Display search results on my own site ... Use the SearchMySite API to gather results and render them in HTML on my own site. I'll open-source the Go program that generates the results soon.	2022-06-09 08:44:55 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	48a9088ca1	New nore: "Demise of DTDs".	2022-06-08 00:13:48 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	3c4d8381fd	Fiz entity	2022-06-07 23:41:59 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	2ceeed427e	New note: resize and reflow	2022-06-07 23:38:44 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	603bbd8fa2	Minor clarification: required and optional perms	2022-06-07 11:16:21 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	31e80769a0	Add apioforum, apionet	2022-06-07 11:04:18 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	a7cd9d94f7	Correction: uBO can only inject certain scripts	2022-06-07 11:02:47 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	3c914b4dd1	Support multiple <dt> that share a <dd> ... - Make sure their tap targets do not overlap - Use a regex to detect them in markup using an "OR" keyword - Implement them in one article.	2022-06-06 21:42:32 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	430adb99a9	Add a wee clarification	2022-06-06 16:52:26 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	f132e194ed	Typo	2022-06-06 16:51:12 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	51f69c5d61	New note: on tracker blocking	2022-06-06 16:38:02 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	665efa85e6	Better profile info ... - Re-org home+about profile info - Moar webfinger - Moar microformats	2022-06-06 15:59:20 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	13a2595482	Add combined Atom feed	2022-06-06 12:26:28 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	695239681b	Drop x-dns-prefetch-control header ... Non-standard header of dubious merit, since my site shouldn't do prefetching in the first place.	2022-06-05 21:15:22 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	b342b803e6	Remove draft status	2022-06-04 22:50:08 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	058344c83c	New post: "A layered approach to content blocking"	2022-06-04 22:47:00 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	29371ed1f8	Fairsearch -> Yep rename	2022-06-03 17:41:34 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	734fc16df4	New note: opt-out telemetry	2022-06-03 02:27:43 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	576ab1453c	Remove draft:true, typo	2022-06-02 21:00:51 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	2e0babc6de	New note: DuckDuckGo and Bing	2022-06-02 20:59:39 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	840bf38de6	Whitespace fixes	2022-06-02 20:01:50 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	74842ce644	New note: JS-enabled engines	2022-06-02 18:32:30 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	f271291f49	Automate reply-context, add more metadata to Atom ... - Build reply-context from front-matter - Add more activitystreams, portblecontacts, ostatus, etc. metadata to Atom feed. Inspired by Pleroma's feeds.	2022-06-02 17:36:06 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	71bb714ba2	Amend pale moon note	2022-06-01 17:37:24 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	874414229e	Metadata amendments ... - Re-order rel for my homepage's representative h-crad - Fix the aria-current for the homepage - Microdata: remove unnecessary "sameAs" - Reduce "update without adding date updated" timeout to 15min - Add u-uid and rel=me to my h-card on every page.	2022-06-01 10:04:35 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	7c709cb91e	Fix bad ARIA role	2022-06-01 10:02:13 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	b557bb9474	Fix feed subtitles and descriptions	2022-06-01 09:59:52 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	6f2b2d5fff	New note: Pale Moon	2022-06-01 09:59:40 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	f148720fba	New note: Commodified and commoditized	2022-06-01 00:47:56 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	a46b790a62	Remove microdata from feeds ... It's useless and invalid in those contexts, and removing it significantly trims the file sizes. Edit a post featuring a microdata code snippet to avoid conflicts.	2022-05-31 20:52:16 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	6a7ac36f11	Add 404 page	2022-05-31 18:07:04 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	1aed7a66d4	Switch to XHTML5 markup ... The site now has polygot markup and can handle both XHTML5 and HTML5 parsing rules. My staging site will be XHTML but my main site will be HTML5, just in case of parse errors. If other tools (e.g. LightHouse) end up supporting XHTML5, I'll consider switching the content-type to XHTML.	2022-05-30 17:39:45 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	4201b1ad05	New note: "Things can get better"	2022-05-30 13:24:35 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	232ca4639c	New note: Prologue to the meta post	2022-05-30 12:12:01 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	c82cd646dc	Poggies.	2022-05-29 22:06:03 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	5e732189e0	Typo	2022-05-29 12:02:57 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	7c9013dfec	New note: "On displaying word counts"	2022-05-29 12:02:15 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	12d693690e	New note: soulless pride	2022-05-29 00:10:51 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	1d44bc382d	Marginalia.nu has gone open source	2022-05-28 14:11:51 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	4433603899	New note: site refactor	2022-05-27 17:18:08 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	c84c8d4214	BREAKING: Prettify URLs, add Atom feeds ... Adding a bunch of server configs to do the re-directs too.	2022-05-26 18:57:49 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	d6d88f1e92	New note: "New search box"	2022-05-26 17:42:31 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	1e2a243952	New note: signal security	2022-05-26 12:18:45 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	6b8dd5a657	Use <aside> for reply context ... Makes it play better with reading modes, etc	2022-05-26 12:17:58 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	10fb1f9e4a	New note: "answer engines"	2022-05-25 19:59:09 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	d123bd9a12	New shortcode: "mention-work". ... Will be useful when I start posting reply notes.	2022-05-24 17:25:16 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	5d8fcec511	New note: "dark theme woes"	2022-05-24 16:53:55 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	d409a1ba58	Add "notes" ... Short-form posts for microblogging. TODO: implement POSSE.	2022-05-24 16:37:26 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	063ddbb8d9	Elaborate on single-col layout, make evergreen	2022-05-23 17:35:50 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	279d70810e	Support "evergreen" articles ... "evergreen" articles don't get outdated and shouldn't be marked with a published date in previews.	2022-05-23 08:39:24 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	2204ae8861	Microdata improvements ... - Semantically link each blog posting to the greater blog - Fix copyright bullshit - Make some articles TechArticles - Remove unnecessary markup	2022-05-20 18:32:21 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	9077660b9f	New section "visible interactive semantics" ... Move "in defense of link underlines" to subsection of new "visible interactive semantics" section. Add info on distinguishing between buttons and links, and making non-interactive space look visually distinct from interactive space.	2022-05-19 19:31:24 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	c5eb934555	Clarify horizontal line test, RT-tracking overkill ... - round-trip-tracking is overkill for most use-cases - clarify that horizontal line test is best used for landmarks and for multiple different grouping elements, rather than just any grouping element.	2022-05-18 18:31:55 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	c124687391	Remove title attributes from <time> ... They're not interactive elements and there's no hint that they should be hovered on. Wrapping them in an <abbr> would just make the markup even more overcomplicated, so I just dropped the titles.	2022-05-18 17:18:36 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	831c54b4ab	Fix metadata/semantics, clarify alt text length	2022-05-18 11:38:16 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	6d066f8711	Support page-specific open graph images ... Allow specifying open graph images for individual pages. Change default site-wide open graph image alt-text to an empty string since the default image only has visual value, and is better off hidden from assistive technologies. Set an open graph image for two articles.	2022-05-18 09:00:05 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	795e5fc58c	Add footnote about SC 2.4.8, fix gemtext footnotes ... Some gemtext footnote refs were missing; some were out of order.	2022-05-17 17:17:20 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	f1867f4255	Add section: "Transfer size and user flows", fixes ... - Add new subsection of "optimal loading" that connects WCAG SC 2.4.5 with payload size. - Remove/replace some inline formatting. - Add some in-page-links to definitions and new section - Replace "click" with "navigate" since not everyone navigates by click.	