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A website is a performance
When it comes to things like relationships, the bonds we form are ever-evolving and impossible to fossilize, just as the living internet will always trace back to links that stop functioning. But if the internet is fundamentally not meant for keeping, I’d still like to imagine what more it has to offer us.
The frailty of profit-oriented projects
... See moreNow imagine: how many programs and services make us wait more than 100ms? I’d say more or less all of them, starting with almost every website, with a few exceptions. You don’t think about “requesting” Google when you type your search query and it auto-completes after each letter. But you do think about rebooting your computer. Or booting up your... See more
Niki Tonsky • Speed is a feature
Part of the problem is metaphor. We’re still importing models from legacy media, even as the technical capabilities of the web expand. The “desktop,” the “page,” the “homepage.” But what if we started from scratch with forces native to the web, such as time, movement, depth, interaction?