I recently added a link-checker to the deploy process for this website, and of the ~500 or so external links links I’ve added over my 13-ish years of posts, 10% of them were completely dead, a handful more hit unexpected error states (expired certs, timeouts, etc.), and I can’t even...
I’m a little obsessive about backwards compatibility on the web, and one thing that can be particularly sticky are image formats. While I know that GIF is the most widely supported format across both space and time, I wanted to better understand what is actually available across the wide-spectrum of...
I came of age on The Internet at a time when images and the web went hand-in-hand. The proliferation of the animated GIF in the personal web page scene was an aesthetic that defines the web in the time of Y2K (and one that I used to great effect on...
When I was a kid, I loved exploring the World Wide Web. There was just so much to discover, and I was on a mission to find it all. Unlike the homogeneity of the modern web, back then everything was unique.
Remember when using The Internet was a chore? You had to wait for hours before the one family computer was free, and when you finally did get on it, everything was so damn slow you had no choice but to exercise a degree of patience no child should be capable...
This last spring, my daughter expressed an interest in learning about computers—how they work, how to use them, what they’re made of. A lifelong computer geek myself, I jumped at the opportunity to bond with her over something that I have always been passionate about. I suggested that we build...