"Djot is a light markup syntax. It derives most of its features from commonmark, but it fixes a few things that make commonmark's syntax complex and difficult to parse efficiently."
Modern Information Retrieval is also a classic reference. Not openly available but some contents are (were?) available online. Their site seems to be down but the Internet Archive has a copy.
"When iPhone users with iOS 14, the latest iPhone software, type a query into the search window, Apple now shows its own search results instead of Google’s. It also displays auto-complete style suggestions, highlighting how it is learning from users most common search queries. However, few are likely to have noticed the change."
I don't understand Hacker News. Tim Bray's post on Break Up Google was buried and not visible on HN's front page. The next day this on Visa-MasterCard post shows up on the top with a "forget Google" comment. Why?
Is this a result from the community or the algorithm?
HN seems to have changed a lot in the last few years.
"[Tokyo Shimbun, a metropolitan daily,] also said people shouldn't make the V-sign with their hand, which Japanese often do in photos, because fingerprints could be stolen."
Static Site Generators seem like a perfect fit.