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After Nonstop 31-Day Stream, Ludwig Breaks Ninja's All-Time Twitch Subscriber Record
13.4.2021
For 31 days, Ludwig Ahgren’s stream has been up and running all day every day. He hasn’t been awake the entire time, but he and his moderators have ensured that it’s grown to be one of Twitch’s most consistent and comforting presences—albeit one that is probably taking a not-insignificant mental...
Discord Blocks All iOS Users From Accessing NSFW Servers
13.4.2021
If an iPhone is your main window into Discord’s cacophonous void of yelling gamers, your options just got a lot more limited.Read more
'Shop Contest: More Donald Ducks!
11.4.2021
One Donald Duck ain’t enough for my colleague Ian Walker. So let’s give him more Donalds!Read more
Twitch Will Now Take Action Against Threats, Violence, And Sexual Assault On Other Platforms
7.4.2021
Many Twitch streamers have YouTube channels, and vice versa. They also have Twitter pages, Instagrams, TikToks, SnapChats, and basically every other kind of account under the sun. For years, Twitch has taken activity on other platforms into account when deciding to suspend or ban streamers, albeit...
'Shop Contest: Easter Sunday 2021
4.4.2021
To those who celebrate, Happy Easter! To those who don’t care or just realized today is Easter Sunday, happy Sunday! A year ago things were bad. Today, things are...still bad. But getting better! I think. Read more
Where the World Wide Web Shines
1.4.2021
Here’s a fabulous post by Vitaly Friedman that looks at how to make accessible front-end components and what problems there are today when it comes to building them.
There’s so much great info packed into this one post that I’m …
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'Shop Contest: National Something On A Stick Day
28.3.2021
Oh hey, you probably expected something about a boat or a canal. Nah. We doing food on a stick! To celebrate National Food On A Stick Day! Read more
Twitch Streamer Behind 'Never-Ending' Marathon Says He'll Only Make A Small Fraction Of $470,000 Haul
25.3.2021
For the past week and a half, Twitch star Ludwig Ahgren has been on the clock. Whether asleep, awake, or drowsily somewhere between, Ahgren has kept his stream running to fulfill the terms of a “subathon” where every subscription adds ten seconds to a timer. So far, he’s pulled in nearly $500,000....
'Shop Contest: The Rock Edition
21.3.2021
According to weirdos on the internet, The Rock might be in Fortnite. Maybe? Who can really say? (Besides The Rock, his PR team, and Epic.) Regardless, let’s put The Rock in some video games!Read more
'Shop Contest: The Imps From Artifact Need New Jobs
7.3.2021
Artifact is dead, or at least it won’t be updated anymore which for online games is basically the same thing as dead. That means the two imps seen in Artifact, both in-game and in promo artwork, need a new gig. Let’s help ‘em out! Read more
'Shop Contest: New Mail Truck
28.2.2021
Did you hear the big news? Sit down, folks. I’m happy to tell you that the United States Postal Service is getting...NEW TRUCKS! They look kind of dorky, but cute. Let’s have some fun with them. Read more
Bots Reportedly Helped Fuel GameStonks Hype on Facebook, Twitter, and Other Platforms
28.2.2021
The s0-called GameStonks saga had some help from automated bots hyping up “meme” stocks on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube, according to an analysis by the cybersecurity firm PiiQ Media reviewed by Reuters.Read more
Your Travel Guide to the Rudderless Right-Wing Web After Trump
24.2.2021
Moving into 2021 and forward, conservatives angry about cancel culture, censorship, shadowbans, or the attention of the FBI have a rich array of social destinations to choose from. We’ve prepped a travel guide for the unwitting observer who might be thinking of checking any of these conspicuous...
Twitch Viewers Elect Meme Lizard As New Permanent Pogchamp
12.2.2021
Today, Twitch let viewers vote on a new permanent Pogchamp emote. A lizard won. Frankly, it was inevitable.Read more
'Shop Contest: Super Bowl 2021
7.2.2021
The big game! The final match. The super thing! Whatever you call it, the Super Bowl is today. Seems weird to hold a Super Bowl during a pandemic, but hey, what do I know. Read more
Chapter 3: The Website
19.8.2020
Previously in web history…
Berners-Lee, motivated by his own curiosity, creates the World Wide Web at CERN. He releases its technologies to the public domain, which enables the development of several new browsers for every operating system. Mosaic proves to the most popular, and...
Chapter 1: Birth
5.8.2020
Tim Berners-Lee is fascinated with information. It has been his life’s work. For over four decades, he has sought to understand how it is mapped and stored and transmitted. How it passes from person to person. How the seeds of information become the roots of dramatic change. It is so fundamental...
Some Typography Links
25.6.2020
I just can’t stop opening excellent typography-related articles, which means I need to subject you to blog posts that round them up so I can clean up my open tabs.
Vistaserve is “a grass-roots web hosting initiative hailing from Thornbury, Australia. Inspired by the quirky web of...
World Wide Web během 30 let zásadně změnil svět
13.3.2019
Internetová síť World Wide Web vznikla původně jako prostředek ke sdílení vědeckých informací. Po rozšíření internetu mimo akademickou sféru v 90. letech dokázal web zásadně změnit způsob, jakým pracují a baví se stamiliony lidí po celém světě. První návrh systému, z něhož se World Wide...
World Wide Web neboli celosvětová síť slaví 30 let. Tim Berners-Lee ho vytvořil jako technologii pro vědce
12.3.2019
Přesně před 30 lety vydal TIm Berners-Lee materiál k nové technologii s označením „A large hypertext database with typed links“ a jak název této práce napovídá, jednalo se o první plány na web. Nikoli internet (síť protokolů), ale web, který zahrnuje odkazy a stránky uložené na serverech, mezi