The Plumbing That Makes the Web Move

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:

• Follow Just a Spec on Mastodon
• The Spicy Web & That HTML Blog
• Whitefusion web studio (ready for hire!)
• The Rails and Hotwire Codex, updated!

Internet Specs:

• TCP/IP
• HTTP
• WebSocket
• Server-Sent Events (SSE)
• Old-school: Comet
• Old-school: CGI (Common Gateway Interface)
• Ruby: Rack
• JavaScript: H3 & Nitro
• Book: Where Wizards Stay Up Late
• ICANN and the 7 Keys to the Internet
• Episode 6: TIL About gTLDs, FTW!
• IANA Key Signing Ceremonies

Chapters

• 0:00 Introduction
• 3:24 BYOW (Bring Your Own Wiki)
• 8:05 Pico CSS v2 is *awesome*
• 10:11 Local hosting with Caddy
• 12:55 Edit links with macOS/iPadOS URL schemes
• 14:19 Main topic: How the web was/is built
• 16:28 Book: Where Wizards Stay Up Late
• 17:51 Basics of Internet networking
• 22:31 HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2
• 25:02 HTTP status codes as memes
• 32:10 Parallel requests in browsers, import maps
• 36:39 Websockets
• 43:15 Server-Sent Events (SSE)
• 48:45 Web application layers (standards & convention)
• 51:06 CGI in movies, so…Common Gateway Interface?!
• 54:31 H3 & Nitro
• 57:42 We really do need standardization around JS servers
• 59:55 HTTP is cool, but you really don't want to deal with it directly
• 1:04:29 And about that DNS…
• 1:05:36 Outro