Lazymorphic Apps: Bringing back the static web | &yet blog

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Essays on building fast, beautiful web apps and the craft behind them.

Ignacio Soffia on Twitter / X

Our vision for the future of the web is here. Meet Perhaps Cards: A new way to generate software on top of any website to add features, tweak content or change layouts. 🧵 pic.twitter.com/pv5epeiQt6— Ignacio Soffia (@ignaciosoffia) November 21, 2024

Favourite well-made apps and sites – Unsung

A blog about software craft and quality

Steven Vandevelde (@tokono.ma)

Looks like what I've been building is quite similar to what the foundation of Patchwork-26 is. Lots of "tiny apps" (atomization of software, loosely coupled) + just the web. Local-first and where everything revolves around the content (data-first, can use preferred UI/view). Happy to see this! 🎉

A new app, HyperTexting, turns the open web into a scrollable social media-like feed | TechCrunch

HyperTexting's new app aims to make the open web feel more like social media by turning websites, blogs, newsletters, and podcasts into a scrollable feed, while also making it easier to post to your own website.

A new app, HyperTexting, turns the open web into a scrollable social media-like feed | TechCrunch

HyperTexting's new app aims to make the open web feel more like social media by turning websites, blogs, newsletters, and podcasts into a scrollable feed, while also making it easier to post to your own website.

Quick tips on how to code a cute lazy website from a lazy art hoe with audhd who hates math (no chatbot) - Multi-hyphenate

w/ pictures and gifs by a non-engineer tech person

Publishing apps | at-store

Writing, newsletters, blogging, and reader-growth tools built to help creators publish on the open web and keep direct relationships with their audience.

Jekyll • Simple, blog-aware, static sites

Transform your plain text into static websites and blogs

(iterate think thoughts): Program images and portable Scheme backends for Jolt

Dmitri's blog about programming, Clojure, and software development

The Website vs. Web App Dichotomy Doesn't Exist | jakelazaroff.com

A one-dimensional spectrum can't sufficiently capture the tradeoffs involved in web development.

Between Principle and Pragmatism: Reflections on Prototyping Computational Media with Webstrates

Computational media describes a vision of software, which, in contrast to application-centric software, is (1) malleable, so users can modify existing functionality, (2) computable, so users can run custom code, (3) distributable, so users can open documents across different devices, and (4) shareable, so users can easily share and collaborate on documents. Over the last ten years, the Webstrates and Codestrates projects aimed at realizing this vision of computational media. Webstrates is a server application that synchronizes the DOM of websites. Codestrates builds on top of Webstrates and adds an authoring environment, which blurs the use and development of applications. Grounded in a chronology of the development of Webstrates and Codestrates, we present eight tensions that we needed to balance during their development. We use these tensions as an analytical lens in three case studies and a game challenge in which participants created games using Codestrates. We discuss the results of the game challenge based on these tensions and present key takeaways for six of them. Finally, we present six lessons learned from our endeavor to realize the vision of computational media, demonstrating the balancing act of weighing the vision against the pragmatics of implementing a working system.