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If you're interested in recent innovations on this front: (rather than just retreading the same Web as before)

* Beaker (https://beakerbrowser.com) the peer-to-peer browser just released their beta release - and it has some exciting features. Particularly the built-in editor, meaning you can edit, serve and read your pages all from the browser. (Blogging in Beaker is as simple as visiting: hyper://a8e9bd0f4df60ed5246a1b1f53d51a1feaeb1315266f769ac218436f12fda830/. And the posts are stored locally.)

* https://special.fish/ This completely low-tech social network has taken off. The innovation here is that it's all just focused on profile pages - not feeds of random posts.

* There's a growing subculture of public Tiddlywikis (philosopher.life, sphygm.us, etc) - rather than focusing on protocols and APIs, they are much more focused on how to organize and style personal hypertext.

* As for RSS, well, as HN custom insists, I am also commenting to plug my own fraidyc.at. See, you knew it was here.

* On a related note, I've also been working on an RSS/Atom extension to handle ephemeral posts: live streams, "stories", pinned posts, etc. https://github.com/kickscondor/fraidycat/wiki/RSS-Atom-Exten...

* There's also a forum on tiny personal link directories that's been forming at https://forum.indieseek.xyz. The idea here is to use Yahoo! or DMOZ style link directories at a smaller scale, to catalog corners of the Web. (Note that this whole comment itself is a kind of small 'directory'. Rather than an algorithm stepping in to show you 'related' stuff, I have.)

There was a small resurgence of webrings in last year:

Hotline Webring: https://hotlinewebring.club

XXIIVV Webring: https://webring.xxiivv.com

Weird Wide Webring: https://weirdwidewebring.net

I'm personally more into personal directories and blogrolls than these random clicks - but they still seem to be a good way to put together a small community. (And this post isn't meant to discourage you - but rather to encourage you to form your own.)

Certainly - if you email me (kicks@kickscondor.com) a link to your directory, I will absolutely include it here: https://href.cool/Web/Directory

There is also some discussion about this kind of thing here: https://forum.indieseek.xyz Good to meet you, Alessio.

Well, it’s my opinion that technology can’t solve the discovery problem. I know we want it to. But at some point the technology has to evaluate the content. It can’t - so technology gives the content to humans to evaluate. However, it can’t evaluate the humans’ capabilities. :/

You discover a directory like mine just as you would discover any other link, johntash - by coming across it as you read, perhaps on Hacker News. If there were more directories, they would be easier to discover. They happen to be richer discovery points than a normal blog or profile page.

I run a Yahoo-style directory for blogs and articles I find: https://href.cool/. I'd personally like to see more personal directories rather than big monolithic directories of everything - those tend to collect spam.

One way my group has done this is to tackle an author or a series together - that way we have some common ground in our reading.

However, if you’re doing it long-term, I much prefer just talking about what you’re reading right now. Over time, you will start to read each other’s recommendations and the discussion will catch up.

I’m sure there are a lot of ways to do this. (OH and it’s awesome that you fessed up about skimming the article - I am there with you the rest of the time. :D)

Did you finish the post?

> Book club, for us, isn’t about reading the same book; it’s about reading a book together.

> The idea is to make book club less an obligation than a sort of pleasant presence in our lives, this thing that’s always there.

> That’s another reason to break a book into pieces: better to have too little to fit into a session than too much; god forbid you read something complex and demanding — do you really want to spend three hours in the unpacking, or to have the session break down before the unpacking’s done?

I agree with the author's conclusions - and have a book club that operates the same way. And I agree with him because it's a better social experience. (A chance to catch up with others with happen to share book reading as a hobby without needing to do homework.)

From the creator of https://special.fish/ and other fine downtempo htmls.

Twitter is fine by me. The Indieweb is a cool ideal. But I’ve still made great discoveries through Twitter as well. (Perhaps that speaks to the ingenuity of humans despite the platform tho...)

If you get your own site up, let me know!