2022-05-17 08:54:25 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	d543f7a6b2	Limits of translation, hard-wrapped <pre> ... Describe current limitations of machine translation for web content, and encourage authors to hard-wrap <pre> text to limit horizontal scrolling in widescreen desktop browsers. Mention KaiOS Readout	2022-05-13 17:23:16 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	e523956ecd	Some additions and fixes ... - Benefit of identical source/dom/visual order: layout consistency - Expand the "horizontal-line test" to be a bit more precise. - Elaborate on line-length issues in SC 1.4.8 - Add footnote mentioning uBlock Origin's support for blocking large media elements - Update mention of border-colors: I don't set most border colors anymore. - Switch "lighten them up" to "de-saturate them" regarding colors and overstimulation. - Update references to my CSS color palette to reflect changes - Reduce excessive inline formatting in a blockquote - Re-phrasings and formatting	2022-05-13 17:14:16 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	e158b93bf2	Update my bios.	2022-05-12 21:08:44 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	a9039e1bde	Adjust image transcript approach ... - Use section instead of nested article - Adjust stylesheets to match above markup changes - Mention upcoming aria-details	2022-05-12 17:33:12 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	b5bf54ff45	Fix missing itemprop	2022-05-11 23:40:24 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	a96b77793b	More CSS containment, adopt shortcodes ... - Adopt more shortcodes in older posts. - Contain figures, excluding images. Slightly decreases paint times. - Fix spacing issues for nested articles. - Always enable vertical scrollbar, since pretty much all pages are taller than the viewport. Eliminates a layout shift. - Moar microdata - Set fixed updated dates for some posts so they don't get new date-updated values until I actually change the content significantly	2022-05-11 23:32:35 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	8f4e1b7468	Disable resume post-meta, only use .gmi changelog ... - Only show changelogs for gemtext since they only include changes to content rather than semantics - Disable useless post meta on resume.	2022-05-11 21:29:47 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	fb84eb5d12	Minor microdata/whitespace fixes	2022-05-10 16:05:22 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	71dc86faf9	Fix non-interactive space section & impl ... Improve non-interactive space on the homepage and use a better screenshot to illustrate the concept.	2022-05-09 17:51:44 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	4f177f5536	Use less harsh colors in a screenshot ... Make the dark link underlines screenshot less prone to overstimulation	2022-05-09 08:25:13 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	7bd796a44c	Floating block examples, Tkhtml, semantics, other ... - Change a quote of a code snippet to a code snippet with a citation - Mention tkhtml - Mention pandoc and printfriendly as exmples of moving figure elements like floating blocks. - Make TPGi a publisher, not an author. - Use brackets to clarify a reference in a quotation. - Add personal example of why it's important to test both low- and high-end displays.	2022-05-08 21:08:08 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	88ca957941	add info on watches/translation/indentation/other ... - Mention device-adjust - translation tools don't always understand nested translate directives - another pitfall of over-reliance on indentation: nested indented elements are ambiguous - Fix some typos - Update outdatead references to my site's CSS that I've since changed.	2022-05-07 22:17:27 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	3cd44b2ce5	Typos, grammar, descriptive names, etc.	2022-05-06 22:15:29 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	f5f0785e65	Microdata: add itemid attributes	2022-05-06 10:33:42 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	6ebbd739fd	Fix image structured data	2022-05-06 10:30:11 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	ee498b9745	Fix broken link	2022-05-05 20:39:23 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	89b0e01e66	Fix microdata nesting ... Make sure separate elements are part of each other so only a single element is at the top level.	2022-05-05 19:57:27 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	bf07611639	Update guidance on tap target and non-interactive size	2022-05-05 15:31:30 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	d97481f381	Homepage refactor ... - Make webring links touch-friendly and accessible by using spaced-out details elements. - Make details elements touch-friendly by indicating interactive region area and making summary padded. - Sort featured posts by featured order. - Ensure that at least one non-interactive tappable region exists on the screen at all times, 48x48 px.	2022-05-04 22:22:38 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	aee6d9410c	Drop a featured article ... Compensates for the text added to the homepage in the parent commit.	2022-05-03 22:01:18 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	781f910f99	POSH: replace some divs with <section>s, add <p> ... - Put webmention list items in <p> - make doc-endnotes a section again - make doc-preface a section with a heading apart from the TOC.	2022-05-03 21:30:20 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	1863c65dce	Trivial rephrase, keeps a figure from overflowing	2022-05-03 17:09:21 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	992ba534af	restricted enhancement, rename article, narrow vp ... - Define term "restricted enhancement" - Rename article (shorter title) - Better support for narrow viewports	2022-05-02 21:13:50 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	adcccad94e	Website tests: add test exclusions	2022-05-02 17:09:46 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	1502d59e59	Add automated testing tools, better link names ... Split "testing" section up into two subsections, with one subsection for automated testing tools. Split "The Tor Browser" section into two subsections. Make link names more descriptive.	2022-05-02 15:42:44 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	321f851431	Remove responsive navbar ... It's mobile-friendly as-is. I made sure that tap-targets were even bigger and more spaced-apart, just to be safe. Hide unnecessary nav-links in print mode.	2022-05-01 17:04:20 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	cc59c9abf0	More about APCA, RCWN, allow-same-origin, typos	2022-04-29 17:37:24 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	ad42b30027	Fix some microdata	2022-04-29 09:01:40 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	cb2337fb0f	Typo	2022-04-29 08:57:06 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	543bbbc502	Fix some url redirects	2022-04-29 08:54:36 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	b22ec089f8	Rephrase, mention problems with role=text.	2022-04-28 17:43:46 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	fb6e91c820	Reduce accidental skips, add transcript, microdata ... When a figure is in the middle of a section, mobile screen reader users might not switch away from heading-based navigation. Instead, they might just jump to the next heading. Re-organize the page to put some skippable content closer to the end of sections, and add a section describing the need for this. Also add a transcript to the screenshot of BMFW, and adopt the new quotecaption shortcode, and fix some structured data by using some shortcodes properly.	2022-04-27 17:53:50 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	371253c2dc	Improve code blocks ... - Support defining text in a codeblock that can be translated - Shrink some blocks to prevent page breaks on print	2022-04-27 08:53:39 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	048a8147cc	Fix broken link	2022-04-27 08:45:47 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	f964152072	Add SerenityOS screenshot ... obv gotta show off that awesome retro desktop	2022-04-26 22:39:12 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	f8cc34f37b	Phrasing	2022-04-26 17:22:18 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	447b8463bb	Elaborate on HPACK/QPACK, simplify code snippet	2022-04-26 17:16:29 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	4f846cea91	Homepage: be concise	2022-04-26 17:09:28 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	16b30d474c	Typo	2022-04-26 09:21:11 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	4ed64cf96e	off-by-one error	2022-04-26 09:20:31 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	75e3e019c7	More on color overrides, some hyphens.	2022-04-25 22:12:53 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	5afbe2b108	Trivial typo	2022-04-25 20:04:07 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	3db1d6ca1b	Mention FoUC + WFoD, and more on ATs ... - Mention the browser-AT relation. - Mention symbol names versus appearance. - Also throw in a doc-tip	2022-04-25 17:40:16 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	a5245b26fa	Remove broken link	2022-04-25 17:35:46 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	99963aebf1	A11y: fix urls with the same name	2022-04-25 17:33:57 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	b12bdb543f	Remove unused class	2022-04-25 17:29:57 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	eb8ca07b9f	Goldmark 1.4.12, switch to good unminified output ... - Goldmark 1.4.12 switches footnotes from a <section> to a <div>; update regexes and stylesheet to account for this. - Goldmark 1.4.12 allows multiple footnotes with the same reference; use that. - Clean up templates for unminified output. Also delete an unused class. - Switch to unminified output by default.	2022-04-25 08:49:13 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	4e65794972	Remove repetitive link.	2022-04-24 22:03:51 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	76bc44b9a2	Shorter alt-text, unique link names.	2022-04-24 21:53:19 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	715fb820ec	Rephrasings to make descriptions less spatial	2022-04-24 16:53:46 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	86def57b1b	Fix some dated info ... Some changes on my site weren't reflected in the article content.	2022-04-23 20:20:17 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	a84a6d8520	Add indetdex engines	2022-04-23 20:13:22 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	8ddc2ec879	Make transcript the description of the image.	2022-04-22 11:48:22 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	d3806e630c	Shorten some unnecessarily verbose alt-text ... The same necessary information is conveyed, but now it's shorter. Also removed some extra redundant information.	2022-04-22 08:49:27 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	0dc6ee1258	New "contrast is complex" sub-section ... Elaborate on how hues with good perceptual contrast can be over-stimulating, so we should try to make them "washed-out" when possible.	2022-04-21 23:01:35 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	c939afbc0a	Elaborate on focus indicators + fix anchors	2022-04-21 21:40:40 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	120232a403	Re-do my approach to image transcripts. ... Way better now. Also introduce a way to emphasize some keywords in code blocks without going full syntax-highlighting.	