The WWW is dying – no, not the web itself, but the ubiquitous WWW prefix on many domains. While there have been efforts to encourage developers to move away from the use of this prefix for some time, this movement seems to be gaining ground.
Matt Mullenweg of WordPress fame has released a plug-in to automatically remove the WWW prefix. While this isn’t earth shattering news, it does show a trend away from the traditional prefixes to a simpler model. A change that I certainly welcome.
From the day this site went online it’s removed the WWW if used, providing a single, optimized URL for all pages. Now that methods to implement such functionality are becoming so simple, I expect it will become even more common as bloggers adopt a single URL model (hopefully the non-WWW form).
During my Christmas vacation last year, I converted this site from WordPress to Hugo; while I’ve been happy with the change, a couple of features are missing. One of these is that there was a section with related content at the bottom of each post. I wanted to get it back.
Thankfully Hugo has native support for Related Content, so while I was hoping this would be a simple task, there’s a note that made things substantially more complicated:
Thomas Rid has delivered with Active Measures, it’s clear, surprisingly entertaining, and extremely well sourced. This is a must-read if you want to understand how disinformation operations work, and more importantly, how we managed to find ourselves in a world where it’s hard to trust anything.
The book starts with the birth of modern disinformation in the 1920s, following the advances, successes and failures, though to the fiasco that was the 2016 elections.
October 28, 2004 is a day I’ll remember for the rest of my life.
I was coding away on the next version of a small product called GSuite that I was building for a tiny (and now nonexistent) software company called Imspire Software. It was a simple tool that provided some goodies for Gmail users, and had a few thousand users (it eventually died as a result of rapid API changes and new tools directly from Google).
Wow! It’s been over a year since this blog o’ mine has seen any activity, though I’ve certainly not forgot about it. A lot has happened in the last year, so I’ll use this post as a bit of an update (and a warm-up for my return to blogging).
I’m not going to promise you’ll see a new post daily as was once the case, though I’ll try to ensure something new is up at least once a week.
