Serving static HTML files: I’m surprised by the eagerness not to show the filename extension .html in URLs: 1. Many static site generators: • Old style: /blog-post-title.html • New style: /blog-post-title/index.html 2. Cloudflare: • Requested URL: /blog-post-title.html • Forwarded to: /blog-post-title Downsides: 1. More complicated file system structure 2. Two URLs for same file

I’ll give the Ecosia search engine a try: The quality of DDG’s results has been underwhelming. This sounds like good news(?) “The internet just got better: our European search index goes live”

The internet just got better: our European search index goes live

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#Mastodon: I keep thinking that a simple kind of nomadic identity (*) could look like this: • A domain as a user name resolves to a “current account name” (via a DNS record). • Each server has the same paths for all posts—no matter if they are local or remote. • The domain points to the current server.

Mastodon’s weaknesses and how to fix them

As a web developer, I love Mastodon: Since Twitter became X, there are enough web dev people here. I’m happy with the web app – it even has sev...

Phenomenon that perplexes me: Sometimes, Safari completely swallows client-side errors (e.g. exceptions). I have to switch to Chrome or Firefox to see them. Not sure what is going on. Maybe it’s just me?