All you need is links

All you need is links

When Tim Berners Lee talks about how he designed the web, he uses an analogy from physics, describing his process as a quest to find “fundamental laws” which can generate a desired system:

All you need is links

When Tim Berners Lee talks about how he designed the web, he uses an analogy from physics, describing his process as a quest to find “fundamental laws” which can generate a desired system:

Building Glass for the Web

How we built a cross-browser glass effect for the web, and how it shapes a family of components.

Systems design 3: LLMs and the semantic revolution

Long ago in the 1990s when I was in high school, my chemistry+physics teacher pulled me aside. "Avery, you know how the Internet works, righ...

How the Web Was Lost – James Gleick

This Is for Everyone: The Unfinished Story of the World Wide Webby Tim Berners-Lee with Stephen WittFarrar, Straus and Giroux, 389 pp., $30

🌿 Foraging in High-Dimensional Data

My talk from the Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute 2025 on how we can draw from thinking in complex systems science and game design to heal our relationship to the Web.

Reimagining the Browser for a Green Web - Branch

The web must operate within planetary limits by phasing out fossil fuels, and reducing absolute emissions across supply chains.

Semble — Make sense of the web, together

A place for mapping the web, connecting ideas, and building shared knowledge.

How might a browser be developed?

There’s a confluence of things that have happened recently that have made me question how browsers might be developed: On January 8th 2026, Simon Willison predicted that someone will build a browser using mainly AI-assisted tools within 3 years On January 27th 2026, one human and one agent built a browser from scratch (great experiments) On the 19th February 2026, news came out that Taalas had a chip that can spit out nearly 17,000 tokens per second by baking a model onto the chip. I would like to indulge in a little bit of projection and in my case, some science fiction of my own.

The Blog of Maxime Heckel

Hi I'm Maxime, and this is my blog. In here, you'll find all the articles I wished I had when I was learning about web development, shaders, real-time 3D on the web, and more. Each piece I write aims to dive deep into the topics I'm passionate about, while also making complex topics more accessible through interactive playgrounds, visualization, and well detailed walkthroughs. My goal is to give you the tools and intuition to explore further on your own.

On forking the Web

This document contains a set of informal notes on how to build an alternative specification to the Web, in such a way that hopefully prevents many of its drawbacks while still preserves many of the good points. This document is not an specification, and is therefore subject to change over time.

Webdesign as architecture

An attempt at modelling digital design as a form of psychological architecture, taking the form of a single HTML document.

Agentic Engineering Patterns - Simon Willison's Weblog

Patterns for getting the best results out of coding agents like Claude Code and OpenAI Codex. See my introduction for more on this project.

Making Space for a Handmade Web | Figma Blog

There’s a resurgence of small, handcrafted sites challenging the current trajectory of the internet. Joining the movement is as simple as making your own.