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Wasm is the new CGI | Roborooter.com
I read a wonderful twitter thead about CGI and the birth of the web and this triggered a thought I’ve been kicking around. “Wasm is the new CGI”
Good article. Web server technology is an area of interest for me, and I think the author is right: Wasm is positioned to be the next big thing in this space. I think it’s just a matter of time before the tooling and platforms are mature enough for wide adoption.
Also, don’t miss the Twitter thread about CGI and the birth of the web. This was a great walk through history. As someone who’s been working in this space for a long time, it was so fun to see this look back at the history and the impact this technology had. I basically owe my career to CGI!
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Hurricane Milton from space via the NASA Johnson Flickr.
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This is crazy, Greenday’s Dookie album rendered on various whacky media for the album’s 30th anniversary!
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I really enjoyed Guy Kawasaki’s 2021 podcast interview with Dave Winer!
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A look at Mozilla’s rebrand. “Mozilla’s new logo is a flag s…
A look at Mozilla’s rebrand. “Mozilla’s new logo is a flag symbol built from the Mozilla M that comes to life to reveal the company’s iconic Tyrannosaurus Rex symbol and mascot, originally designed by Shepard Fairey.”
I like it, especially that it incorporates the T-Rex. Not so sure I believe Mozilla will live up to the brand that’s described here…but I’d like to be wrong about this. Here’s hoping they live up to their mission.
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The videos from XOXO are starting to be posted and one of the first up is Molly White’s talk Fighting for our web.
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Today is the 30th anniversary of Dave Winer’s blog! Incredible that he’s been at it for so long. I’m also thankful that he created blogging and RSS!
I’m also thankful that platforms like Micro.blog help to keep blogging on the open web going!
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I did it! I finally finished Into the Aether’s nearly 16 hour podcast episode Game of the Decade 2000-2009!
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Just found the 31 Days of Halloween newsletter. It has already delivered by linking the Lofi Girl Halloween station.
Via Waxy.org
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Finally, a view in 3D from the Tallahassee radar as the hurricane made landfall.
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And this is the pressure gauge in my back yard.
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The hurricane has made it through the Atlanta area. I hope everyone made it through ok.
Here’s a view of the radar as the storm passed through.
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A few photos from the Forward Warrior Mural Festival in Cabbagetown, Atlanta where every year artists gather to paint murals along Wylie street.
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The Space Shuttle Atlantis from my visit to Kennedy Space Center in 2021 came up in my “on this day” photos. It was so awesome to see this in person!
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iOS and iPadOS 18: The MacStories Review - MacStories - Part 5
While the company is busy finding an identity for its expensive headset without a strong app ecosystem, building swiveling HomePods with a screen, and following the rest of the industry in an LLM-measuring contest for who’s got the biggest model, iPad users like me are just here, shrugging off another year of almost no new features, still enamored with a platform that Apple seemingly develops by inertia as an expensive passion project.
I’m enjoying Federico’s salty takes in his iOS 18 review.
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Finished reading: War Against All Puerto Ricans by Nelson A Denis 📚
This book tells the story of the US colonization of Puerto Rico in all its shocking and horrific detail. I think this is an important read to understand how the past treatment of Puerto Rico by the US, affects the island currently.
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Lake Rabun in north Georgia.
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Scripting News: Dropbox almost reinvented the web
I was trying to explain to Miguel de Icaza, a longtime developer friend, how Dropbox was within inches of making the web a million times more useful, ten years ago, and then backed away from it. I don’t think I’ve ever told the story here on my blog, so here goes.
I didn’t realize Dropbox had worked on something like this. I think Dave is right, this could have helped establish a platform for a whole ecosystem of small, indie web apps.
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SpaceX’s Polaris Dawn completed the first private spacewalk
While I know this is a big achievement, I can’t help but feel this is still a step back from the Shuttle program, where astronauts could exit through an airlock rather than expose the whole capsule to the vacuum. The approach with the Dragon gives me Mercury/Apollo vibes.
