sure! its veryla.io - would love to hear your feedback

The fact that it loads essentially immediately is a major selling point.

I ran a quick test, averaged 268 milliseconds. Yep, that's "essentially immediately.

We forget how fast the web can be, because of all the bloated sites out there.

> Remember when sites used to serve requests based on the browser identifier rather than trying to contemporaneously display and format text with jscript?

I remember when my window to the world was a 56k modem, which took its sweet time to load the page I wanted.

i've had to use 56k in the last ten years for a primary connection. I used pfsense to cache and compress as much as possible, but more interestingly to me, i use 3K with PACTOR radio modems way more often. A "you have no new mail" handshake and chatter takes minutes[1].

This all ignores that spoken word over a mediocre connection (anything except actual copper landlines, in my - get off my lawn - opinion) is way lower bandwidth than even early modems in the 300-2400 baud range. Realistically, my favorite method of communication is to actually have a spoken word conversation with people, in person. This is untenable for my friends that have moved away from me, and me from other friends. That in mind, the matrix people have worked on and have published extensions to the matrix ecosystem that allow sub-kilobyte messages to pass on the network, fully encrypted and fully fledged messages. They are targeting sub 4000 baud connections (in general, i think their actual goal is much slower transmission than that).

I don't have the time or inclination to try and run a matrix "node" on ham bands, but i do know it is technically possible. And that's almost good enough for me.

For your edification though, the last time i used only a 56k connection was back in the very late 90s, and i spent a lot of time on IRC rather than "the world wide web"

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DA6JRB560eM A youtube video shot handheld of a radio and a modem checking email wireless-like. The modem, i've heard, is around $800. I got it for free to participate in emergency communications and teach other people how to use it.

We’re targetting 75-100bps for ultra-low-bandwidth Matrix for HF. The main missing piece has been sync v3, but this is almost done now.

I don't know if you will see this, or if you're using the "royal we", but if there's anything i can do to test using ultra-low bandwidth matrix over packet/PACTOR radio on HF; i'd be very interested.

Unfortunately, none of it can be encrypted (not with my license, at least) - but for sending telemetry or simple "i'm still alive" messages i think it would be pretty cool. Not having to write custom tooling off ham radio "tools" like fldigi, but rather have a bot sitting somewhere else monitoring the channel seems like a huge, huge win.

we = matrix core team. totally understood that crypto is not an option, which is arguably good news for ultra low bandwidth: compresses better and no aead headers :)

there should be another round of work on this fairly soon driven by our p2p work - #p2p:matrix.org is probably the best place to follow along, likewise arewep2pyet.com

Clickable: https://veryla.io

Nice design, I find it refreshing :)

I like what you've done, nice job.

Without making the page too cluttered, you've got room to expand the design in terms of width and I think the entries could benefit from a timestamp of some manner (Thursday 5/12).

Basically let people know that it's fresh, beyond the slogan at the top.

Then snapshot the page weekly (pick a date to do an end of week snapshot), and provide archives for browsing / searching. That could either be all historical weeks, or merely recent (a month or three deep).

I didn’t look into why, but a long press on a link should open a menu on an iDevice (e.g. to be open a menu in the background). [About] works correctly. [Dingbat Apartments] does’t work.

Your “veryLA” heading could perhaps do with a trigger warning for fontheads: the kerning looks erratic even to mine engineer type eyes;

As I said upthread, love this design, but I sure did see that, and sure did get mildly triggered.

It would be more cohesive to have it in a monospace font to match the rest of the website. And probably not on an arc, as that's going to be relatively difficult to manually kern using CSS transforms. Maybe a little bit of a perspective distort instead, give it an almost isometric style.

thanks for the heads up. fixed that :)

Very well done! This was a breath of fresh air compared to most sites these days. How often do the links change and how much time do you typically spend each week curating?

Thanks! I typically do a complete refresh on Sunday night / Monday morning and will pepper in a couple links throughout the week (not always though). I have a bunch of stuff I’ve saved through the years so that helps, but sometimes curating can take 4-8 hours a week.

What does that curating process look like?

amazing, thanks! Having a website load so fast is really refreshing.

When you get a minute, would you put an RSS feed for your blog? I want to read your articles.

thanks for the feedback - put some endpoints for rss - one for an alert when the homepage of links is updated [1] and one for when the blog page is updated [2]

[1] veryla.io/feed

[2] veryla.io/stories/feed

Love the link about hidden oil wells, had no idea!

Do you have an RSS feed?

just made one! one for an alert when the homepage of links is updated [1] and one for when the blog page is updated [2]

[1] veryla.io/feed

[2] veryla.io/stories/feed