sure! its veryla.io - would love to hear your feedback
We forget how fast the web can be, because of all the bloated sites out there.
Remember when sites used to serve requests based on the browser identifier rather than trying to contemporaneously display and format text with jscript?
This site is "fast" - it fully loads in 1 second, sure. one of my own purely nodejs + jscript site also finishes rendering content in 750ms, with 480ms of that spent decrypting into the drag-resize container. Meanwhile, Dan Luu's site completes rendering an entire blog post in 300ms, first byte to fully rendered.
this doesn't mean anything, really - i just expected it to waterfall differently based on "how fast it felt".
I remember when my window to the world was a 56k modem, which took its sweet time to load the page I wanted.
This all ignores that spoken word over a mediocre connection (anything except actual copper landlines, in my - get off my lawn - opinion) is way lower bandwidth than even early modems in the 300-2400 baud range. Realistically, my favorite method of communication is to actually have a spoken word conversation with people, in person. This is untenable for my friends that have moved away from me, and me from other friends. That in mind, the matrix people have worked on and have published extensions to the matrix ecosystem that allow sub-kilobyte messages to pass on the network, fully encrypted and fully fledged messages. They are targeting sub 4000 baud connections (in general, i think their actual goal is much slower transmission than that).
I don't have the time or inclination to try and run a matrix "node" on ham bands, but i do know it is technically possible. And that's almost good enough for me.
For your edification though, the last time i used only a 56k connection was back in the very late 90s, and i spent a lot of time on IRC rather than "the world wide web"
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DA6JRB560eM A youtube video shot handheld of a radio and a modem checking email wireless-like. The modem, i've heard, is around $800. I got it for free to participate in emergency communications and teach other people how to use it.
Unfortunately, none of it can be encrypted (not with my license, at least) - but for sending telemetry or simple "i'm still alive" messages i think it would be pretty cool. Not having to write custom tooling off ham radio "tools" like fldigi, but rather have a bot sitting somewhere else monitoring the channel seems like a huge, huge win.
there should be another round of work on this fairly soon driven by our p2p work - #p2p:matrix.org is probably the best place to follow along, likewise arewep2pyet.com
Nice design, I find it refreshing :)
Without making the page too cluttered, you've got room to expand the design in terms of width and I think the entries could benefit from a timestamp of some manner (Thursday 5/12).
Basically let people know that it's fresh, beyond the slogan at the top.
Then snapshot the page weekly (pick a date to do an end of week snapshot), and provide archives for browsing / searching. That could either be all historical weeks, or merely recent (a month or three deep).
Your “veryLA” heading could perhaps do with a trigger warning for fontheads: the kerning looks erratic even to mine engineer type eyes;
It would be more cohesive to have it in a monospace font to match the rest of the website. And probably not on an arc, as that's going to be relatively difficult to manually kern using CSS transforms. Maybe a little bit of a perspective distort instead, give it an almost isometric style.
When you get a minute, would you put an RSS feed for your blog? I want to read your articles.
[1] veryla.io/feed
[2] veryla.io/stories/feed
[1] veryla.io/feed
[2] veryla.io/stories/feed