9. The Web We Know Is Going to Disappear (www.minid.net)

Every generation of computing believes the interface it loves will last forever. It never does. I saw information move from floppy disks to BBSs, from BBSs to the Web, from the Web to Flash, from Flash back to open standards, from websites to mobile apps, and now from search engines to AI chat interfaces. The Web will not vanish overnight, but the Web as we know it, the open place where people search, click, read, browse, publish, and discover, is already being replaced by something more convenient, more centralized, and much harder to escape.

22. Show HN: Zero Browser (github.com)

Browser System With Zero HTML/CSS/JS. Contribute to nz366/zero_browser development by creating an account on GitHub.

24. Flip TABLE: storing arbitrary data in iNaturalist (exclav.es)

A few weeks ago, my friend Marcos ran an event called FLIP TABLE, celebrating unconventional database technology, including Strava, steganography, encoded number puzzles, and hair.
I wanted to do something with iNaturalist. Could a database be made out of species? Or observations of species? What if my to-do list was biodiverse?
My FLIP TABLE demo app, "YouDidIt.Bio"* answers all of these questions.
Every observation on iNaturalist has a unique ID, which I have previously used to embed iNaturalist easily into this very blog you are reading now.

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