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How everyone came to hate tech companies

At The Financial Times, Cory Doctorow (previously!) elaborates on enshittification, the term he coined for the process whereby products and services decay in quality when the companies behind them have…

We are spending more of our time on Instagram, X and the like consuming content instead of producing it

TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat & Co: Während Australien es bereits durchgezogen hat und Spanien, Frankreich und auch deutsche Parteien über Social-Media-Verbote für unter 14- oder 16-Jährige diskutieren, ist für viele junge Menschen das Netz ein Ort, an dem sie sich gesehen und sicher fühlen und die wichtigste Quelle für politische Information. Wir sprechen darüber, warum der Vergleich von Social Media mit Rauchen und Alkohol hinkt – und weshalb Social Media für viele Jugendliche Bildung, politisches Bewusstsein, Freundschaften und Zugehörigkeit ermöglicht. Eine Studie der Bertelsmann-Stiftung zeigt: 74 Prozent der jungen Menschen in Deutschland informieren sich politisch über Social Media – mehr als über Schule, Familie oder Freund:innen.Marina, die selbst ein "Internetkind" ist, spricht über reale Gefahren und echte Lösungen.

So a while ago, Reddit enshittified after taking PE money. Turned off the APIs, blocked third-party apps, etc. And the official app is a really shitty ad-laden experience. So. Do you have A Macinto…

We have systems to filter our water. Now we need systems to filter our tech

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From whale oil to AI agents - each technological wave promises liberation but arrives before we've adapted to the last one. What Moby Dick, Dracula, The Matrix, and Mad Max can tell us about the current moment.

Of course I do; I’m writing this on a blog in 2023.

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There’s been a lot of buzz about GUI stuff lately, which made mebriefly reflect on the state of the art and share something I’ve beenworking on as of late.

The rationing pattern we documented at Anthropic is now happening everywhere. Subsidize, addict, extract. The playbook is structural, not company-specific.

Or why certain schemes to progressify the human condition are doomed

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A list of good things about 2023.

Adventures in vintage computers and retrogaming. Includes articles on classic games and obsolete computers.

Or how my quest to buy a bridesmaid dress ruined by day

In light of all the promise that AI will

Claude limits are the itch. The bigger problem is that the subsidized part of the AI cycle is starting to look familiar.

Thoughts on Intentionally Leveraging Popular Generative AI Tools

These organizations provide real value to my digital life. If you’ve ever considered supporting them, now is a good time. Most make donating or subscribing simp...

Five “angels-on-the-shoulder” AI designs that help people make better decisions.

In my never ending quest to become the "Master of Nothing", I recently picked up some skills (and thoughts) with yet another blogging platform.

Believe it or not, there was a time when Microsoft had taste, and even innovated.

Mark Carrigan, proposes Bluesky as a plausible alternative to Twitter, but questions whether we are now in a period of constant social media migration.

Cory Doctorow named it. You have lived it. Every platform begins by being useful, then monetises its users, then monetises its business customers, then dies.

I have thoughts on the recent talk about a small, personal web revival - and not all of them coherent.

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What it really means to be serverless.

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In indigenous societies human scale groups are those who we regularly rely on for mutual aid and assistance. In small societies without abstract formal authorities, everyone learns from everyone. T…

In indigenous societies human scale groups are those who we regularly rely on for mutual aid and assistance. In small societies without abstract formal authorities, everyone learns from everyone. T…

Let's figure out what matters and how to get it

Dear reader, I’m planning to leave WhatsApp at the end of this month, and switch fully to Signal, a much more private and ethical messaging app. The decision...

A few weeks ago, I replied to a thread on Hacker News about a "leaked" talk by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt. The key phrase ...

What’s the deal with the uncanny valley?

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on solitude, privacy, and the exhaustion of living in a world that refuses to let us be alone.

I was recently doing several searches on the public World Wide Web around some niche technical topics. The search results were straight disappointing. The search topics and terms would lead to very specific, canonical documents, ones that have so many inbound links that preferring any other documents from a ranking standpoint would be lunacy — in a sane and just world that is. One we don’t live in, though: so many of the highly-ranked links were ad farms that contained LLM-generated junk.

