A personal blog by Emelia Smith covering web standards work, the Fediverse and AT Protocol debate, and personal essays on identity and growing up in rural Australia. Readers get first-hand insight into how W3C and Social Web standards are shaped, along with reflective writing on her career and experiences.
Website: https://writings.thisismissem.social/
This newsletter from an Irish security writer covers .ie domain internet infrastructure, including measurements of security.txt adoption across roughly 187,000 .ie domains and a tool for monitoring newly issued .ie certificates. It also lists upcoming cybersecurity conferences in Ireland and Northern Ireland.
A Korean software development blog that mixes web standards commentary with civic and legal analysis, such as a look at whether non-alcoholic beer can be sold to minors under Korean law. Its posts pair a clear personal point of view with close reading of rules and standards.
Updates from the IPFS Foundation on its protocols and grant programs, including DASL, the Data Utilities Grants, and browser support for decentralized web primitives. Readers get news on governance changes, grant outcomes, and technical explainers on standards such as protocol handler registration.
Rylan Barnes publishes essays exploring how the web might be rebuilt from first principles, covering cross-platform UI design, testing approaches for reactive interfaces, and the shortcomings of single-page applications. The writing is a reflective series with a clear point of view, though the excerpts show a personal project narrative more than broadly applicable reporting.
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