Just a Spec

The Plumbing That Makes the Web Move

April 30, 2024 Jared White & Ayush Newatia Episode 15
The Plumbing That Makes the Web Move
Just a Spec
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Just a Spec
The Plumbing That Makes the Web Move
Apr 30, 2024 Episode 15
Jared White & Ayush Newatia

Join us for a meaty conversation all about the various levels of specifications and conventions which make the World-Wide Web go: from TCP/IP to HTTP to WebSockets and beyond. We also talk about conventions in various languages and frameworks to enable building web applications servers in a straightforward and portable manner, as well as building a personal knowledge base wiki out of Markdown files and an SSG (Static-Site Generator). Let’s fly!

Hosted by Jared White & Ayush and produced by Intuitive Future

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Join us for a meaty conversation all about the various levels of specifications and conventions which make the World-Wide Web go: from TCP/IP to HTTP to WebSockets and beyond. We also talk about conventions in various languages and frameworks to enable building web applications servers in a straightforward and portable manner, as well as building a personal knowledge base wiki out of Markdown files and an SSG (Static-Site Generator). Let’s fly!

Hosted by Jared White & Ayush and produced by Intuitive Future

Links & Show Notes:

Internet Specs:

Introduction
BYOW (Bring Your Own Wiki)
Pico CSS v2 is *awesome*
Local hosting with Caddy
Edit links with macOS/iPadOS URL schemes
Main topic: How the web was/is built
Book: Where Wizards Stay Up Late
Basics of Internet networking
HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2
HTTP status codes as memes
Parallel requests in browsers, import maps
Websockets
Server-Sent Events (SSE)
Web application layers (standards & convention)
CGI in movies, so…Common Gateway Interface?!
H3 & Nitro
We really do need standardization around JS servers
HTTP is cool, but you really don't want to deal with it directly
And about that DNS…
Outro