Archive for the ‘Web’ Category

The Importance of Decentralized Services

The majority of this post was written before all the Facebook privacy concerns of May 2010 occurred, but those events make the whole issue much more relevant.I commented on a story about a user who loved AIM shortly after Buzz was launched, and, as I have in the past, I got reactions of confusion from [...]

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Thoughts on Apple’s Hypocricy

This one is going to be as short as I can make it, and to the point.  Apple is getting more and more ridiculous in their anti-Flash arguments.  Anyone who knows me knows I hate Flash (because it breaks the web…especially keyboard-based control of my browser), but it should be my choice whether to use [...]

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Re-thinking the Tabs Model in Modern Browsers

TL;DR version: Modern browsers need to learn a lesson from Emacs and keyboard launchers and provide an interface for tab-switching that is keyboard search-as-you-type based.  Firefox is the best browser to implement this on, since it is very extensible. The Extensibility of Firefox Mozilla recently hosted a Summer Design Challenge for 2009 that focused on [...]

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Beauty in Programming: Part I

Introduction When I program, I sometimes am fortunate enough to see beauty emerge from what I do. I love programming because of this, but, enthusiastic as I am about it, I find that it is very hard to convey the essence of what I see to others, which often means that they cannot understand what [...]

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Using TiddlyWiki

Though perputually on the verge of total disorganization in the physical realm, I try to keep my digital world very organized.  Because of this, I habitually try to move more and more of my life into a digital representation, which allows easy backup, searching and reorganization.  Although I have tried many free and proprietary software [...]

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identi.ca as an Evolution of Twitter

So after it became painfully apparent that: Twitter was an attractive idea Twitter didn’t really fit with the distributed nature of the web Twitter didn’t scale all that well an obvious opportunity emerged: build a better mousetrap, err, Twitter. And that is exactly what the Laconica software does. Built by Control Yourself, and hosted on [...]

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