2022-04-20 17:55:13 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	50c3ec981c	Improve + talk about image transcripts some more	2022-04-20 17:36:02 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	8d1fa33d0c	Add more info on Windows High Contrast mode	2022-04-19 20:19:58 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	49c14a8b2a	Re-order some resume bits	2022-04-19 20:15:55 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	432fa923af	Update my bios ... Just realized my site makes me look like a massive techbro. Ugh. Added some info about my other interests, esp. a11y and inclusive design.	2022-04-19 20:11:56 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	8e8512290b	Fix invalid HTML	2022-04-19 20:07:30 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	52a7b8a737	Fix overflow	2022-04-19 18:17:21 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	01e52bad16	Split up figcaption partial, add some fignos ... - give code blocks their own figure numbers/names/ID - Split figcaption into quotecaption and codecaption - create codefigure partial to reduce markup for SoftwareSourceCode figures	2022-04-19 18:06:57 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	84cde2e97f	Internal: create + use figure shortcodes + hooks ... Create a for <figcaption> and a render hook for code snippets inside figures, replacing some ugly and complex inline HTML in my markdown sources. The only visible change is slightly worse HTML alignment and programming language indicators (with microdata). This removed the need to use one of the regex replacements in the processed_content.html shortcode, and increased the minimum required Hugo version to 0.93.	2022-04-18 21:15:29 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	e59f3b6e15	Expand "Accessible skimming" section ... I've learned a lot about landmarks recently.	2022-04-18 21:20:50 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	78d9ddb749	Mention screen reader verbosity and noise	2022-04-18 21:06:21 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	8d34425e45	Markdown style, put some figcaptions in paragraphs ... Figcaptions for code snippets should be in their own paragraphs, since they're a bit more descriptive.	2022-04-18 08:57:33 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	92f1d70128	Fix TOC aria labels, avoid bad spatial word choice	2022-04-18 01:29:05 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	9d34f82f5d	Limit homepage posts to featured posts	2022-04-18 00:31:19 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	e4b5d59520	Reference other article, phrasing, fix double id	2022-04-18 00:09:09 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	8bc7176e6d	Fix broken anchor link	2022-04-17 13:07:20 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	ca3e997c61	Remove redundant link and trailing whitespace.	2022-04-17 13:03:39 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	c2e146e7bc	More narrow screen optim for old browsers ... Some old browser engines don't fully support hyphenation, so they need some extra help. Now, the entire site should fit in a 150 CSS-pixel wide viewport. Clean up some link text too so the text alone is more useful.	2022-04-15 21:06:28 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	3632ab0bc1	Cleanup: remove redundant link, word break ... Some browsers don't break words with hyphens.	2022-04-14 22:51:21 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	107643dfb5	Add missing screenshot of focus indicators	2022-04-14 22:51:05 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	7726d8341e	Even more narrow optim ... Should now work on a viewport of 150px	2022-04-14 22:15:36 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	401837952f	Make all pages look good in 150px viewports ... All pages except bookmarks can now fit on your smartwatch without any adjustments, so we can disable the auto-zoom-out-to-match-mobile wizardry that watch browsers do (comparable to the zoom-out-to-match-desktop stuff that early mobile browsers did). Yay.	2022-04-13 18:43:12 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	98979f33de	Mention smartwatches with web browsers ... Support extremely narrow viewports. Add some hyphens accordingly.	2022-04-13 18:42:52 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	5d8a86f27f	Fix whitespace again	2022-04-13 18:25:59 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	2bfc97df9a	Add section on inaccessible browser stylesheets	2022-04-13 18:15:42 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	e3cf310fb9	Meorca is back	2022-04-11 16:47:11 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	c9d3f0c178	Link Speed Index docs, spelling	2022-04-11 16:46:09 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	37860608d0	More on dark stylesheets ... - More on the APCA being premature - Notes on WebKit's shitty default dark colors needing to be overridden	2022-04-11 16:12:57 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	3200333424	Shorter alts, formatting, redundant links, cleanup ... - Shrink some excessive alt text - Remove some redundant links - Screenreaders that split elements up aren't just on touchscreens - Mention ChromeVox in list of screen readers - Move TOC higher in page - Spelling - Drop more unused classes	2022-04-09 08:59:12 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	41b66d8ceb	Put TOC heading inside the TOC <nav> ... Putting the heading in the navigation element makes the structure more logical and matches the behavior of most other websites. Move it before the introduction in my web best practices post.	2022-04-09 08:51:10 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	072ab1dfff	Add + comply with notes on screen reader support ... - Replace hashes in code snippets with variables for screen-readability - Use hyphens where valid instead of combined words for screen reader pronunciation - Typo - Add WIP section on screen reader support tips not already covered.	2022-04-10 17:24:59 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	e63e856c9a	Typo, mention problematic Immersive Reader css	2022-04-09 12:22:51 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	dc8a635cf9	Fix hole in privacy policy ... I hope nobody noticed	2022-04-08 21:03:02 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	a3b8eb87b7	Add image of hidden search matches, wrapping fixes ... - Add ugly screenshot of reddit redesign - Fix wrapping on narrow viewports	2022-04-08 21:01:08 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	91eef19a8e	Add "in-page search" sec, other additions ... - New section on in-page search - Mention most alt search indexes don't support JS - Background images bad - More sample tests: word processors that support HTML	2022-04-08 17:18:45 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	9ba563d868	Rephrasings, inc. more clear link names ... Minor rephrasings of some stuff, partially to improve link names (a11y)	2022-04-07 15:42:09 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	069dca0a06	New subsection on cache, semantic code snippets ... Add "Don't count on the cache" under the "Optimal loading" section. Some semantics for code snippets, including switching some from <code> to <samp>.	2022-04-06 23:42:10 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	89f04e2f31	Fix structured data	2022-04-06 23:14:13 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	fb3312eaed	Update bloopish URL	2022-04-06 22:02:24 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	c0d511b7c9	Mark up and widen code snippets	2022-04-06 19:02:17 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	aab9356cf2	New section on spacing, other additions ... - Mention checking privacy policies for 3p content - Elaborate on more mainstream examples of color overrides - Link to CSS WG docs instead of MDN for prefers-contrast since they're more detailed. - Specify that I'm just removing margins in <figure> elements for quotations.	2022-04-06 17:49:19 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	ba637cf1db	Add obligatory privacy policy ... TLDR: I don't collect anything except for default access logs purged every other day	2022-04-04 19:20:14 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	27ccfaca7b	Add info on non-breaing spaces.	2022-04-04 19:17:52 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	48a18e22c5	Improve narrow-screen and mobile compat ... Add soft hyphens to search engines and homepage. But search engine list items in paragraphs to use the user-agent's preferred paragraph spacing.	2022-04-04 19:12:46 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	2f960ca7ec	Better linking, mention DPUB-ARIA, more infscroll ... - Annotate links to PDFs and JS-mandatory content - Add note on dpub-aria to the reading-mode section - Fix a bad link	2022-04-04 18:11:50 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	8e2e1f9cc5	More information on image transcripts ... - Add quote describing how blind readers struggle to find non-semantic context - Mention that longdesc is deprecated by simple hyperlinks. Describe an alternative. - Transcripts are necessary for machine translation - Improve alt-text used alongside an image transcript	2022-04-04 15:46:04 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	f3b2c3ffa6	Rephrasing: better + inclusive use of prepositions ... Follow https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/inclusive-communication/inclusive-language-words-to-use-and-avoid-when-writing-about-disability to mention disabilities directly with adjectives rather than prepositions. Fix my over-use of "with" by using more appropriate prepositions.	2022-04-03 21:10:16 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	73215343ca	Remove obsolete longdesc	2022-04-03 20:53:13 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	b1e7b65e02	Re-organize and clarify some things ... - Re-phrase a line referring to a previous section; after some re-arrangements, that section is no longer a "previous" section. - Replace spatial terminology ("bottom") with sequential terminology ("end") - Add note on font enumeration without the Font Access API - Acknowledge testing in grayscale but emphasize that it isn't enough. - Move defense of link underlines to just after the section on custom colors, since it's more relevant to it. - Add xkcd image into the page instead of just linking, since the linked page content is an image that doesn't include a transcript or descriptive alt-text. - Trivial rephrasings	2022-04-03 19:34:45 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	e5b0963d4f	Typos	2022-04-03 19:18:33 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	05a71fec3d	More accessible article layout ... - Make sure that headings don't have the same name as any links, to avoid creating links with similar names but different purposes - Remove useless <aside> elements that wrap landmarks. - Move TOC down a bit, after the intro.	