📚 The reading list

[nichoth]

• Towards Small-Scale Social — What do we want from our online social spaces?

  When we think about these platforms at their best: they're about connection, meaning, friends, sparks of delight and provocations and resonance

• The Extended Internet Universe — The Internet is now a very complicated place

  Public and cozy are just two of the dozens of distinctly different flavors of internet around today. Here’s my attempt at mapping the complexity of the extended internet universe.

• When "Everything" Becomes Too Much: The npm Package Chaos of 2024

  a troll campaign with a package called "everything," which depends on all public npm packages

• the slow web — articulating how my most-frequented websites and apps were making me feel

• A future for SQL on the web

• Speeding up IndexedDB reads and writes

• web tiles

  Meaningful digital systems cannot work without trust

  Asking people to approve access that they know they don't fully understand and that they couldn't monitor even if they did understand it does not empower them.

  What happens if essentially all the data that matters most to you is not on your system but on someone else's? In that case — which is the common case today — the current browser-based user agent paradigm will not protect you from arbitrary access. Most of the time you'll have no option other than to trust some company that, more often than not, you know isn't trustworthy.

• Universal Link vs URL Schemes

• ActivityPub Over ATProto

• Credible exit — Examples of credible exit

• Inverting three key relationships in computing — A vision for three key changes to how apps and services work today

• The Web Is For User Agency

• Building an incredible UX as a one-person startup — Chad Burggraf talks to us about how Replicache helps him deliver an incredible UX as a one-person startup.

• And You Thought Buttons Were Easy? — A Story for Selling a System that Scales

• The Extended Internet Universe — The Internet is now a very complicated place

• Client to Authenticator Protocol (CTAP)

• Experimental WebAuthn PRF Extension Demonstration

• vlcn.io — "It's like Git, for your data."

• missing the point of webassembly

  it’s like explaining what a dog is by starting with its circulatory system. You’re not wrong, but you should probably lead with the bark.

• End-to-End Encryption in Web Apps

  What kind of guarantees does a user still have with a web app, served to them dynamically?

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• End-to-End Arguments in System Design