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Finger: the 1971 social network that never died | Andros Fenollosa (opens the original)
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It will surprise more than a few of you to hear that the first social network dates back to 1971. No accounts, no algorithm, no central server. Your entire profile fits in a single plain text file that you control. John Carmack (co-founder of id Software and programmer of Doom and Quake) used it as a development journal. And chances are you already have a client installed on your operating system without knowing it. But the most incredible part is that, half a century later, it still works. And
HTML over WebSockets: real-time SPAs with barely any JavaScript | Andros Fenollosa (opens the original)
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Building a SPA (Single-page Application) is a complex puzzle: a JavaScript framework that draws the view, an API serving JSON, and 2 independent codebases forced to understand each other through contracts. It is an accepted, professionalized scenario. But being a standard does not make it the only way. I want to show you another approach, one that is not new but has gained traction over the years: HTML over WebSockets. The idea is this: instead of sending JSON and assembling the HTML in the brow
Why I don't recommend Tailwind CSS | Andros Fenollosa (opens the original)
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Tailwind CSS is a very popular CSS framework among web developers. With no prior graphic design knowledge, it solves the standardization of spacing, colors, and sizes for you. And on top of that, if you are even slightly disorganized, it forces you into a working methodology based on building large structures out of simple utilities (Utility-First Fundamentals). Add to all that a documentation that is easy to understand with a flawless search. In the past I used it on several projects, it helped
Modern email can be built from borrowed parts | Andros Fenollosa (opens the original)
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Let's design the successor to email on top of HTTP, fixing the design flaws SMTP has been dragging along for 40 years. Piece by piece. The goal is not to replace the current mail system, heaven forbid!, but to learn, have fun and discover current technologies to swap out every element: sending, receiving, gateway, keys, and so on. The system will never talk to Gmail or any classic email provider: it only talks to itself. The only thing we are going to keep is the shape of the addresses, user@dom
Emacs is a Lispboard | Andros Fenollosa (opens the original)
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What would have happened if Emacs' default buffer had been a terminal emulator? Conceptually, from the outside, it would be perceived as a terminal on steroids with Lisp as its scripting language. Maybe we would be talking about iTerm2 vs Emacs, or Kitty vs Emacs, or even Bash vs Emacs. And what if the default buffer had been Dired, the file manager? History might have created rivalries such as Total Commander vs Emacs, or Finder vs Emacs. But history took another path. We already know that if y
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