2022-04-03 16:03:22 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	cef17cef0f	Expand image optimization section ... - Elaborate on each image optimization tool - Mention using GNU Parallel or squoosh.app - Describe libavif with libaom+butteraugli and the YUV400 color space - Why you should avoid srcsets based on viewport or display properties - Fix code snippet for <picture> sample Threw in some formatting and very minor phrasing fixes.	2022-04-03 13:48:34 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	ec80c3b000	Reflect this site's CSS improvements ... See parent commit 60bf9110b9 Link: 60bf9110b9	2022-04-03 23:55:04 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	85523c90e5	Add info to color contrast and img optim ... - Elaborate on how contrast needs to be maintained under different conditions like different screens, gamma adjustments, and color blindnesses - Add my skepticism about progressive decoding.	2022-04-02 17:46:35 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	1ecf099145	Elaborate on motivation in intro	2022-04-01 18:59:21 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	cd009197a9	Elaborate on speculative preloading with note on analytics	2022-03-31 18:42:50 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	9fbf3f5138	Mention BBR congestion, streamline quotation citations.	2022-03-31 18:42:13 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	6bb659b2cf	Add TCP-aware opim, reorg ... Describe round-trip aware optimization Move some sections around to flow better.	2022-03-31 18:34:53 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	eb8bb710fc	Layout-shift-avoidance, mention zoom and size-adjustment. ... - Describe how to calculate intrinsic side to avoid layout-shifts caused by CSS Containment - Mention use of relative font sizes. - Replace incorrect use of the word "inline" when describing images.	2022-03-31 18:09:40 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	a5b8b5acc9	Introduce css containment for deferring rendering ... As alternative to lazy loading.	2022-03-31 17:48:58 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	c21a21ea99	Add acknowledgements, note on justified text ... - Say justified alignment is bad - Add acknowledgements to the further-reading section - Formatting in intro	2022-03-30 22:12:16 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	4d0851969e	Fix some invalid HTML	2022-03-30 21:02:39 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	5a4510765c	Elaborate on dark themes, cite WAI, cleanup ... - Cite WAI more - Mention merit of dark image variants - Fix shitty ARIA - use a <dl> list in one place. - Describe use of `prefers-contrast: less` - Narrow screen fixes.	2022-03-30 17:47:13 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	cd622cc85c	Clean up introduction and some phrasing. ... - Give the intro a heading - Make the preface an <aside> with a "doc-preface" DPUB-ARIA role - Move the TOC before the intro - Give the TOC a "doc-toc" DPUB-ARIA role - Provide a TLDR	2022-03-29 19:43:07 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	43a4a6bb1a	Clarify some details about figures, other deets ... - Mention that captions can be repositioned relative to figure content - Edit my captions in light of that fact - Add unformatted/plain-text agents to "future work" - Lowercase a heading	2022-03-29 18:29:07 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	689b6bcc3a	New "Beyond alt-text" section, short viewports ... Describe how to best include images and figures in a way that flows well and is accessible to both sighted and non-sighted users. Describe how sticky elements can be a usability hazard on short viewports - Add changefreq - Clean up structured data for quotations - Add more sample unorthodox tests TODO: dark image variant of image in new "Beyond alt-text" section	2022-03-29 18:26:22 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	df8ba551ff	Add TOC, reduce update freq	2022-03-29 18:19:04 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	3a639537b3	Info about csp, halation ... - Mention pitfalls of a <meta>-based CSP - Describe halation a bit more, with an image.	2022-03-28 18:11:55 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	741dc6ed81	Add some info from Fedi and elsewhere ... Fediverse users gave good feedback, and I found other info elsewhere. - Avoid the system-ui font - Re-clarify article scope (textual websites) - Mention dynamic content injection - Describe saving pages offline - Mention pictures of text versus narrow viewports - Remove unnecessary info on why i removed margins from figures - Mention indentation in preformatted code - Describe appropriate size ranges for inlining images. - Mention possibility of reporting issues in reading mode section - Add info on screen readers changing kb nav to "future updates" - Add info on special keyboard-driven browsers to "future updates" - Describe best-practices for alt-text, figcaptions, and briefly mention transcripts. - Add a conclusion Also fix anchors for headings containing HTML entities and some minor fixes throughout.	2022-03-28 14:56:42 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	cd730698c8	s/most/half/	2022-03-27 21:04:53 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	312ff228db	Mention and accomodate dyscalculia	2022-03-27 17:32:52 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	d2757f99c5	Details for anti-pagination and Tor a11y ... - Pagination hurts searchability - Tor users can't change media queries, so make the site accessible by default.	2022-03-27 17:30:21 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	ccce5c94a9	Inline nav links in print media	2022-03-27 17:24:07 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	6b67668291	Mention inclusive design, tap targets	2022-03-27 17:24:05 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	b0d3189c84	Improve printer-friendliness ... Make max line widths only apply to the "screen" media type.	2022-03-27 17:21:13 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	cb0e8a4be9	Mention some suggestions from Fedi ... Future updates: add braille displays & clear lang. Testing: mention zoom levels and caret navigation.	2022-03-27 17:19:13 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	14ec9c4d2c	Update Fairsearch info ... Thanks Dmitry!	2022-03-27 13:21:50 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	6048e66d1b	Add info on line length ... Introduce a bit more nuance into the WCAG's requirements.	2022-03-27 11:18:25 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	3df423336c	Balance indentation's problems against benefits ... Describe how they help users with hand tremors avoid selecting interactive elements.	2022-03-27 11:16:48 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	07a1b0fb06	Typo	2022-03-27 11:03:10 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	5e93b9d11a	More additions ... - Mention calculation of font metrics - Add related issues to lazy loading - Justify importance of dark themes - Trivial formatting tweak in a <pre> block - Mention OCSP stapling, 0-RTT - Spelling/grammar help machine translation - Add more details to "future work" section - Acknowledge Axess Lab	2022-03-26 16:44:57 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	6a42905002	Typos and fixes ... - Hyperlink "h-card" on the Web version of the page - Forgot to pluralize a word - s/phrasing/non-phrasing/	2022-03-26 16:39:24 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	ceb19c9308	Re-org web best practices article ... - Add a TOC - Remove the flamebait bulleted list at the top - Move link underlines section up by one - Some formatting	2022-03-26 16:35:19 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	422369ea4f	Fix escaped tags in <pre>, remove redundancy	2022-03-26 12:31:51 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	53f4aedf45	info for sec-tests, switch-access, keybot.	2022-03-26 12:31:48 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	391e0b64c5	Move Kozmonavt to "site-finders" category.	2022-03-26 12:31:37 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	a1a33e14ea	Add machine translation notes, proofread	2022-03-25 17:44:10 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	91d2a6567a	Search engines: mention Bloopish might be down	2022-03-21 08:09:34 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	6b402b6ec1	Another typo, formatting	2022-03-20 16:25:46 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	7d3ca83479	Typo	2022-03-20 16:24:14 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	4607ec2d95	Better example of bad custom colors ... Add a better screenshot showcasing bad custom colors. Also give it a figcaption. The figcaption meant that I had to revise a statement later down when I said I don't use figcaptions for images.	2022-03-20 16:09:01 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	dd9e791d18	Add You.com under Bing, remove ask.moe ... Ask.moe uses Google Custom Search now, so it's not a search engine anymore; it's a search client. Lots of people asked about You.com so I put it under Bing.	2022-03-20 11:07:06 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	c6a6e55ede	Add conclusion and criteria for inclusion	2022-03-19 13:42:29 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	013d382f27	Mention "skip links"	2022-03-19 13:40:08 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	458f516655	New engine: Fairsearch	2022-03-19 13:37:11 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	71f1e6fb00	Correction: Bing/Yandex don't need signin either	2022-03-19 12:57:59 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	9f8e41cdb6	Correction: Google submissions don't need sign-in	2022-03-19 11:43:12 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	a027123cd9	Phrasing fix: replace "above" following page reorg ... The search tests are no longer "above" the changed sentence so it shouldn't say "above".	2022-03-17 23:45:53 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	a7e48a35d4	Add Gnomit search engine	2022-03-17 23:43:50 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	1524b40c4a	Mention compatible SVG implementations	2022-03-17 23:37:22 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	fdfd53c3e5	Typo	2022-03-17 23:35:04 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	648771480e	Describe SVG optimization, rephrasings	2022-03-17 23:34:59 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	3bb8f89f74	Phrasing fixes	2022-03-17 23:32:15 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	9098dd5d9a	Describe dark image variants and optimized loading	2022-03-17 23:31:31 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	208b0fe43e	Add info on non-browsers and TLS terminators	2022-03-16 17:09:21 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	cd124986ab	Add recommendations for narrow viewports ... These recommendations also included stuff for <figure> elements; in the spirit of dogfooding, I used some <figure> elements where appropriate elsewhere in the page.	2022-03-16 17:08:43 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	4d8daf5aa5	Add nonbreaking spaces before version numbers ... "WCAG 2.2" shouldn't be broken up; a new line shouldn't start with "2.2". "WCAG 2.2" should be treated as one word.	2022-03-16 17:00:43 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	66833dc93e	Improve narrow screen compat ... - Replace long <code> snippets - Add some soft hyphens. - Make one image of text look better on a narrow viewport.	