Oh, yes, I keep forgetting that the open web is dead or is ended or all the web is swirling down an AI slop river of grey sludge. Just don’t tell the...

   Learn about the productivity tool one GitHub engineer built, and how AI supported the development process.The post Build a personal organization...

   There’s no question that the general locking-down of more and more of the public web is impacting society’s ability to understand what’s going on in...

   Faces of Death features a black-pilled killer who thinks he’s giving the internet what it wants. In some ways, he’s right.

   No such thing as a free lunch Seen on a street in Brighton in March 2012. Quote of the Day Reality has no sense of plot, timing or strategy. It just...

   Finding a new blog to read is one of my favourite things to do online. It genuinely brings me joy. Right now I have 230 sites that I follow in my RSS...

   Plan your media diet before someone else plans it for you.

   Developers keep finding interesting ways to make our existing tech more useful. Sometimes that means refining how we interact with tools we already...

   Bad news OMFG, news is such a shitshow. Start with Do links hurt news publishers on Twitter? Our analysis suggests yes, by NiemanLab. Then, Social...

   An interview with New York Times Company CEO Meredith Kopit Levien about human expertise as a moat against Aggregators and AI.

   Thoughts on writing, as the blog passes its two-decade anniversary.The post Reflections on Writing for 20 Years appeared first on Scott H Young.

   Elon Musk has said as much: Links in tweets are bad for engagement. Over the last few days, sparked by a post from Nate Silver, people have started...

   Surf is now live on the web and publicly available, Cosmos launches its v2, actually, people love to work hard, and more in this week’s issue of...

   Current in action, reading one of my newsletters.Every morning, I start my day with breakfast, a cup of tea, and my iPad. This is the latest version...

   Not sure I buy the argument here, though I do very much look forward to local language models getting better so we can ditch the predatory peddlars...

   Thinking about Anil Dash’s Endgame for the Open Web, and what we can do to prepare.The post Prepping for the endgame of the open web appeared first...

   Data compiled by Ofcom, being the Office of Communications, Britain’s communications regulator, says 49% of adult social media users now post content...

   A few weeks ago I wrote about RSS, talking about Terry Godier’s posts and arguing about the need for a different experience with reading feeds. My...

   Flipboard’s social websites consolidate profiles and posts from Bluesky, Mastodon, Threads, YouTube, podcasts, blogs, and RSS feeds into a single,...

   Big Tech is facing a Big Tobacco’ moment. To regulate social media effectively, we need to understand the teenage brain.