Essays
#Hypermedia and REST
- HATEOAS
- How Did REST Come To Mean The Opposite of REST?
- Two Approaches To Decoupling
- Hypermedia APIs vs. Data APIs
- Splitting Your Data & Application APIs: Going Further
- Hypermedia Clients
- HATEOAS Is For Humans
- Rescuing REST From the API Winter
- Taking HTML Seriously
- REST Copypasta
- The #ViewSource Affordance
- Hypermedia Controls: Feral to Formal (ACM HT’24)
#Why Hypermedia? Why Multi-Page Applications?
- Hypermedia On Whatever you’d Like (HOWL)
- A Response To “Have SPAs Ruined The Web”
- When To Use Hypermedia?
- The API Churn/Security Trade-off
- Does Hypermedia Scale?
- SPA Alternative
#Real World htmx Experiences
- A Real World React to htmx Port
- Another Real World React to htmx Port
- Next.js to htmx — A Real World Example
- You Can’t Build Interactive Web Apps Except as Single Page Applications… And Other Myths
#On The Other Hand…
#Building Hypermedia Applications
- Hypermedia-Driven Applications (HDAs)
- Web Security Basics (with htmx)
- Hypermedia Friendly Scripting
- 10 Tips For Building SSR/HDA applications
- Why I Tend Not To Use Content Negotiation
- Template Fragments
- Web Components Work Great with htmx
- View Transitions
- Model/View/Controller
- Is Rendering JSON More Efficient Than Rendering HTML?
- Is JSON Smaller Than HTML?
#Complexity Very, Very Bad
- The Grug Brained Developer
- Codin’ Dirty
- Locality of Behavior (LoB)
- Complexity Budget
- Why htmx Does Not Have a Build Step
- Is htmx Just Another JavaScript Framework?
- htmx Implementation Deep Dive (Video)
- Prefer If Statements to Polymorphism, etc.
#Hypermedia History
- A File Structure For The Complex, The Changing and the Indeterminate (Ted Nelson, 1965)
- The Mother Of All Demos (Doug Englebart, 1968)
- The First Web Page (1991)
- Architectural Styles and the Design of Network-based Software Architectures (Roy Fielding, 2000)
- State of the Art Review on Hypermedia Issues and Applications (2006) [archive]
- Interview: Henning Koch, Creator of Unpoly
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#Memes
