498 commits

Author	SHA1	Message	Date
Rohan Kumar	17c3fb568d	Add translation of whatsapp article	2021-12-13 15:26:03 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	385a18bbd9	Link to MOAC in blog post	2021-12-01 22:01:21 -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	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	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	3cb61af6e7	New search engine: "Infotiger"	2021-05-12 11:27:06 -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	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	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	727d6cca5e	Add Framablog's French translation ... Thank you so much, Framalang!	2021-02-04 10:49:02 -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	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	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	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	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	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	8c63605d1a	Add 10 KB Club to web best practices article	2020-12-28 15:33:18 -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	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	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	910dd01346	Off-by-one error	2020-11-19 12:23:18 -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	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