Archive // Files 016–009
Articles
Notes on the web, its machinery and the choices hiding underneath.
- File // 016
One page, arriving in pieces
Streaming HTML changes when the reader can begin, not only how long the transfer takes.
- File // 015
The quiet work of finding an address
Resolvers, records and the chain of questions behind a familiar domain.
- File // 014
The photograph costs more than the page
A closer look at the largest request in an otherwise careful interface.
- File // 013
There is no div for courage
Semantic HTML asks you to decide what the thing is before styling it.
- File // 012
A lock icon is the start of the story
What transport security protects, and what it never promised to.
- File // 011
The page has more than one clock
Network time, parse time and the moment an interface becomes trustworthy.
- File // 010
A header is a small policy document
Caching, privacy and intent compressed into a few terse lines.
- File // 009
Delete the build step, keep the discipline
What plain files simplify and which problems they leave squarely with you.