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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
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
3e290a08db
Add GMX and Fireball 2022-03-07 22:44:34 -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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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