I’ve been a huge fan of IndieWeb since I stumbled upon it one fateful day. While the specifics of how I found it are lost in the annals of history, my willingness to use it in every project has never abated. Well, the bits I understand at any rate. This is why I bring up […]

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Three Things #97: December 10, 2023

A couple days ago I was emailed by Pema about her thesis paper,

New visitors to kinopio (and search engine robots) will see a new static About Kinopio page when visiting the site.

I’ve been pulling back on social media lately. And anyone who has had a longer than 1-hour conversation with me knows that I hate big box brands (Google, Amazon, Meta, X, anything that has “AI” in its…

It’s taken me months to individually contact the majority my 3,100+ connections in my LinkedIn network via the direct messaging option.

Intuition tells us that certain ideas are good, but using the impact matrix described in this article tells a very different story.

What options are there other than GitHub?

I no longer feel any pull towards Twitter.

It turns out friction matters. We often seek to eliminate friction through convenience. But we forget that convenience isn't a free lunch.

Using PocketID for passwordless authentication for my Linkding instance. I have self-hosted various services for years. The primary reason for this is so that I have control over these and they do not change under my feet (whether in terms of feature set, pricing, hardware requirements, etc). This has generally included a 'read-it-later' service. I find such a service…

The developers have no incentive to enshittify the app!

Lately, I find myself missing the dynamic start pages we used to set for our browsers in the late 1990s. The ones I liked eventually turned into search engines, got crapped up by ads, or just plain went away. All of the above, in many cases. For a while, I didn’t miss them, because feed readers and synchronized bookmarks kind of took their place, for the most part. But now I find myself wanting to go back to that, because feed readers and synchronized bookmarks don’t work the way I want them to anymore.

Last week I presented a speech at Linux Day 2025, in Prato, about meta-search engines. Specifically, I was talking about SearXNG. While preparing the slides for the speech, I came across articles talking about “AI Overview”, the new feature/product by Google Search giving out answers for your queries in a LLM generated box on top of standard search results. According to many sources, AI Overview has already had a great impact on websites’ traffic across many industries since its release: notably, newspapers and websites giving out generic information such as Wikipedia, have seen their traffic reduced. Preliminary research on the topic seems to confirm this trend.

Lend me a hand - I'm juggling too much stuff.

Looking into Fandom, its use of user-created work, its business model and how we - as the Internet denizens can make the wiki world more bearable

I built a webring for personal websites.

Depuis quelques mois, j’essaye d’écrire un billet sur le greenwashing (“écoblanchiment” comme on dirait au Québec). Et forcément, ça prend du temps, parce que j’ai souvent tendance à me perdre dans toutes sortes de détails… et là encore, ça n’a pas manqué. Mais je vais déjà poser les bases, en décrivant cet écosystème qui lui … Continue reading L’écosystème du bruit et la fabrique de l’autorité →

Percussive learning in a world of automation

I generally dislike the typical public software company model because they seem to always suffer from enshittification, which is also known as crapification...

The Amazon Kindle is an amazing product that revolutionised the world of reading when it was launched in 2007. Sadly, it is now time for me to completely leave this ecosystem. Happily, there are other, non-shitty ecosystems that you can get into instead. More on all that in a minute. Long-

Free for fans, dirt cheap for artists and then make more money on every sale. Built by musicians for music scenes.

Kagi has quickly grown into something of a household name within tech circles. From Hacker News and Lobsters to Reddit, the search provider seems to attract near-universal praise. Whenever the topic of search engines comes up, there’s an almost ritual rush to be the first to recommend Kagi, often followed by a chorus of replies echoing the endorsement.

I’ve been trying to find a good replacement for Arc and got reminded of how hard it is to find a good option for a browser.

I've been working as a software engineer for a number of years now, at the same company I joined after graduating as an undergrad. I'm reasonably happy with ...