2022-03-16 16:52:03 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	988d278b14	Formatting, info on contrast+halation, Tor notes ... - Describe how contrast overkill in dark mode can cause halation - Add more info on compatibility with the Tor browser - Mention the rationale for a custom image border color - More accurately note how in addition to fontconfig mappings, I also set my browser preferred font to "sans-serif". - Clarify that underlines help identify both the beginnings and ends of hyperlinks. - Formatting/phrasing fixes, esp in Gemtext.	2022-03-16 16:49:03 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	5575e2149d	Clarify use of WCAG, update sample CSP	2022-03-16 16:42:31 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	12a6c098f7	Add a11y justifications with citations ... Cite the WCAG's supplementary techniques as justification for some recommendations.	2022-03-16 16:40:04 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	857fc53679	Add info on TLS and a11y ... - Recommend reading the WCAG and supplementary information on WCAG techniques - Recommend against broken TLS ciphers.	2022-03-15 17:23:57 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	df51ccc57b	Add Bloopish, kaz.kz, SOLOFIELD. Minor rephrasings	2022-03-15 17:23:28 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	0aefb5d083	Add info on lazy-loading, rephrasings.	2022-03-14 13:50:01 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	f93637455d	More info on biases and structured data ... - Expand "rationale" with info on bias - "rationale" got bigger so I added sub-headings - Move "rationale" section to the bottom since its increased size pushed away the actual engines	2022-03-10 17:11:49 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	ac645a12a7	Add note on engine bias ... In response to the flood of traffic I got after DuckDuckGo's announcement.	2022-03-10 15:29:00 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	f8718e68f3	Add Fediring Orbit to gemini capsule	2022-03-08 22:19:50 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	f589e3f306	Make homepage h-card representative	2022-03-08 12:11:18 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	3e290a08db	Add GMX and Fireball	2022-03-07 22:44:34 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	4b6cfbb9ed	Add bookmarks page ... Pulls content exported from Buku, so I don't have to commit every time I add a bookmark. Since I added another nav item, I had to adjust the navbar css.	2022-03-07 22:40:26 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	86b4012ec0	Mention Brutalist Web Design	2022-03-04 13:55:35 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	760bec2959	Add Toutiao	2022-03-03 19:40:18 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	a6e3ee6e20	New Turkish engine	2022-03-01 20:25:38 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	65c8710b61	RIP Meorca, add info on 3p sources to Brave.	2022-03-01 14:42:59 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	e0a42eeaf2	Add Keybot search engine	2022-03-01 11:48:32 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	028a720186	New engines: semantic scholar, SSEL ... Add Semantic Scholar and Secret Search Engine Labs.	2022-03-01 00:35:54 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	d4266900c8	Typo ... Right on the homepage. Damn.	2022-02-28 13:50:22 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	e121529f5e	Mention the ask.com network	2022-02-28 13:42:15 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	3c00cfd4e8	Internal: markdown extension for adding link attrs ... More concise than using <a> every time i need to add an attr to a link	2022-02-28 13:41:24 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	e06c33d2f9	Improve meta description	2022-02-28 02:30:58 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	03e45ae848	Mention visited link color	2022-02-28 02:30:48 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	3cf4bd7191	Elaborate on Mojeek and friendly exclusions.	2022-02-27 15:09:28 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	62b507b738	Remove bad use of <cite>	2022-02-27 11:29:25 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	14f2053fc1	Style: reduce horizontal scroll, element borders ... All pages should now look good on screens 230px wide (DPR=1), inc. most feature-phones running e.g. KaiOS. Add borders to images so they look distinct from the surrounding page.	2022-02-26 17:18:44 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	0fc698cdff	Add missing description	2022-02-26 17:18:31 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	4bc0d54ecb	Expand and re-locate "methodology" section	2022-02-26 17:15:14 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	eca3aa9fbb	Sitemap fixes	2022-02-26 01:55:34 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	892c27516a	Link to WCAG 2.2 instead of 2.0	2022-02-26 01:54:26 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	4ca5fed1e9	Better citations	2022-02-26 01:05:44 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	5612220b77	Mention exclusions	2022-02-25 23:43:22 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	d745d65152	New engine: Kagi Search	2022-02-25 20:01:50 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	1201c64d38	Re-vamp "non-generalist search" section. ... - Add a couple new engines to non-gen search - Move search.tl to non-gen search - Split non-gen search into subsections.	2022-02-25 19:49:11 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	29ae0f3115	Web practices: link underlines are good.	2022-02-24 23:00:49 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	f5101cbc69	Linkify some text for further info ... - Add link to tweet stating that Bedrock Edition removed debug symbols - Add link to sandbox-app-launcher	2022-02-24 21:53:37 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	6e855bb193	Moar linked/structured data ... - Add copyrightOwner microdata - Add person/h-card markup for some more people	2022-02-24 17:55:44 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	97d640a514	First-party link to Black Hat presentation	2022-02-22 22:37:53 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	c203c7f099	Remove avatars from body text ... I decided I don't like them	2022-02-22 22:17:13 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	b66a782aa1	Support indieweb avatars	2022-02-22 21:48:10 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	e1484ecb78	Update Neeva info to reflect free tier ... Thanks Akumei!	2022-02-22 18:24:36 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	8e16576d2a	Rephrase	2022-02-22 12:54:10 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	0828a82f8a	Add some counter-args from Patience and ddevault ... thanks y'all	2022-02-22 12:49:51 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	24e21342f4	Mention source dececptiveness	2022-02-22 11:32:46 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	779cccc3a3	New Gemini search engine: AuraGem	2022-02-20 23:59:02 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	c399e82858	Mention OneSearch, a Yahoo+Bing-based engine ... Since it got added to some Searx instances I figured I should mention it.	2022-02-21 00:00:29 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	d323b3a298	New upcoming search engine: Ahrefs	2022-02-20 15:58:45 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	b2639c2596	Fix closing tags ... Fix missing closing tags, or closing tags placed out of order.	2022-02-19 15:20:16 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	c03af0eacc	Use new "indieweb-person" shortcode ... This should reduce a lot of repetition. Supports first/last names, nicknames, generic names that don't conform to first/last norms, and has basic support for affiliated organizations. Also snuck in more info on website colors to the web best practices article, inc. a link to Chris' Wiki.	2022-02-19 12:48:53 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	4feeb7ef0f	Fix typo, add microdata	2022-02-18 00:42:17 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	bdc302aafd	Fix nav data ... - Uppercase - Add standard metada to "about" page.	2022-02-16 21:25:34 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	e9ace710eb	New search engine: Siik ... How do I keep stumbling across these? I've run into a bunch lately by sheer coincidence.	2022-02-16 21:17:48 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	a894a32b5c	Fix some microdata	2022-02-15 11:25:32 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	48103805a5	Update Infotiger info ... Infotiger has changed a lot in the past months, and my description of the engine was quite outdated.	2022-02-15 11:21:35 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	cdecf4be9a	Strip useless <nav>.	2022-02-15 11:13:09 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	d8cb28d1db	Use navlinks to navigate previous posts in series ... This requires making <nav> *not* display inline except for the unstyled-list navlinks. This should also do a better job at appeasing reader modes. For the same reason, also make one link a citation	2022-02-14 17:24:40 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	be9bcd000d	Use <var> elements instead of <code> for variables	2022-02-13 16:07:28 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	5734bc49c4	New engine: Entfer	2022-02-13 16:07:16 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	589544cd6c	Fix: unique html ID	2022-02-11 16:11:58 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	935b55f10f	New engine: Alexandria.org ... Gowiki is down, move it to the graveyard Add Alexandria in its place.	