Necessity may be the mother of invention, but the wheel is her most famous child. On its own the wheel is pretty useless, but the system of wheel and axle turned out a pre-historical technological revolution. But when, where, why, by whom and how […]
Category: Technology
Who are you?
From a thread on Bluesky: If we’re being honest the “use your own domain to verify your account” thing is some mastodon shit— Dave Levitan (@davelevitan.bsky.social) Nov 22, 2024 at 4:50 To which I have replied:
Past the Peak: Climate Control
From peak emission to peak population to peak car, we are about to enter a series of turning points. What does this mean? Global peaks 2012: Peak birth2017: Peak ICE car sales2020: Peak child2024: Peak emissions, oil and coal2038: Peak ICE vehicle fleet2040: Peak […]
Retelling the future, chapter 1: The end of the PC
Introduction Coming back to Vivaldi.net has led to me reconnecting to this Vivaldi blog, originally on My.Opera,com beginning 18 years ago. Two months after Facebook, a website that has turned out rather more successful so far. Like every web publication of age, it has […]
Breaking the garden walls
Europe has a social media #infosec issue. Most social media are American, some Chinese, a few Russian. No European. They were taken over by Facebook on its rise. Primary issue is their near monopoly power, but this event highlights that ownership is a risk as well. […]
Changes of address
Addressing is the foundation of everything done on internet, be it email, web or Mastodon. What happens when nobody lives there anymore? — You got new mail address Back when I worked for Opera, I had a proposal for an extension for mail client […]
Building beasts and bridges, a Vivaldi way
This entry builds on this Medium article: On Beasts and Bridges While that article covers the background and philosophy of social media integration, this post and follow-ups, here or on Mastodon is intended to be more practical. I do not know what Vivaldi plans […]
Watch this spacer
It was natural to start off a series on web elements with a vilified element that never made it into any web standard and never will, the spacer. Often elements are made for minute details that nobody, man or machine, are interested in. Should […]
Printing with CSS
I’ve spent more time with other media than print lately, but this article on XML.com, Printing XML: Why CSS Is Better than XSL, is well worth the read. I have no opinion of XSL-FO as a print formatter, relative to for instance Postscript. What […]
HTML withdrawal
Yesterday I finally left the HTML working group. While it was a recent discussion that made me ask myself what was the point in staying, I have grown more disenchanted over the years. Unlike some I don’t agree that XHTML 2.0 is an unmitigated […]
