Jay Hoffmann

Director of Web Development, Reaktiv. But really I’m a web history geek @ http://thehistoryoftheweb.com

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2025-03-27 16:14:50 UTC

Had some thoughts about centralization today
https://jayhoffmann.com/posts/centralization/

2024-07-23 16:43:43 UTC

Cool URLs Mean Something
Earlier this month, MTV News abruptly pulled their site off the web without warning, eliminating a virtual archive of pop culture news stories that date back to 1997.
But URLs actually do mean something. The hyperlink is important. We should try and preserve it.
https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/cool-urls-mean-something/

2024-06-17 13:56:56 UTC

via Maggie Appleton, on bridging the gap between the power that LLM tools bring to programming and the amatuer no-code programmers who stand to benefit.
If you can take people like that, and empower them with tools that allow them to actually build software, there are so many small applications they can build to serve their individual needs. And we're right on the edge of it.
https://maggieappleton.com/home-cooked-software