2022-02-11 16:07:15 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	5ba82ea53d	Put <dfn> in own paragraph	2022-02-11 14:53:44 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	21c623d62b	Search engines: add Artado Search	2022-02-08 22:39:09 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	65ad38d559	Fix broken links/anchors	2022-02-07 21:26:03 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	87f82b70e3	New engine: sengine.info	2022-02-07 20:31:57 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	df6bb716ec	Forgot to delete a dupe paragraph	2022-02-07 17:50:16 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	616d91e0a8	Clarify the tradeoffs of closed-source ... - Explain how FLOSS can allow transparency into the development processes - Give examples of proprietary software that's more secure - Make the conclusion just a little more detailed.	2022-02-07 17:23:02 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	de4a742620	Use <dfn> elements	2022-02-06 22:24:11 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	b0280c058c	Link to SRE frameworks, minor rephrasings	2022-02-06 22:23:59 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	106b81c428	New search engine: search.marginalia.nu ... Thanks Cadence.	2022-02-05 18:08:45 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	2e4e174f0f	Make links to previous posts more prominent	2022-02-04 14:24:23 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	cf86ee64db	New secondary matrix account	2022-02-04 13:19:47 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	e027d82b52	Add more info about fuzzing ... - Add counter-arg about how source improves fuzzing - Add quote from Daniel Stenberg about fuzzing cURL.	2022-02-04 13:01:38 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	42c87d6970	Add a summarizing statement to conclusion ... Explicity state that security is determined through study, regardless of source model. Also fix some whitespace.	2022-02-04 11:16:05 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	77d003a640	Incorporate feedback: ME obfusc., static analysis ... Thanks to zdctg on the #security IRC channel at libera.chat, and to X_Cli on lemmy.ml	2022-02-04 00:36:38 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	10b582e57b	Update information about Qwant	2022-02-03 22:46:56 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	13ffd6209c	Expand acronym	2022-02-03 22:33:48 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	65ef073088	Link to oss-security thread on CVE-2022-0185	2022-02-03 22:29:46 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	bbfcef2370	More minor rephrasings	2022-02-03 19:23:12 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	eb6d909539	Minor wording fixes	2022-02-03 18:31:13 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	646b123f57	Fix bad link	2022-02-03 15:21:52 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	6ade75e4cd	New post: FLOSS doesn't imply security	2022-02-03 15:21:42 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	fdec7951fe	Fix resume ... Fix some resume details and put its file in a subdir.	2022-01-05 16:02:47 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	82036d0df9	Fix PGP link	2021-12-28 11:26:49 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	17c3fb568d	Add translation of whatsapp article	2021-12-13 15:26:03 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	4fdc39c7e7	Don't hyperlink my old mxid	2021-12-01 22:03:13 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	385a18bbd9	Link to MOAC in blog post	2021-12-01 22:01:21 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	fb36ad9587	Migrate matrix account, update profile	2021-11-29 22:36:43 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	822cc31d5c	Mention ExactSeek sibling engines	2021-10-21 18:23:41 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	d6b40e2f21	Search engines: remove dupe entry	2021-10-14 12:29:42 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	fb4b3f165b	Search engines: mention Kagi, rm dead link	2021-10-14 12:25:27 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	37d7f6adba	Petal uses 3p indexes in certain jurisdictions	2021-10-03 18:56:23 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	69aef63c86	Update whatsapp article with follow-up link @top	2021-10-03 13:38:07 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	77a74d73bf	Search engines: add semi-independent engine Neeva	2021-08-30 15:43:24 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	0d2d25b124	Fix: use HTTPS links where possible	2021-08-16 17:48:36 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	4779f2fa60	Update search engines ... - Remove goo.ne.jp since it uses Google - Create "Graveyard" section and move wbsrch to it 🪦 - Restore link to Crawlson since it's back up	2021-08-09 09:27:26 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	2d908e688d	Clarify attributions	2021-08-05 00:47:11 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	1e313cfdc9	Add footer heading	2021-08-05 00:42:59 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	f6413346af	Web best practices: add "security" section ... Add information on restricting site functionality. Add some details on accomodating Tor users.	2021-07-31 17:36:18 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	9e3a6f328b	Update "about" page: age, anime faves ... According to multiple sources, Seirdy apparently turned 21 a while ago. Also added an entry to anime fave list. Rephrase statement on Matrix availability.	2021-07-14 12:43:23 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	02dc7822ec	Web best practices: dark themes: Mention OLEDs ... OLED displays use less energy when displaying darker colors.	2021-07-06 09:21:47 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	7ccf84f031	Web best practices: async decode + fingerprinting ... - Mention image async decoding - Describe how width-selector use can enable JS-free viewport fingerprinting	2021-07-02 20:37:24 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	322e7ef575	Search engines: remove dead link to burf.co	2021-06-28 14:52:55 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	3ee9f1b90d	Add note about Epic Search going paid-only	2021-06-28 10:41:54 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	fd7b59e576	Update homepage	2021-06-27 18:51:25 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	da87f981a2	Web best practices: link to two other places ... Link to the XHTML Club and an article by Bill Dietrich.	2021-06-27 17:37:29 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	aae653056d	Web best practices: link to ECT	2021-06-27 17:02:45 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	5511b354c4	Web best practices: mention Tor users ... Simple sites should work well with the Tor Browser.	2021-06-27 15:26:01 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	4effcd52da	Formatting	2021-06-22 22:37:06 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	ddeeb36248	Correct error about Brave ... New info from Solso on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27596830	2021-06-22 22:31:48 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	140ea2d319	Add Brave, fix dated info, DDG misconceptions ... - New category: "semi-independent indexes". Contains Brave and Plumb. - Mention that Quor is down - Fix outdated statement on Plumb's hCaptcha - Clarify some misconceptions about DDG	2021-06-22 10:22:00 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	e660a132c2	New engine (Goo) + more engine info ... Thanks N. A. Ferrell for feedback!	2021-06-17 20:17:48 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	99e402f133	Clean up some relative urls again	2021-06-16 12:18:01 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	204600fae3	Fix relative URLs ... - No relative URLs in the RSS feed except plain anchor links - Eliminate the need for excessive "../" in URLs.	2021-06-14 15:31:08 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	8607612e0a	Add recommendations for dark themes	2021-06-13 18:28:15 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	155d4f7b91	Update FLoC article to reflect changed stance ... Turns out there's a valid reason to use FLoC.	2021-06-11 15:08:29 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	02b2345e83	Update search engines ... - Add ChatNoir, Ninfex - Mark Runnaroo as discontinued	2021-05-29 15:57:12 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	0b72929cfd	Clarify IRC networks I'm on	2021-05-29 00:58:00 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	7bfd5a1538	Fix PGP ID name ... Key unchanged, just change the name I gave it.	2021-05-20 23:11:18 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	3cb61af6e7	New search engine: "Infotiger"	2021-05-12 11:27:06 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	5374e18afc	Gemini: Add a link to a Gemini orbit	2021-04-29 12:27:43 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	0d3b978676	Add sentence summarizing privacy impl. of opt-out	2021-04-28 10:34:14 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	04316a1266	New engine: Burf.co	2021-04-23 02:51:49 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	d01bcc1971	Clarification on exclusion from cohort calculation ... Being excluded from cohort calculation doesn't necessarily make users less unique.	2021-04-17 13:20:31 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	2ae6abbd82	Make the post a bit less finger-pointy ... - Mention another time that it's in response to online discussions/comments, not the authors of certain blog posts - Clarify that there's nothing wrong with adding this header to your site if you manage your expectations and DON'T accuse others of complicity or change upstream software	2021-04-17 11:28:52 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	dba315efce	Add segment about Do Not Track	2021-04-16 22:31:59 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	28f70689a4	Remove superfluous sentence	2021-04-16 21:25:30 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	d868be3da0	Clarify source of misinfo	2021-04-16 21:24:24 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	32181efa19	Clarify what opting out actually entails	2021-04-16 20:51:38 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	7429b31fec	Add gemtext version of FLoC article	2021-04-16 20:34:52 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	1e7f1260d7	Add footnotes with clarifications	2021-04-16 18:50:34 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	30bf11b8ba	Typo: s/server/software/	2021-04-16 18:30:46 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	fb03d7ba4c	New post: Permissions Policy and FLoC misinfo	2021-04-16 18:06:22 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	a729dc565c	New engine: Kozmonavt	2021-04-14 12:31:45 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	d6bfdbd388	New engine: go.mail.ru	2021-03-31 13:21:38 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	68dc2da442	New search engine: Yioop	2021-03-29 23:08:28 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	7c39739ed9	Add some info about Plumb ... I contacted Adam from Plumb for more info and updated the section on Plumb search.	