Explains how to create a security.txt for your site

firefox only accounts for 2% of browsers online today?!

Neatnik LLC is a tiny independent internet company run by Adam Newbold that creates small, unique, and fun software projects, including the omg.lol social service, voice blogging tool Spake, and hosting services.

Remember the internet? One millennial’s jaded digital nostalgia.

There is a growing discontent around the current state of the World Wide Web.

Web 1.0 felt like a place of freedom and creativity. Maybe I’m being romantic, for sure had to have its issues… But remember the whimsical sites in Geocities, the simplicity of email discussion lists or the anonymity of IRC?

An educational website featuring a collection of innovations by women in the fields of computer science and technology.

An educational website featuring a collection of innovations by women in the fields of computer science and technology.

My particular talents aren’t exactly oriented towards promoting small things, or building usable small systems. My sense is rather that the question of scale, and smallness, in particular, hasn’t yet been posed fully or correctly. The critical discourses about computers–media theory, science and technology studies, game studies, and so on–have grown up theorizing a technology surround that was getting bigger all the time. It’s time to think well about how to get small.

When I want information, like the real stuff, I go to forums. Over the years, forums did not really get smaller, so much as the rest of the internet just got bigger. Reddit, Discord and Facebook groups have filled a lot of that space, but there is just certain information that requires the dedication of adults who have specifically signed up to be in one kind of community. This blog is a salute to those forums that are either worth participating in or at least looking at in bewilderment.

The internet has become an extractive and fragile monoculture. But we can revitalize it using lessons learned by ecologists.

“Publishing documents to the web is a well-served use case but publishing small indexes, databases and collections to the web is still an incredibly frustrating and under-served use case. Here I outline why I think it matters and a variety of approaches to solving it.”

careful: creates an unlimited amount of CORS error messages in concole ;-)