This is a longer post, here’s the main ideas: I don’t trust OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Facebook, Apple or any of the companies producing the …

As you may have already heard, GitHub just got less independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation. What does this mean? Well, I guess nobody knows for certain but it probably will mean that GitHub would degrade as a service. As a business, profit and growth are the main focus of Microsoft, so everything else becomes...

Recreating a positive #socialmedia experience needs complex, #interdisciplinary work. It's not enough to just be technically better on the #Fediverse: we have to change social norms, too, if we're to have any hope of abating the enshittification. CW for mentions of misogyny and queerphobia.

Intro The Game is the Game. Always. (Avon Barksdale / Marlo Stanfield, The Wire) Some things change and some things stay the same in the tech industry. The two major themes I’ve seen the past…

The 2010s was a period of the internet colonized by platforms, which caused 'enshittification' of web products. Users and developers both suffered, but are fighting back now through the decentralized web.

Systemic oversight, or active deprioritisation?

I recently became a parent for the first time, as my wife and I welcomed a beautiful baby boy into our lives in January of this year.

Following my review of last year… here’s my New Years Resolutions for 2024 which follows on from 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008 ones.…

We live surrounded by metrics

A decade of e-readers, my hunt for privacy in the digital reading world.

You might be here because the Facebook feed has been useless for years now. You might be here because Twitter has finally gotten bad enough. Or maybe you're just curious what else is out there.

Here's a familiar pattern I’ve seen play out more than once. Recently, Anthropic reduced Claude’s usage limits after someone started consuming way more resources than expected. That’s understandabl...

What if we're becoming the cable company of countries?

The idea of writing programs for hackers

Learn how to replace GitHub Pages with SourceHut Builds, Bunny Storage, and Bunny CDN. Set up a static site workflow with a complete GitHub migration guide.

What options are there other than GitHub?

I spent a few hours this week reading around AI and formulating my thoughts into coherent sentences. This is what I've got so far. I'd love to know what you think. Am I right? Am I being naive, or just sceptical enough? What am I missing? A bit of context and a disclaimer: my remit | I spent a few hours this week reading around AI and formulating my thoughts into coherent sentences. This is what I've got so far. I'd love to know what you think. Am I right? Am I being naive, or just sceptical enough? What am I missing? A bit of context and a disclaimer: my remit

This is probably the longest post I have written on this blog. While that is not saying much, it is still a long read. This has been ste...

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What should you expect when getting a domain name?

Some thoughts on the AI generated music: YouTube Music is actively suggesting/recommending music generated by AI and it's become a frustration point. The ...

In today's post, I want to return once again to the tsunami that is breaking against humanity--the rise and frenzy of Generative AI. It has been an intense few years--to say the least--and GenAI has continued to dominate our local, national, and international discourse. As we are in the midst of this technology revolution that

Attackers explain how an anti-spam defense became an AI weapon.

A look back through my journey around the sun

Jellyfin is my favorite service to self host, I’ve been using it for movies & books and I’d even consider using it for photos if not for Immich. Jellyfin is really popular as a self hosted streaming service for movies & TV shows, since those platforms suffer heavily from enshittification. Jellyfin can do much more than stream your favorite movies & TV shows. Whether you’re a movie enthusiast, music lover, or photo fanatic, Jellyfin has got you covered.

Various thoughts on programming and technology.

Not AI, just a favorite On my recent visit to London I was struck by how many of the advertisements in the Tube were selling AI. They fell ...

Following a quip on LinkedIn about the introduction of Recall in Copilot+ and Kevin Beaumont’s great piece about why this is a really bad idea from a security point of view, I got thinking: This is dystopian techno-fascism Kevin posited a disconnect in Microsoft that led to the creation of this feature and whether people really wanted it. Personally, I’ve got a brain like a sieve and would not know the command line without ~/.

After the fantastic experience of speaking at Agile on the Beach 2023 a year before, I was back for more agile. This meant more driving: again I took the motorway barge for the long road trip from the North West to almost the tip of the South West. For international readers, when I say North West, I mean England, somewhere near Preston, and the South West is in pretty Falmouth, Kernow (Cornwall).