2021-03-20 23:09:14 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	864292c7e4	Add "Rationale" and info from Matt ... Matt from Gigablast answered some of my questions; I updated the article with information from him. Some of that information found its way to the "Rationale" section.	2021-03-20 13:28:59 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	a65526b887	Add more details about some search engines	2021-03-19 23:25:52 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	f83a996318	Add info on relationship between Plumb and Gibiru	2021-03-19 19:10:27 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	f08de57e81	Reword	2021-03-19 17:00:27 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	e9fc43a4ee	New search engine: Plumb	2021-03-19 16:48:23 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	a81e185b7d	CI/Makefile: reduce zopfli compression even more ... 70 iterations seems to be the point at which we hit diminishing returns. The combined size difference of all *.gz files with 70 iterations and 1000 iterations is 65 bytes.	2021-03-17 15:06:08 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	b5e8d35373	Clarify alternatives that support limiting by TLD ... In the info for search.tl, clarify that its single-TLD search isn't a unique feature; Google and Bing support a search operator to achieve the same result.	2021-03-17 14:35:13 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	f40862bc89	Add two search engines, minor fixes ... - Two new engines: search.tl and Anoox - Replace some HTTP with HTTPS - Add an <abbr> tag - Spelling/capitalization	2021-03-17 13:38:00 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	bd6d3732a2	New engine: Meorca	2021-03-16 11:15:50 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	58b64c9a95	Mention ELinks, Netrik ... They're not very actively maintained, but they're still good for testing.	2021-03-15 11:19:50 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	b796592848	Typo: s/Runaroo/Runnaroo/g	2021-03-13 21:23:29 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	21f6c0c02a	Add info about wbsrch's per-lang indexes	2021-03-13 13:47:01 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	ab92d8ded6	Add Search My Site ... Reader-contributed. Thanks for the suggestion!	2021-03-12 13:07:17 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	b93b8ac9c2	Clarify an initialism with <abbr>	2021-03-11 14:46:34 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	15d84dff38	Add missing heading to gemtext	2021-03-11 14:46:24 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	5d425f58ac	Add search engines for the Gemini Space	2021-03-10 18:38:56 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	d75c2877f5	Mention that Gowiki is only available in the US ... Thanks @zudn@theres.life	2021-03-10 15:25:36 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	9d75a5d681	Add mising description	2021-03-10 14:00:08 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	83e6689b83	New article: search engines with their own indexes ... Squashed commit of the following: commit f04ef91062 Author: Rohan Kumar <seirdy@seirdy.one> Date: Wed Mar 10 13:47:35 2021 -0800 Final draft commit db25b73460 Author: Rohan Kumar <seirdy@seirdy.one> Date: Wed Mar 10 13:37:35 2021 -0800 Add gemtext version commit de8c4f1f28 Author: Rohan Kumar <seirdy@seirdy.one> Date: Wed Mar 10 12:52:20 2021 -0800 New article (draft): search engines	2021-03-10 13:48:19 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	5ea5ee72cb	Update some article tags	2021-03-10 12:51:44 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	09676af2ca	Fix some site headings	2021-03-10 12:50:57 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	0915928e21	Clarify why web components made Pale Moon migrate ... Clarify that WC aren't (strictly speaking) problematic; they're just too complex for them to implement.	2021-03-02 23:19:42 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	2a87923bcc	Update FLOSS-related terminology ... New terminology (with a footnote for more background) reduces confusion and clarifies the difference between different viewpoints in this space. Thanks to RMS for providing feedback.	2021-03-02 23:04:04 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	2030e221d7	Add more details about image compression ... - Include a sample command - Describe my approach to deciding on the level of compression/cropping	2021-02-28 13:33:24 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	7efe60a6bc	Stylistic fixes (minor) ... Nothing new, just re-phrasing and capitalization.	2021-02-28 12:52:48 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	fe12f0dc32	Add link to avifenc	2021-02-28 12:40:26 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	13db509ea3	Add idea for website testing: site translation	2021-02-28 12:34:59 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	07e19edbaf	Incorporate feedback from TWIM discussion ... This article received some good feedback from #twim:matrix.org in Matrix. Some clarifications I made: - @cos:hacklab.fi mentioned that Element/Synapse are open-source; I opened the article by mentioning that FOSS alone isn't enough and added a note on their complexity to the matrix/element case-study - @sorunome:sorunome.de mentioned that there is no "reference implementation" of Matrix; I rephrased a sentence to state that Element "practically serves as the reference client implementation". - Clarify that Element builds "most of" the spec instead of being in charge of it; the Spec Core Team (SCT) is a different entity but is made mostly of Element employees. - Changed leaving implementations out of decisions to leaving implementation feasibility out of decisions.	2021-02-26 12:54:56 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	3f31e90605	Link to follow-up post	2021-02-25 14:36:29 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	7077b37976	Small elaboration on Moxie's post + style fixes ... - Give a sentence its own paragraph since it had a different topic from the rest of the paragraph - s/really much/much/ - Add a little to describe Moxie's viewpoint, following some feedback I got on IRC and Lobsters.	2021-02-24 12:32:42 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	e97107e852	Link to primary instead of secondary source ... Thanks shivaram for the feedback	2021-02-23 22:07:48 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	a189305ee4	Indieweb: support legacy microformats v1	2021-02-23 15:12:54 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	9a7d1c1872	Add missing acknowledgement	2021-02-23 15:06:01 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	0078cc895e	Gemtext formatting: missing line break	2021-02-23 12:05:11 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	25801afd42	New post: "Keeping platforms open"	2021-02-23 11:55:05 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	4f9250c69e	Add Spanish translation	2021-02-21 17:22:48 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	3d6fd9eb9b	Add new article translation (Romanian) ... Thanks, Licaon_Kter!	2021-02-13 20:14:57 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	c54743e740	Update resume	2021-02-10 19:45:04 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	727d6cca5e	Add Framablog's French translation ... Thank you so much, Framalang!	2021-02-04 10:49:02 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	b9d9241f3b	Add selected projects to "About" page	2021-02-03 15:33:52 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	93846a469b	Clarify that WhatsApp isn't unique ... The Hacker News discussion revealed that the article implies WhatsApp is unique, when it really isn't. It was simply topical.	2021-01-31 22:16:44 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	51c84cebf1	Fix some insensitive Americentrism ... Didn't realize my unconscious bias. Thanks to bambax and elif on HN for pointing that out.	2021-01-31 19:17:41 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	0caabb4e44	Link to Russian translation ... Thank you so much, Evgeny!	2021-01-30 15:40:57 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	81b9e58942	Add + respond to a good comment from @paulsnar ... Thanks for the feedback	2021-01-29 12:06:41 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	36a95f894a	Update preferred approach to image processing ... - Include AVIF - Include dark/light variants if applicable	2021-01-28 13:10:40 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	790f7f70ef	Article update: mention brotli ... Brotli support is more prevalent than zstd	2021-01-28 12:20:23 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	dc4d0dd20e	Fix detail in resume	2021-01-28 12:10:03 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	d3055b270e	Add note on free calls increasing adoption ... Thanks to @ufrafecy@lemmy.ml for pointing that out.	2021-01-28 10:57:04 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	c0461ebfcb	Fix bullet formatting	2021-01-27 18:25:44 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	19bcadab01	Add a link to an archived copy of a tweet	2021-01-27 16:37:39 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	5bd359caf2	New article: WhatsApp & the domestication of users	2021-01-27 16:24:23 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	ba9e86d3f0	Add resume	2021-01-27 16:12:24 -08:00
