RSS is better than ActivityPub.
When I subscribe to content, I want:
Resilient failsafes. ActivityPub has many points-of-failure. A notification might fail to complete transmission as a result of downtime, faults, or network conditions, and the receiving server might never know. A feed
standards,
web,
rss,
technology,
fediverse
scatmania
Feb 02, 2024 09:38
I mentioned yesterday that during Bloganuary I'd put non-Bloganuary-prompt post ideas onto the backburner, and considered extending my daily streak by posting them in February. Here's part of my attempt to do that:
Let's take a trip into the Web of yesteryear, with thanks to our friends at the
standards,
web development,
history,
web,
netscape,
web browser,
published on gemini,
browsers,
technology,
web design,
browser wars,
web browsers
scatmania
Aug 25, 2022 14:20
Via Jeremy Keith I today discovered Jim Nielsen's suggestion for a website's /.well-known/links to be a place where it can host a JSON-formatted list of all of its outgoing links.
That's a really useful thing to have in this new age of the web, where Refererer: headers are no-longer commonly
standards,
web development,
indieweb,
web,
open source,
wordpress
scatmania
May 11, 2021 12:45
This weekend, while investigating a bug in some code that generates iCalendar (ICS) feeds, I learned about a weird quirk in the Republic of Ireland's timezone. It's such a strange thing (and has so little impact on everyday life) that I imagine that even most Irish people don't even know about it,
time,
standards,
history,
three rings,
ireland,
programming,
timezones
scatmania
Jan 13, 2020 09:25
A recent observation by Phil Gyford reminded me of a recurring thought I've had. He wrote:
While being driven around England it struck me that humans are currently like the filling in a sandwich between one slice of machine - the satnav - and another - the car. Before the invention of sandwiches t
standards,
ai,
programming,
futurism
scatmania
Jan 27, 2019 12:36
Have you noticed how the titles printed on the spines of your books are all, for the most part, oriented the same way? That's not a coincidence.
ISO 6357 defines the standard positioning of titles on the spines of printed books (it's also codified as British Standard BS6738). If you assume
libraries,
standards,
books