Technical Reading

“ Social media and now AI is pushing us further and further away from human-based websites as a source of authority. /p ”

“ So-called ‘server-less’ environments necessarily require stitching services together, and that introduces latency. Single-machine monoliths will always be the fastest architecture. /p ”

“ A comprehensive history of RSS: how and when it was invented, the controversy’s it has endured, and what has superseded it. ”

“ When running an early-stage startup, be prepared to do things that will not work in the long-run, but are critical to getting your product or service off the ground. /p ”

“ A discussion of how AI is going to change the professional services model in web development and integration. ”

“ A discussion of styling websites based on element names alone, with no specified CSS classes. ”

“ A call to use line breaks to add semantic meaning to text, even when not visible in the final output. ”

“19 August 2025Ankur Goyal I spend a decent amount of time reviewing code I didn’t write. An AI agent takes a detailed problem description, writes code (primarily Typescript, Rust, and Python), adds tests, and commits the changes to a branch. I tap back in when everything’s ready for review. This…”

“There’s a pizza shop near me that serves a normal pizza. I mean, they distribute the toppings in a normal way. They’re not uniform at all. The toppings are random, but not the way I want. The colloquial understanding of ‘random’ is kind of the Platonic ideal of a pizza: slightly chaotic but things…”

“HTML is Dead, Long Live HTML Rethinking DOM from first principles Browsers are in a very weird place. While WebAssembly has succeeded, even on the server, the client still feels largely the same as it did 10 years ago. Enthusiasts will tell you that accessing native web APIs via WASM is a solved…”

“ An appreciation and recollection of PHP. ”

“ A good primer on how SVG works. ”

“After migrating several projects from WordPress to Astro, I’ve become a massive fan of this framework. What is Astro? Astro is a web framework that came out in 2021 and immediately felt different. While most JavaScript frameworks started with building complex applications and then tried to adapt to…”

“ An introduction of a new XML library for Rust that also includes a look back at the history of XML and the underlying philosophies of XSLT and XPath. ”

“ A proposal to add a native templating API to JavaScript. ”

“ A vague polemic against the current crop of CMS-com-marketing-platforms. ”

“Protocol for communicating between LLMs and applications Relationship between MCP client and server The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open standard, open-source framework introduced by Anthropic in November 2024 to standardize the way artificial intelligence (AI) models like large language…”

“ Discussion of different perspective of what makes software ‘complex’ and how to define and measure complexity. ”

“ Thoughts on how to write software so that it can be edited and changed more easily at the code level. ”

“ A story about inventing a new paradigm of data storage to fix some problems, and whether or not that was a good idea. ”

“ A ‘quine’ is a program that outputs itself. So a ‘web page quine’ is a web page that outputs its own HTML. /p ”