Richard MacManus
Senior Editor at The New Stack
Founder of ReadWriteWeb and Cybercultural (https://t.co/6duOxNS9mQ). No longer on X; you can find me now on Mastodon at https://t.co/hgsU1W3nw7
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1 week ago |
thenewstack.io | Richard MacManus
The web browser has been the core app of the web for more than thirty years. Fundamentally, it hasn’t changed much over that time, but now it’s starting to be reimagined as an AI tool. Dia, a new web browser that invites you to “chat with your tabs,” has just been launched as an invite-only beta by The Browser Company. I took it for a spin to find out what AI browsers can offer.
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2 weeks ago |
thenewstack.io | Richard MacManus
This month marks the 30th anniversary of PHP being released to the world. To find out how PHP has evolved over the years, its technical improvements over the past decade, and the importance of PHP frameworks like Laravel and Symfony, I spoke to PHP core developer Derick Rethans. Rethans has been a PHP developer for 25 years and he first contributed to the project in 2001. He’s currently a core developer at the PHP Foundation, the non-profit organization that manages the PHP open source project.
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2 weeks ago |
thenewstack.io | Richard MacManus
Believe it or not, it’s been over three years since Twitter announced it was being sold to Elon Musk. When that news broke, some Twitter users (myself included) began to move to the fediverse — a collection of decentralized web products powered by the W3C standard, ActivityPub. Many people thought this might be the beginning of a full-scale exodus from Twitter to more open products, like Mastodon. But three years later and the X-odus still hasn’t happened.
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3 weeks ago |
thenewstack.io | Richard MacManus
When the web was first scaling up, content delivery networks (CDNs) became a way of dealing with the ever-increasing load. Akamai is widely considered the pioneer of CDN technology in the late-1990s, but arguably it’s been overtaken now by younger, more agile CDN competitors.
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1 month ago |
cybercultural.com | Richard MacManus
With the rise of Flash and CSS in 1997, three web design philosophies emerged. David Siegel advocated for 'hacks', Jakob Nielsen kept it simple, while Jeffrey Zeldman combined flair with usability. My well-thumbed copies of three classic web design books: 'Creating Killer Web Sites' by David Siegel (1996-97), 'Taking your Talent to the Web' by Jeffrey Zeldman (2001), and 'Designing Web Usability' by Jakob Nielsen (1999).
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Remember when we thought Twitter was the key to democracy? 😂 It's March 2010 and the Paley Center hosts an event in NYC starring Chinese artist and activist @aiww, Twitter CEO @jack, and your humble RWW editor. We're discussing the future of democracy. https://t.co/4k6TDO02xt https://t.co/ELJJw1JtkW
I'm no longer posting on X. I socialize at these places: - My newsletter, where I'm serializing my book, "Bubble Blog: From Outsider to Insider in Silicon Valley's Web 2.0 Revolution" https://t.co/X5cTAzsiw3 - Mastodon: https://t.co/khJg2t1tAp - Threads: https://t.co/WurzkWote9 https://t.co/EhQ3haeK0B
The latest installment of my new book, "Bubble Blog: From Outsider to Insider in Silicon Valley's Web 2.0 Revolution." It's 2004 and I'm a member of the blogosphere. This is pre-Web 2.0, but with new "social software" sites like Flickr, it's heating up. https://t.co/wS3hKYHtNY