The Plumbing That Makes the Web Move

Just a Spec

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

1. Introduction (00:00:00)

2. BYOW (Bring Your Own Wiki) (00:03:24)

3. Pico CSS v2 is *awesome* (00:08:05)

4. Local hosting with Caddy (00:10:11)

5. Edit links with macOS/iPadOS URL schemes (00:12:55)

6. Main topic: How the web was/is built (00:14:19)

7. Book: Where Wizards Stay Up Late (00:16:28)

8. Basics of Internet networking (00:17:51)

9. HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2 (00:22:31)

10. HTTP status codes as memes (00:25:02)

11. Parallel requests in browsers, import maps (00:32:10)

12. Websockets (00:36:39)

13. Server-Sent Events (SSE) (00:43:15)

14. Web application layers (standards & convention) (00:48:45)

15. CGI in movies, so…Common Gateway Interface?! (00:51:06)

16. H3 & Nitro (00:54:31)

17. We really do need standardization around JS servers (00:57:42)

18. HTTP is cool, but you really don't want to deal with it directly (00:59:55)

19. And about that DNS… (01:04:29)

20. Outro (01:05:36)