I've used KDE on Fedora Linux for a few years now. It's an absolute delight to use, and I've watched it improve steadily over time. While many things in t...

Greed ruined a lot of great software out there and enshittification is a real deal among acquired companies… Is there anything we could do about it?

Techno-solutionism, the aesthetic appeal of dystopian chic, or the promise of quick financial gains can blind us to the implications of our choices and actions.

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Many years ago, when Google already existed but wasn’t a verb yet, I wrote a research paper for uni about online media. I wish I had that paper and especially the sources I used (academic art…

The mismanagment of big tech monopolies is impoverishing the world. We should do something about it.

A blog by Anuj Ahooja

Going all-in on local-first with a new commercial-use license for sustainable growth.

Slop relief

In part one, on thinking machines, I explored two facets of the philosophy of artificial intelligence: “intelligence”, and consciousness. That left an important topic to consider for this post: the impact of artificial intelligence on work. No technology has ever “stolen a job”. Not once. Technology automates and enables tasks. Some of these tasks were...

So there’s this “Feedle” thing: a search engine of RSS feeds.

(US-centric post.) We’ve finally gotten Social Security beneifts turned on and straightened out. Also, Medicare. It was not easy!

Things I want to remember - James Wallace Harris

Benjamin Blundell, benjamin.computer. I make things with computers

Enshittification has lead the web astray. The tightly centralized, corporate web has been spiraling out of control. Everything is content, everything is reactions, everything is "a following", everything is influencing. It given rise to algorithms that reinforce political and ideological echo chambers to the point of violence. People self-censor their speech, even in the real world, because they are so intertwined with the digital world.

Being your own label in 2025 (is confusing) - Kristoffer Lislegaard

There's been a lot of talk lately about Meta's antitrust trial. But one discussion subject subject in particular has been stuck in my brain for weeks now, ever since early May. Specifically, Mark claims that the average person: has three people that they would consider friends, and the average person has demand for meaningfully more. I think it's, like, 15. Sure. It's not exactly news that Americans are lonelier than ever. But Mark genuinely believes that AI friends can replace real friends. I'm not here to wax philosophically about whether or not AI can replace human contact. But this whole conversation does have me thinking about the ever-changing value of social media. I've often seen social media compared to cigarettes. The comparison is easy; they're both impossibly addictive; people zombified by their phones are almost as annoying as people smoking a cig; both have deleterious health effects; a lot of people think that children shouldn't have access to either; and both are a problem only because of clever marketing schemes. I've been playing around with Mastodon lately, and I used Facebook, Instagram, Tumblr, and Twitter in their glory days last decade. Inspired by the usability of and lack of user-hostile dark patterns in Mastodon, I recently scrolled my partner's Instagram and Facebook feeds to see just how much things have changed since I left pre-2020. And that got me thinking: is social media in general the problem? Or is it just the twisted, manipulative, deeply psychologically problematic state of Big Social Media, or as I think of it... post-social social media? To explain my thoughts, let's take a little walk through the history of tobacco.

An interruption Ok, how did you get here? Was it a notification, scrolling a feed, did you saw my post and pressed the link, an RSS feed perhaps? What was the interruption that broke your flow, and do you remember the last thing before? Or even before, before you were on socials or scrolling whatever got you here? Sorry, maybe an exaggeration here, it hasn’t been that long, but how often does that happen? That rabbit-hole where you set your time to do a certain thing and by the end you don’t even remember what it was?

How social media lost the social part

If you care about supporting open source software, and still use MySQL in 2026, you should switch to MariaDB like so many others have already done.\n

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Well, it appears that Perforce has taken another step down the enshittification journey. For some strange reason, it appears that they don’t want you writing Puppet modules unless you’re a paying customer. That’s right, they killed the open source PDK and sequestered the source away, just like they did with Puppet. They would like you to pay for the privilege of creating content for them.

