http://simonwillison.net/2024-11-30T18:22:06+00:00Simon Willison2024-11-30T18:22:06+00:002024-11-30T18:22:06+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/30/the-engagement-is-better-on-bluesky/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="https://bsky.social/about/blog/11-29-2024-engagement">The Engagement Is Better on Bluesky</a></strong></p> It’s deeply sad that “we don’t penalize people for sharing links” can be a differentiating feature for a social media platform these days, but here we are. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/links">links</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/social-media">social-media</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/twitter">twitter</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/bluesky">bluesky</a></p>

2024-06-22T14:15:54+00:002024-06-22T14:15:54+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2024/Jun/22/wikipedia-manual-of-style-linking/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Linking">Wikipedia Manual of Style: Linking</a></strong></p> I started <a href="https://fedi.simonwillison.net/@simon/112657927527940565">a conversation on Mastodon</a> about the grammar of linking: how to decide where in a phrase an inline link should be placed.</p> <p>Lots of great (and varied) replies there. The most comprehensive style guide I've seen so far is this one from Wikipedia, via Tom Morris. <p><small></small>Via <a href="https://mastodon.social/@tommorris/112658974488727954">Tom Morris</a></small></p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/links">links</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/wikipedia">wikipedia</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/writing">writing</a></p>

2024-05-12T14:15:41+00:002024-05-12T14:15:41+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2024/May/12/link-in-bio-is-a-slow-knife/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="https://www.anildash.com//2019/12/10/link-in-bio-is-how-they-tried-to-kill-the-web/">“Link In Bio” is a slow knife</a></strong></p> Anil Dash writing in 2019 about how Instagram’s “link in bio” thing (where users cannot post links to things in Instagram posts or comments, just a single link field in their bio) is harmful for linking on the web.</p> <p>Today it’s even worse. TikTok has the same culture, and LinkedIn and Twitter both algorithmically de-boost anything with a URL in it, encouraging users to share screenshots (often unsourced) rather than linking to content and reducing their distribution.</p> <p>It’s gross. <p><small></small>Via <a href="https://mastodon.social/@mhoye/112428510848577054">@mhoye</a></small></p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/anil-dash">anil-dash</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/linkedin">linkedin</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/links">links</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/social-media">social-media</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/twitter">twitter</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/tiktok">tiktok</a></p>

2010-05-06T20:53:00+00:002010-05-06T20:53:00+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2010/May/6/understand/#atom-tag

<blockquote cite="http://benward.me/blog/understand-the-web"><p>Want to know if your ‘HTML application’ is part of the web? Link me into it. Not just link me to it; link me into it. Not just to the black-box frontpage. Link me to a piece of content. Show me that it can be crawled, show me that we can draw strands of silk between the resources presented in your app. That is the web: The beautiful interconnection of navigable content</p></blockquote> <p class="cite">&mdash; <a href="http://benward.me/blog/understand-the-web">Ben Ward</a></p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ben-ward">ben-ward</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/html">html</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/links">links</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/web">web</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/webapps">webapps</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/recovered">recovered</a></p>

2009-10-08T08:26:08+00:002009-10-08T08:26:08+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2009/Oct/8/breaking/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://mike.teczno.com/notes/breaking-links.html">breaking links</a></strong></p> Mike complains about sites such as Twitter and WordPress.com which mess around with Ajax and links and hence breaks the ability to command-click to open a new tab in Safari (and Chrome). I just realised that I’ve subconsciously retrained myself to right click and select “open in new tab” to avoid that exact issue. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ajax">ajax</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/broken">broken</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/javascript">javascript</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/links">links</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/michal-migurski">michal-migurski</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/usability">usability</a></p>

2009-06-10T02:11:30+00:002009-06-10T02:11:30+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2009/Jun/10/styling/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://natbat.net/2009/Jun/10/styling-buttons-as-links/">Styling buttons to look like links</a></strong></p> Nat has a neat trick for styling submit buttons to look like regular links—so there’s absolutely no excuse for using a “delete” link when you should be using a POST request. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/buttons">buttons</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/css">css</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/forms">forms</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/getpost">getpost</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/http">http</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/links">links</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/natalie-downe">natalie-downe</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/post">post</a></p>