earnest ma	280e8f1515	Fix link to music.txt from about page ... Should prevent a 404 to music.txt from the envs mirror at https://envs.net/~seirdy/about.html	2021-01-24 20:21:10 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	a078d6a9ee	Reformat markdown with mdfmt	2021-01-24 14:42:40 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	f8113605c2	Shorten alt-text to recommended <100 char limit	2021-01-20 15:47:27 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	f2d41c1c32	Metadata: Improve microformats + microdata ... - Wrap the <a> in a <span> to make the h-entry expose an author URL (link to homepage). Useful for sending Webmentions. - Switch from schema.org/Article to schema.org/BlogPosting	2021-01-19 22:13:16 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	10a29a8196	Mention exhaustive key searches	2021-01-17 23:59:09 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	6f610238f7	Explicitly clarify types of passwords ... Explicitly limit the scope of the article to just passwords used in encryption/decryption.	2021-01-17 23:49:12 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	4d297de4ea	Allow adding a heading to the endnotes section	2021-01-17 17:18:02 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	4ed4e495f2	Gemtext fixes ... - Add link text - Remove extraneous line break	2021-01-17 13:37:16 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	0085518b41	Re-word statement on not detailing crypto algos	2021-01-17 11:41:34 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	f22692d836	Fixed misconception about salting/hashing ... Clarify that salting + hashing isn't reversible by a naive brute-force attack.	2021-01-17 10:47:21 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	56410531fe	Correct information regarding symmetric keys ... I forgot to add salt. Thanks u/RisenSteam.	2021-01-16 20:51:04 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	ec667c9f3e	About page: add Tildes.net account.	2021-01-16 15:44:25 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	4c7eaf91f0	More in further reading/acknowledgements (+typo) ... - Add link to a paper by Seth Lloyd to "Further reading" - Add a subheading to "Further reading" concerning approaches accounting for computation speed. - Elaborate on the part of Schneier's blog post that proved helpful. - Revert typo fix in which I erroneously swapped + and -.	2021-01-16 15:41:49 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	fd15c33a72	Acknowledgements: link to Schneier's blog	2021-01-14 22:49:21 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	a87410e831	Link to TLDR at the top	2021-01-14 18:40:26 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	ad6d2078fe	Clarify the meaning of being "immune" ... As suggested by u/DragonCalypso on Reddit.	2021-01-14 15:13:02 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	7769286085	Typo + wrong name	2021-01-14 15:11:07 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	fd257cfd7e	Add sample unbreakable passwords	2021-01-13 14:27:44 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	f479d03733	Typo	2021-01-13 11:20:55 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	eb1a03f4be	Fix major typo (wrong sign, + -> -)	2021-01-12 23:16:36 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	069bedbb7b	Password strength article: shrink meta description ... A <meta> description should apparently be under 160 chars.	2021-01-12 22:05:05 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	b60b478281	Add link to Bremermann's limit ... Found via goldenkey on Hacker News.	2021-01-12 18:13:45 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	f2d4fe84ca	Fix bad link	2021-01-12 15:59:38 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	4c2c2802ba	New article: password strength	2021-01-12 15:32:35 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	8a1903c85b	Update fav anime in about page ... Let's all love Lain.	2021-01-03 03:21:58 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	2083f1aed5	Article update: include advice on avatar image ... Include info on using an avatar image/profile photo without significantly increasing the footprint of a website, by re-using the favicon image.	2020-12-29 22:34:35 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	762ac1bf1f	Fix PGP links ... - Fix bad PGP links for envs.net mirror - Include pgp links in <head> for IndieWeb (as per https://indieweb.org/PGP)	2020-12-29 22:30:11 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	1e7b2008e8	Indieweb: add u-photo and h-entry where relevant ... Inspired by the h-entry implementation on Charlie Owen's personal website: https://whalecoiner.com The u-photo re-uses the 32px favicon that the browser has already cached, so it shouldn't bloat up the page anymore. These changes required a bit of additional CSS. I snuck in come color changes too.	2020-12-29 15:06:51 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	a900b814b7	Indieweb: add PGP key to h-entry	2020-12-29 10:05:07 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	35642e698a	Add Indieweb/RDFa structured data	2020-12-28 16:56:52 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	8c63605d1a	Add 10 KB Club to web best practices article	2020-12-28 15:33:18 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	b48bd871a7	Increase padding/tap-targets ... - Adding more detail to the bulleted list in /about.html makes it easier to tap links since they're further apart - Pad code frames a bit	2020-12-23 17:04:40 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	8fdee5d244	Include layout in web best practices ... Article update: decribe good layout in the website best practices article.	2020-12-21 16:41:46 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	6331840d95	Fix bad link ... Sourcehut updated its per-object log URLs	2020-12-20 12:57:59 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	b9e4be50f5	Metadata: description + cache-bust manifest icons ... - Add a cache-busting fingerprint to all the icons in the webmanifest - Add a <meta> and open graph tag for a description. - Include a 512px icon in the manifest	2020-12-19 17:50:55 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	ac0ced6aac	Article fix: put <body> in backticks ... <body> was getting interpreted as an HTML tag instead of text.	2020-12-18 18:42:03 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	5e77a0d7f3	Use a smaller image in an article	2020-12-18 18:33:13 -08:00
rohan kumar	3368f8fea9	Update web best practices article: add testing ... - Add information about testing edge cases - Re-word some long sentences	2020-12-16 18:53:24 -08:00
rohan kumar	d45926c0f4	CLS: Declare original image dimensions in HTML ... Reduce Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS) by declaring original image dimensions in HTML before re-scaling with CSS. This tells browsers the image's aspect ratio before the image and the stylesheet load, allowing browsers to block out space accordingly to avoid making elements "jump" during loading. More info: https://web.dev/optimize-cls/	2020-12-15 23:09:45 -08:00
rohan kumar	af6ece0e10	Add some more metadata for widgets + indieweb ... - Add open graph metadata for other apps to display link previews - Add more rel="me" metadata for the Indieweb. Getting on the Indieweb will take some time, but this is a good first step.	2020-12-15 23:05:45 -08:00
rohan kumar	50ca441f7d	About: more details about identities	2020-12-11 12:02:02 -08:00
rohan kumar	925b8960a8	Add missing <h1> tags	2020-11-30 17:19:33 -08:00
rohan kumar	bab75dcebc	Clarify HTTP Observatory scores	2020-11-30 12:09:22 -08:00
rohan kumar	4907336d96	Add bit about alt-text, clarify page size	2020-11-30 12:04:21 -08:00
rohan kumar	46512c9046	Update with feedback on page size ... Added the Web Bloat Size Calculator and a snippet on how people on trains experience a connection speed drops. Thanks, u/Snapstromegon from Reddit!	2020-11-27 10:25:03 -08:00
rohan kumar	8e38c66243	Add pngquant to image compression section ... Thanks, arnt and vbernat!	2020-11-25 21:58:37 -08:00
rohan kumar	1ba46835be	Clarification on HTTP/2 ... Thanks, reezer!	2020-11-25 16:36:40 -08:00
rohan kumar	b9207d17ea	Add max line length to web best practices article ... Thanks, u/_listless	2020-11-24 15:32:38 -08:00
rohan kumar	7bfd40e843	Fix bad dead on homepage	2020-11-24 14:25:52 -08:00
rohan kumar	103a860528	Link to article changelog	2020-11-24 14:24:12 -08:00
rohan kumar	d24cdfb423	Link to MDN docs on CSS @media queries	2020-11-24 14:19:20 -08:00
rohan kumar	a1f517c61a	Clarify that branding isn't evil	2020-11-24 10:58:05 -08:00
rohan kumar	2d43a0ddc4	Clarify a snippet on overriding stylesheets ... We shouldn't require users to override stylesheets, but we should expect it.	2020-11-24 10:53:22 -08:00
rohan kumar	8f47970379	More info about fingerprinting via fonts	2020-11-24 04:54:13 -08:00
rohan kumar	f1a56e9ec4	Explain why global stylesheet overrides are bad	2020-11-24 03:50:06 -08:00
rohan kumar	79b91972e7	Add more info on image optimization	2020-11-24 03:18:03 -08:00
rohan kumar	7ec5eab8eb	Clarify the controversial statement on font choice ... The lobste.rs discussion at https://lobste.rs/s/akcw1m/opinionated_list_best_practices_for generated a lot of feedback about fonts, so I thought I'd explain a bit more.	2020-11-24 02:43:59 -08:00
rohan kumar	2cd686a4fb	Add gzip + http2 to website best practices	2020-11-24 02:27:17 -08:00
rohan kumar	6f937ac5a8	Clarify the point of using HTML->md convertors ... Thanks to some IRC users for pointing out how the rationale wasn't very obvious	2020-11-24 01:59:22 -08:00
rohan kumar	e538b0df8e	Fix: s/white-on-black/black-on-white/	2020-11-23 22:56:18 -08:00
rohan kumar	839e6d5737	Update website best practices with color info ... Thanks to a couple IRC users for the feedback.	2020-11-23 19:00:31 -08:00
rohan kumar	dbab08560f	Fix: remove draft post status from gemlog entry	2020-11-23 17:13:48 -08:00
rohan kumar	18ff772d5f	New article: best practices for minimalistic websites	2020-11-23 15:51:57 -08:00
rohan kumar	a40097955c	Link to proj. hub instead of git repo on sourcehut	2020-11-19 20:35:59 -08:00
rohan kumar	910dd01346	Off-by-one error	2020-11-19 12:23:18 -08:00
rohan kumar	1ca50266e2	Gemini: Blog -> Gemlog, include Music ... Since my Gemini homepage is a bit more sparse, I figured it wouldn't hurt to add a link to my music.txt file.	2020-11-18 22:55:50 -08:00
rohan kumar	73591727c8	Fix date	2020-11-18 18:31:17 -08:00
rohan kumar	9fb0545ebc	New post: Resilient Git, part 1	2020-11-18 18:25:33 -08:00
rohan kumar	97ef147b69	New post: Git Workflow, part 0 ... Thanks to my IRC buds for initial feedback	2020-11-17 13:54:22 -08:00
rohan kumar	4cd8387dd7	Fix outdated inaugaral gemini post	2020-11-05 15:48:35 -08:00
rohan kumar	6c4c58886a	CI: deploy website to multiple locations ... Create a quick shell script that can deploy to localhost, my tilde (staging), or seirdy.one.	2020-11-03 19:52:42 -08:00
rohan kumar	beb174c66b	Add build manifest ... If this doesn't work I am going to do something regrettable to my laptop.	2020-11-03 16:22:19 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	d364a8fb9f	Batman!! (this commit has no parents) ... The sight of an animal using a JavaScript captivates Computer Scientists and laymen alike, perhaps because it forces us to question some of our ideas about human uniqueness. Does the animal know how JavaScript works? Did it anticipate the need for the tool and select it instead of Haskell or Zig? To some, this fascination with JavaScript seems arbitrary and anthropocentric; after all, animals engage in many other complex activities, like Agile Planning and ordering Juice on the Internet. However, we know that complex behaviour need not be cognitively demanding. JavaScript development can therefore provide a powerful window into the minds of animals, and help us to learn what capacities we share with them — and what might have changed to allow for the incontrovertibly unique levels of technology shown by modern humans, such as integers and block scope.	2020-11-03 15:52:34 -08:00