Olivier Forget's Personal Blog

This is how a platform, such as Facebook, Google, or Amazon, becomes enshitifid: At the beginning, they are good to their end users, but try to lock t...

Thanks for the memories, but good riddance.

A Pizza Hut and a whole lot of tears

This is part 6 of a series on document creation. Which is part of a multi-series of posts on digital resources for mental health professionals. Free and Open Source software (FOSS) It may not be a priority for you if you work in mental health care to think about the licence of the software tool you are using. But I really think you should care! It is so important to make sure that you rely …

This is my post for day 27 of the Inkhaven writing retreat. I grew up just about at pace with the rise of the internet, laptops, and smart phones. It was fast enough that I could tell it was revolu…

Mostly The Lonely Howls Of Mike Baying His Ideological Purity At The Moon

Walking away from _ramblr_

Leaving ramblr.com, finally

Dear reader, I’m planning to leave WhatsApp at the end of this month, and switch fully to Signal, a much more private and ethical messaging app. The decision...

Online gaming publications are being unceremoniously shut down without warning. Coincidentally I have rediscovered a love of gaming magazines, particularly the venerated Edge Magazine.

Earlier today, I got an email alerting me to an angrier than usual comment on this website. It was a proper keyboard warrior rant accusing me of all sorts of misdeads revolving around “forcing ads down people’s throats”. I replied saying that there had never been any ads on this site, never will be and I detest the enshitification trend of the modern Internet too. I also have found much of today’s web unbearable without tools such as Pi-Hole and a VPN; I use Firefox with adblockers whenever possible and generally speaking, if a site forces me to disable my ad-blocker I’ll simply stop visiting.

This is a cost-benefit analysis on using AI to solve problems and comparing how it fares with classical methods, e.g. deterministic algorith...

Bruno is the latest kid on the block when it comes to API testing. Many of us are familiar with API clients such as Postman or Insomnia. Unfortunately, these useful tools haven’t been spared from the ongoing enshitification, so I’ve been looking for alternatives. It seems like Bruno hits the sweet spot.

Design principles for collective knowledge systems—permanence, provenance, permission, and placement—that enable robust networks for evidence-based decision making.

Contrary to stereotypes, not all tech enthusiasts are the same. Join Andrew 'The Business' Canion, tech-creative Jason Burk and media researcher Martin Feld as they take a light-hearted approach to technology, media, food, cultural differences and family life.

Contrary to stereotypes, not all tech enthusiasts are the same. Join Andrew 'The Business' Canion, tech-creative Jason Burk and media researcher Martin Feld as they take a light-hearted approach to technology, media, food, cultural differences and family life.

My thoughts on Cory Doctorow’s recent Pluralistic post regarding Bluesky and Enshittification, POSSE, and owning my own content.

“It’s remarkable how much you don’t know about the game you’ve been playing all of your life.” Mickey Mantle

Zoom keeps getting worse, so I'm taking back control. I don't know about you, but lately I've been noticing that the entire Zoom experie...

After almost 18 years, I left iNaturalist, the product and organization I helped create. I left because I don’t believe the current Leadership team is pointing the product in the right direction, and I don’t think they are managing their talented staff in an empathetic or effective way. If you’d like me to continue working on natural history software, support me on Patreon.

After listening to a podcast episode on enshittification, Google has been on my mind lately, specifically how it survives an ever-enshittifying landscape by being fine for the average user. Not gre…

Around the world, building the internet’s operating system—and a better way to work. In a world of tech companies fighting for growth at any cost, imagine one that gives away its most successful pr…

Jennifer Szalai concludes her recent NYTimes column, Hannah Arendt is not your icon (gift link), with this paragraph: For Arendt, loneliness was dangerous; it was precisely under conditions of isolation that one’s imagination could untether itself from reality and “develop its own lines of ‘thought.’” She offers not a guide but a goad — to partake in an activity that can enact our freedom and also help to sustain it. “What I propose, therefore, is very simple,” she once wrote. “It is nothing more than to think what we are doing.”

A brief history After 15 years of streaming, I made the decision in 2025 to switch back to a system where I listen to music I own again. Like for many pe...