Oh hey! I’ve definitely mined your collection as well! Thank you for the good stuff.

Where are you promoting things, dvtrn? Good to meet you.

> The other day I searched for an hour and couldn't find even one. They used to be endless.

Oh there are still endless blogs. There are definitely a lot of defunct ones - but many have become active again recently. I review the unknown ones I come across here: https://www.kickscondor.com/hrefhunt/ (I skip software and startup blogs, because they are so numerous.)

You just can’t use the old avenues (Google searches, casual social media mentions) to find them. HN is a good source, Indieweb circles are good, and Pinboard and Are.na are other good catalogs. Once you find a few blogs you like, you’ll find your way to many more.

Oh hey - forgot about these guys. Nice find!

Thank you - great comment. I have the same issue with the social networks - they are too limiting. They give you a little box to type your paragraph into. Give people hypertext - yah they’ll make a mess, but they’ll do amazing things as well. And people will figure develop the skills over time.

My group has been doing a similar thing - except that video quality has been to unreliable for some of the more detailed boards (Troyes, Power Grid). We needed the ability to pinch and zoom the board.

We’ve been using an app called iPhotoBot to take high res shots every few seconds. These get uploaded to Dropbox. Then there is a web server of a synced folder which builds a page of the images. Server-sent events are used to update the page.

It’s kind of clunky to set up, but I can share my code if anyone is interested. I’m also curious if there are better ways to stream high quality photos.

The target was Ruby developers who use Windows and Bitcoin. I didn't get the sense that common libraries are infected - more that there are hundreds of libraries that are typosquatting. It would be interesting to find out if any of these libs ended up as dependencies.

Love the TacoBell.check_win.

The most successful attack was a change of an underbar (atlas_client) to a dash (atlas-client). Seems good to standardize these kind of non-alphanumeric characters in library names. Still, seems like open source web stores like this might need some level of human moderation?

Oh hey - just saw this. Thank you for this link - I’ve been looking for just such a thing!

If you’re interested in more about what these blogs contain, I review the links in all these threads at https://kickscondor.com/hrefhunt/.

For example, here’s one from last year’s thread at this time: https://www.kickscondor.com/hrefhunt/6/

Finding out that we all have it already would be one of the more humorous endings to this story.

This makes me think that you could use the Treendly site recently posted (discovers trends on the Internet) as a blacklist. :]

Farewell then, solstice. (Sensation that we'll pass again one day...)

This is really cool that you took notice of my projects - thank you for the kindness, solstice. Please - a link to anything you are working on - or where I can find your feed - would be appreciated.

Hey thankyou flanbiscuit! Got a web link for yourself so we can be friends?

Yeah - done some of that too.

Does anyone know of a tool like this for streaming high-quality photos? I’ve been playing some board games with friends using an iPhone on a mic stand - we couldn’t use video streaming tools because the quality has been all over the place (and you can’t zoom in on the board.) So right now we have a simple app that takes a high-quality photo every few seconds and uploads it to a web server where all the players can view it - their browsers are long-polling for new images.

But it seems that WebRTC could improve this by not requiring the server code. I also just wonder what else there is along these lines.

Related: A very basic prototype I’ve been working on, but for video zines https://kickscondor.com/slaptrash

Seems you could do something along these lines to avoid the video generation part.

It should use whatever browser your operating system has set as the default. But please let me know if that is not the case.

Yes - in OPML and JSON.

This is likely due to Firefox 'Strict' Tracking Protection. If you are okay turning it down to 'Standard', it will be fine. https://github.com/kickscondor/fraidycat/issues/26

Not sure how to solve this. Firefox thinks Fraidycat is "calling home".

That's very amusing - I originally intended Fraidycat to be "closed" except for a brief window between 7 PM and 7:10 PM - we must be on the same biorhythm. It does update throughout the day - but perhaps there is another extension that can block Fraidycat when you don't want the distractions.

Thank you for the encouragement!