This Page is Designed to Last

There's no reason why a web browser bookmark action doesn't automatically create a WARC (web archive) format. Heck, with the cost of storage so low, recording every webpage you ever visit in searchable format is also very realistic. Imagine having the last 30 years of web browsing history saved on your local machine. This would especially be useful when in research mode and deep diving a topic. [1] https://github.com/machawk1/warcreate [2] https://github.com/machawk1/wail [3]…

The internet is self-cleaning. Materials that no one cares to maintain rots away. It’s more like a city than a library. Houses need to be maintained and used or they eventually become unusable and will be torn down and replaced or simply abandoned. I think some early thoughts about the web was that it was going to be a library of knowledge. Those ideas were misguided I think. It’s a chaotic city and it probably always will be. The article…

> Return to vanilla HTML/CSS > Don't minimize that HTML > Prefer one page over several > End all forms of hotlinking > Stick with native fonts > Obsessively compress your images I like these, I'm inspired. I wish I could see what common html looked like / view some page sources from the 90s. Also using ffmpeg to batch compress images is fun.