2024.10.10 – XOXO has started posting some amazing talks from this year’s festival. Definitely make the time to watch the ones from Erin Kissane, Molly White, and Darius Kazemi at the very least!
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Slashpages
2024.07.03 – I love this proposal for standardizing links that appear at the top level of a domain. Many of us have been doing /contact or /about for a long time, but I’m very tempted to add a bunch of these as hidden pages in my site!
Rewild the Internet
2024.06.06 – Maria Farrell and Robin Berjon discuss the need to decentralize the internet monoculture we’ve beccome locked into.
We Can Have A Different Web
2024.05.03 – Molly White talks about how we can reclain the web, and rebuild what we’ve lost.
They're Looting The Internet
2024.04.16
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This is a must-read piece from Ed Zitron describing how the major internet corporations have become actively hostile to users.
“It’s the hallmark of a tech industry dedicated to creating problems that it charges you to solve, a sickly beast borne of venture capital and a lack of innovation. When you’re rich and powerful, you no longer face real problems, and as a result fail to consider the solutions that would measurably improve a person’s life.”
On Values
2024.04.09 – Carter Baxter talks about how as a culture we’ve traded ethical values for shareholder value.
The LLMentalist Effect
2024.04.09 – Baldur Bjarnason lays out how the current AI-obsession is backed by chicanery usually employed by psychics.
Robots.txt to block AI bots
2024.03.27 – Cory Dransfeldt provides this excellent list of AI scraping bots to put in your disallow list for robots.txt.
How Web 2.0 killed the Internet
2024.03.27 – This old post from Aral Balkan about the failed promise of open APIs still rings true a decade later.
Have We Reached Peak AI?
2024.03.21
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Ed Zitron does an incredible job of separating hype from fact in his recent article about AI.
“Sam Altman desperately needs you to believe that generative AI will be essential, inevitable and intractable, because if you don’t, you’ll suddenly realize that trillions of dollars of market capitalization and revenue are being blown on something remarkably mediocre.”
Jakob Is Wrong
2024.03.07 – Matt May has posted an excellent response to Jakob Nielsen’s awful screed that accessibility has failed and we should leave it up to the robots to sort out.
Practical Infrastructure Ops
2024.02.27 – Jack Lindamood gives a long list of lessons learned when running large-scale performant cloud infrastructure for small- to medium-sized teams.