AI can be kind of useful, but I'm not sure that a "kind of useful" tool justifies the harm.

I migrated Citation Needed from Substack to self-hosted Ghost. Here is exactly how I did that.

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We are uncovering better ways of developingsoftware by doing it and helping others do it. The First lines of the agile manifesto Since the adoption of the agile manifesto, we’ve spawned dozen…

This blog post was initially written in French, L’écosystème du bruit et la fabrique de l’autorité For a few months now, I have been trying to write a post about greenwashing. And of course it takes time, because I tend to get lost in all kinds of details… and this time was no exception. For … Continue reading The Marketplace of Expertise and Authority: Notes from the Noise Ecosystem →

Or Why Tech Monopolies Are Actually Good For Society Hold on! Stow the pitchforks! Hear me out. Nothing lasts forever. All technologies have their moment in the spotlight — then the wheel of progress turns and a new challenger arises, one better adapted to the environment. Progress is a cruel mas

The ramblings of a code gardener.

Why are printers so rubbish to use and so expensive? OK, the expense I can understand: the people using them are a captive audience that can be milked of money. That’s why printers appe…

May 26, 2025 — Topic: ai The following is a response I wrote to a text message from a friend. Over the years, he has reached out to discuss tech topics. Occasio…

How do you build a platform users can rely on for years? Reversibility, avoid enshittification, viability, etc..

Writings on artificial intelligence, personalization, recommendations, and the tech industry.

Platforms1 like Spotify are market actors that are culturally and economically relevant in ways that other capitalistic actors are not. The case for Spotify specifically is authoritatively made in Liz Pelly’s “Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist”. Generally their lifecycle can be approximated through Cory Doctorow’s enshittification thesis. Early in their existence platforms generate value for all or most stakeholders. Then they iteratively begin to screw everyone until a critical equilibrium is reached that is just not terrible enough to make everybody leave.

A Ranty Manifesto on Why Tech Workers Should Build Cooperatives Instead.

When an email went round at work asking if anyone was up for giving a lunchtime talk on a hobby, I volunteered to do so. I’ve got to be honest that I did suspect ‘static site personal blogging’ might be considered a bit too esoteric for them to accept, but no, they took me up on it. Whelp! That’s now done, so, to record the details, I’m also writing it up as a few blog posts…

In which a weekend of metaphysical head trauma came up roses.

Recently I came across an article I couldn't stop nodding along with while reading. 'Enshittification' is a term we have learned the last years about platform decay and things in general just...

I decided to write a space opera system. Initially, I just wanted to write a really good space opera mission generator, but the project got ...

About 6 months ago, I teased a series on the idea of facadeware, largely starring our lemon of a Grand Cherokee, but speaking more broadly to a problem with how we’re developing technology. Specifically, I defined this concept as: Facadeware: superficially advanced gadgetry with an actual net-negative value proposition. I’d like to start unpacking that...

A long week thinking about email, GitHub Actions, and a spur of the moment trip to Swindon to let the missus and daughter get some shopping in.

No, AI isn't going to bring about the apocalypse of SaaS.

PHILADELPHIA — As the economy struggles through a vibecession and the internet gets enshittified by vibecoding, the craft brewing industry grappled with an unfamiliar vibe of its own this week at its largest annual conference, too. Is that… could it really be…? It could be, and it was. Bona fide optimism was in the air during the 2026 Craft Brewers Conference, which concluded Wednesday evening in the City of Brotherly Love. Whether light is actually visible at the end of the tunnel… well, that depends on whom you asked, and where in the segment they are sitting.

I haven’t been on LinkedIn for over a year now. My account was permanently ‘restricted’ (banned) on or around September 11th 2024 for what LinkedIn claims is “hateful speech…

Explore my blogging journey with Hugo and WordPress CMS. Learn about webrings, IndieWeb, and why I’m making BurgeonLab my primary blog.

On hating what’s happened to technology over the last quarter century, yet still kind of loving it in spite of it all.

