Internet (3 blogmarks)

One of my favorite things to see when I'm looking at someone's blog or website is a "Start Here" page. As a first time visitor, this is a great way to get oriented. What do I need to know about you? What's something you want me to see? Show me one of your best/favorite blog posts? Etc.

I don't see this used as often as I'd like. Here are a few people that are doing it well:

• swyx's about page

• Jake Worth does something similar on his About page

• I've always thought of Patio11's Greatest Hits page as doing this well

I can tell that I've had my head in LLM research papers a lot lately because I saw the title of this post ("Attention is all you have") and thought it looked a lot like Attention Is All You Need.

And that is related to opening illustration of the blog post which says that if you focus on something enough in a short span of time, you start to see that thing everywhere and in everything.

Anyway, what the post is really about is reclaiming the aspects of the internet where we are in control of our attention instead of the ones that hijack it.

The good thing is that this intentional internet is still around. It has just been a bit buried below the corporate web, but it’s not very hard to find. After all you’re on this blog, so you probably already have a good idea about it.

I was unfamiliar with this metric and I wish I could have been posed the question and made a guess before I saw the headline.

Prince posted on X that automated traffic now accounts for 57.3% of worldwide HTTP requests to HTML content, compared with 42.7% for humans, according to Cloudflare’s data.

It has been about 2 months since that was posted and if you look at the stats on Cloudflare now, you’ll see that the non-human traffic numbers fluctuate between 60% and 65%.