Блоги: заметки с тегом the web

No-CSS Club

Robert — Wed, 02 Aug 2023 13:57:23 +0500

Structural simplicity is not necessarily visual simplicity. Modular devices are structurally simple, but often physically bulky. MacBook power bricks are visually simple, but structurally too complex to be repaired.

Philosophically, structural simplicity is the one to prioritise. Form follows function.

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Designing a webstead around the avoidance of CSS leads to a reduction in bloat and an improvement in structure.

It also makes plain sense. Visitors are already setting their preferences, whether font size, color theme, or window width. I’m just extending this way of thinking to style sheets, which can be customised thru browsers.

I’m happy to have my webstead listed in the No-CSS Club. Some day, this blog too will wave goodbye to cascades.

No-JS Club

Robert — Tue, 25 Jul 2023 21:41:47 +0500

Robert:

My webstead has never had JS outside of some blog features.

I’m happy that it has now been listed in the No-JS Club!

Bing is delisting my webstead

Robert — Wed, 28 Jun 2023 02:14:33 +0500

Robert:

Bing is delisting my webstead — a search for Robert Blinov does not index robertblinov.net on Bing, DuckDuckGo, Ecosia, and Yahoo.

That’s how 4chan is treated — even Cahlen Lee and Infowars have not been delisted!

Boycott the censors!

SEO hijacking

Robert — Wed, 05 Apr 2023 23:46:10 +0500

Robert:

It is essential to control one’s image. Telling one’s own story forestalls others from coming up with theories, while the right positioning turns cheaply made products into premium ones.

I’m particularly fascinated by how the eccentric tactic of SEO hijacking can help overshadow unwanted narratives:

Boris Johnson’s revelation about his hobby of making bus models overshadowed the Brexit bus controversy;
the Biden administration’s crack-pipe handout overshadowed talk about Hunter Biden’s cocaine addiction;
the train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, overshadowed news about zionists attacking Palestine in the Middle East;
the launch of Burnt Hair perfume overshadowed stories about exploding Teslas;
Doge becoming Twitter’s logo overshadowed the Dogecoin-related suit against Elon Musk.

Fight back against cyber-censorship

Robert — Mon, 13 Mar 2023 00:50:20 +0500

Robert:

Woke publishers and video platforms are making retroäctive changes to great classics. Fight back by storing valuable content offline.

KYC finance limits people from transacting freely. Fight back by using cash and Monero.

Purposefully-built filter-bubbles limit important information from reaching normies. Fight back by personally explaining the threatening agendas to as many as possible.

Happy World Day Against Cyber-Censorship!

Bitcoin-powered NFTs

Robert — Wed, 07 Apr 2021 00:03:53 +0500

Robert:

This is a sponsored post. The text is mine

Non-fungible tokens — NFTs — are proofs of ownership for scarce digital units built upon a blockchain, which is a distributed list of records.

The bitcoin blockchain is renowned for its strong settlement assurances: a transaction cannot be undone after being confirmed by miners. Since bitcoin has more miners than any other project in the world, it is harder to falsify and take down records at scale. The bitcoin blockchain’s resilience and record authenticity makes it the best choice for long-lasting NFTs.

Use cases for NFTs

NFTs can be used for artistic experiments, such as “original” copies of drawings and soundtracks. The collage “Everydays: the first 5000 days” was bought for $69 million by a collector in March of 2021. However, there is no long-term value to this use case: the hype we’re seeing now is tulip-free tulip mania.

It is better to use NFTs to create one-of-a-kind in-game assets, like collectibles and feature-unlocking tokens. This is an area worth exploring because video games are among the best social experiences possible online.

The dominant use case for NFTs is likely to be decentralised domain names. Monopolistic organisations such as the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers — ICANN — can raise prices, cut links between domain names and servers, as well as limit the availability of domain name extensions (such as .icannsucks, for example). To prevent potential censorship, we need to build decentralised domain name systems powered by NFTs.

Stacks helps to build decentralised systems upon the bitcoin blockchain with Clarity, a simple, secure, and reliable programming language tailored specifically for creating smart contracts: it has a function dedicated to creating NFTs! Also, it is an interpreted language, meaning that it is always human-readable and auditable.

Build NFTs on top of the bitcoin blockchain with Stacks and Clarity

The future of the web

Robert — Wed, 24 Feb 2021 20:41:01 +0500

Robert:

This is a sponsored post. The text is mine

Recently, I’ve written a manifesto about being immune to cancel culture. Understanding the gloomy reality, I decided to stop it from affecting me.

In today’s centralised web, the only sure way to avoid being deplatformed is to run a server at home, something that may not always be possible to do. Searching for other ways to resist external restrictions, I found out about Stacks, a network that creates a financial incentive to decentralise the web. Just like miners are paid a fee for running bitcoin nodes, Stackers are paid a fee to run Stacks.

Stacks is versatile: it can be used to run websites with the decentralised storage system Gaia, but also to place smart contracts such as paid subscriptions, auctions, and access control.

It’s time to start transitioning to the decentralised Web 3.0. Learn more on Stacks.co

Conspiracy theory videos

Robert — Sat, 09 Nov 2019 23:36:27 +0500

Robert:

A conspiracy theory video gets lowered down in the index because it is nonsense.
The author of the video claims that it was lowered down because the conspirators want to hide the truth.

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Internet-free Sundays

Robert — Fri, 25 Jan 2019 17:19:32 +0500

Robert:

From June to December 31, 2017, I had an experiment going on — internet-free Sundays. It worked just like it sounds. I noticed that the internet is not unhealthy nor bad, but overwhelming. There were many things I procrastinated on to enjoy the web.

I have a similar sensation now, so I’m starting it again.

This is similar to why I don’t read the news: everything important will get to me one way or another.

Contextual text in articles

Robert — Fri, 30 Nov 2018 23:23:08 +0500

Robert:

Almost anything can be easily revealed about any internet user. Why not use it to give authors a powerful way to contextualise what people read? People will get a bonus for giving away privacy: saving time.

For instance, instead of writing

If you have an iPhone, go to Settings ‹...›
If you’re on Android, then there is no way to solve this.

write

Since you have an iPhone, go to Settings ‹...›

The same idea can be applied to videos too.