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I have been missing in action for a couple of weeks. I apologize for my tardiness, but I have been busy with personal matters. Both my heart and mind were not in it. Anyway, this week I have some great (and fun) pieces that I enjoyed reading in between meetings. One thing I noted is ā¦
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 donāt tell the frisky dogs, who still know how to romp freely, share their toys, and build bits of web stuff with toys like RSS. Just [ā¦]
Learn about the productivity tool one GitHub engineer built, and how AI supported the development process. The post Build a personal organization command center with GitHub Copilot CLI appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
"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 our world."
Faces of Death features a black-pilled killer who thinks heās giving the internet what it wants. In some ways, heās right.
No such thing as a free lunch Seen on a street in Brighton in March 2012. Quote of the Day āReality has no sense of plot, timing or strategy. It just goes on.ā Jack Watling in Statecraft: The New Rules ā¦ Continue reading ā
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 reader, Miniflux. If I ever want to spend some time reading, I'll usually open Miniflux over my Mastodon client, Moshidon. There's no likes, boosts, h...
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Developers keep finding interesting ways to make our existing tech more useful. Sometimes that means refining how we interact with tools we already rely on. Other times it means applying software to problems that donāt obviously look like ātech problems.ā Here are three apps that take a slightly unc...
Bad news OMFG, news is such a shitshow. Start withĀ Do links hurt news publishers on Twitter? Our analysis suggests yes, by NiemanLab. Then, Social Media has Become a Freak Show, by Nate Silver. Thing is, more and more people in the U.S. now get their news (if that's what it is) from social media, wh...
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 arguing again about the relationships between links and engagement. But our new analysis of thousands of tweets from 18 publishers makes it pretty clear...
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 Creativerly.
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 of a ritual that began years ago with an actual newspaper that an actual human being left in my driveway.ā¦
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 of todayās slop. But this trip down memory lane to the early web of the 1990s couldāve been describing my own experience: But the thing I do remembe...
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 on The History of the Web.
Data compiled by Ofcom, being the Office of Communications, Britainās communications regulator, says 49% of adult social media users now post content, compared to 61% in 2024. The slow down in publishing content cannot, however, be attributed to an IndieWeb/SmallWeb led switch-over to personal websi...
A few weeks ago I wrote about RSS, talking about Terry Godierās posts and arguing about the need for a different experience with reading feeds. My initial thought was that his new RSS client, Current, was incapable of doing what Fraidycat does ā show the original website instead of a sanitised read...
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