Links #133

Alex Chan on using static websites for tiny archives. Ooh, I really like this idea. I’m now planning to do this with my personal apps (to do list, journals, notes, etc.), having them regularly export static site archives. (I already archive the database files, but an HTML export is a lot more usable and would work without the app needing to run and without the user needing to know how the database is structured, which is nice.)

Rachel Andrew on Chrome’s new support for adding content to page margins (like page numbers, as part of the CSS Paged Media spec). Exciting to see this start happening! I’ve been waiting a while for browsers to start implementing this, making Paged.js less necessary. Hoping the other browsers follow suit soon.

Sean Voisen on reading at whim. I have lists of books I want to read — several lists, in fact — and update them daily, but even then, what I read next almost always comes down to whim. I feel like it’s working out okay.

Keith Cirkel on not having time to learn React. I like and echo his advice on studying web platform fundamentals, learning a strongly typed systems language, and reading specs.

MIT is offering free tuition to students whose families make under $200k/year. Wow.

Michael Walther on ETH Zürich’s new method for printing buildings with earth-based materials. Also see this article by Rupendra Brahambhatt about it, with more details. Very cool.

HTML for People, by Blake Watson. If you want to learn HTML and start making websites, this seems like a good first step.