I am not particularly fond of YouTube. From it’s humble beginning to it’s inevitable enshittification, It maintains a market monopoly of 98% for video sharing services1. Perhaps one goo…

Reflecting on how the US TikTok ban accidentally revealed how we can have calmer and more meaningful conversations, despite the common belief that the internet is a hostile place inhabited by trolls and other mischievous creatures.

Universities worldwide currently face a pivotal choice: should they contribute to building a global infrastructure for exchange, science, and discourse, free from the control of oligarchs, to promo…

RSS feeds are one of my favorite features of the Internet of Yore. Simply put, they allow you to subscribe to sites you like, into an aggregator. Instead of visiting all these sites in search for something new, you simply subscribe to these sites in your aggregator, and you'll see new articles come in. In this article, I present feedzgerald, a small CLI tool used to filter online RSS feeds in order to only subscribe to content you're truly interested in.

Derek Sivers official site. Thoughts on philosophy, culture, self-improvement. Author of Useful Not True, How to Live, Hell Yeah or No, Anything You Want.

Music maker, product leader, writer & technologist based in central MA, USA. Tinkering with the internet in pursuit of creative independence.

A blog post talking about digital privacy and how the public has become bored with hearing about it.

As a software developer I can't help but look at all the issues plaguing social media and think that surely they can be fixed with code s…

I built a webring for personal websites.

An overview of how I use Obsidian, the note taking app.

Design principles for collective knowledge systems—permanence, provenance, permission, and placement—that enable robust networks for evidence-based decision making.

Apple announced their "Apple Intelligence" at WWDC this year. It's Recall again but this time by someone with a better security track record.

I made the decision early last year that I wanted to learn either Neovim or Emacs. I ended up actually learning both, though I'm still definitely not an expert in either…

What if we're becoming the cable company of countries?

Fediverse as a tool for government.

Callsheet’s creator and designer talk respecting users’ time, designing for information density, indie software development, and of course Sketch.

Some of my favorite products have gotten crappier. Did they have to?

Prominent crypto venture capitalist Chris Dixon provides an unconvincing bible for blockchain solutionists.

On reading Tim Berners-Lee in Okinawa, and why AI might accidentally save the web from itself.

A blog by Anuj Ahooja

Music maker, product leader, writer & technologist based in central MA, USA. Tinkering with the internet in pursuit of creative independence.

Or Why Tech Monopolies Are Actually Good For Society. A defence of “Big Tech” on the principles of progress. Hold on! Stow the pitchforks! Hear me out...

A conceptual and technical framework for resource discovery on the WWW using decentralised, open, machine-readable indexes as the building block.

The serious security risks involved in using autonomous LLM applications and what we can do to mitigate them

A blog containing essays, of varying cogency, about various things that my mind have wandered to.

I spent a few hours this week reading around AI and formulating my thoughts into coherent sentences. This is what I've got so far. I'd love to know what you think. Am I right? Am I being naive, or just sceptical enough? What am I missing? A bit of context and a disclaimer: my remit | I spent a few hours this week reading around AI and formulating my thoughts into coherent sentences. This is what I've got so far. I'd love to know what you think. Am I right? Am I being naive, or just sceptical enough? What am I missing? A bit of context and a disclaimer: my remit

The cheap web is a solarpunk philosophy of web design.

MVPs are for products. FPCs are for customers. Products aren't people.

If you want to build principled software, avoid becoming VCware. Stay user-supported. It is now possible for tiny teams to build principled software that mil...

Fediverse as a tool for communities and community organizers.

Frank Chimero’s Personal Website

Looking back on the last four years, what worked, what didn't.

Firstyear's blog

Three nerds discussing tech, Apple, programming, and loosely related matters.

TLDR: Here is a simplified diagram of how I keep reading articles, books, and other materials without overwhelming myself or having a never-ending pile of to-read items. In this blog post, I will go into the details of each part of the workflow, the tools I currently use, the alternatives I have tried, why they work for me, and what I can improve in the process. Feel free to use the above table of contents to jump to the section that is more interesting to you.