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First Principles of the Web

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A draft book argues that the web has one fundamentally web-native architecture: data-centric, declarative, and graph-based.

Why it surfaced

Martynas Jusevičius lays out 23 chapters examining everything from single-page applications to knowledge graphs, then claims the answer was standardized decades ago in RDF, SPARQL, XSLT, and CSS. The book is also designed to embody its own argument, with each proposition intended to have its own address.

Lunch Through the Bee Veil

August 11’s newborn domains include a bee veil with a lockable lunch flap, a book designed to unfold over ten years, a Colombian missing-person and aid board, and a brick studio made by a dad and his 10-year-old co-founder.

This is one of 1,000 discoveries in the 2026-08-11 Domain Arrivals issue.