Beyond the Beyond, the blog by Bruce Sterling hosted by Wired, is shutting down this month. It’s been a staple for the blogosphere, so it makes me sad to see it go. Read the farewell post, and – if you were a passenger on the ride – take this moment to reminisce a bit. Also, how nuts is it that Wired didn’t pay for all that content?
Tag: blogs
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Permalinks are design too
If you’re like most people, your permalinks (the permanent links to individual posts) probably look like this:
yourdomain.com/2015/02/24/title-of-post
We’re all familiar with those URLs. The date of the post is explicit, so you need never wonder when it was written, or how recent it is.
Here’s the thing, though: they’re horrible.
Agreed. To me, the permalink structure is as a part of the design. That said, there are sometimes reasons for dates, or at least numbering, in permalinks. They’re used by services such as Google News. That’s not an excuse though.
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WordPress.com's 2014
It’s been a good year for WordPress.com:
Total New Blogs:
18,300,771That’s 49,997 new blogs per day!
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Daring Fireball turns 10
My Twitter feed tells me that Daring Fireball is 10 years old. Congratulations, John Gruber!