Informing HTTP Extension Design with Data
What 120 million HTTP responses from Common Crawl reveal about how protocol extensions actually get deployed — and what that should tell us when we design new ones.
Mark Nottingham
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So You Want To Define a Well-Known URI
When to reach for a well-known URI — and the traps that catch most protocol designers.
Web Feeds in 2026: A Survey
I looked through Common Crawl and found over 500,000 parseable RSS/Atom feeds, confirming that Web feeds are still a major part of the Open Web. But most aren’t high quality, and autodiscovery often points users at stale or abandoned feeds.
What's Missing in the ‘Agentic’ Story
Every online interaction is a lopsided negotiation. For AI to truly work for us, we need more than just safety -- we need to start building true agency as a form of collective bargaining.
Using AI to Evaluate Internet Standards (Part Two)
Standards work is notoriously hard to track. Let’s explore if grounding AI in working group records can make that history more accessible.