Vowel Now Sends Webmentions

10/18/2024

Vowel now has rudimntary support for webmentions. This allows your website to communicate with the rest of the internet.

A Trail of Breadcrumbs

7/8/2024

Link: Breadcrumb Navigation Increasingly Useful

The breadcrumb is a wonderful, humble UI element. As Jakob Nielsen explains in this article from 2007, breadcrumbs show users their current location r

Long Live the URL

6/27/2024

Link: URL as UI

Users continue to type and guess URLs and domain names, so Web usability can be improved by better URLs. In the long term this machine-level addressing scheme must be hidden.

This article from 1999 about how to write good URLs is awesome. Some tips:

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Vowel Now Sends Webmentions

A Trail of Breadcrumbs

Breadcrumb Navigation Increasingly Useful

Long Live the URL

URL as UI