2022 has been a damn good year for good new album releases, so I thought I’d recommend my top 5 for you. 5. Actual Life 3 (January 1 – September 9 2022), by Fred again… Bloody hell this album is good. I’d never heard of Fred again… and stumbled upon a video of him playing […]
I really like this post by Chris Coyier (@chriscoyier@front-end.social): https://chriscoyier.net/2022/12/26/bring-back-blogging/ This part specifically caught my attention: Maybe “publish your own feed” is a better framing. “Own your RSS.” A feed doesn’t care what it contains. It is content-style agnostic. It’s just timestamped HTML, in a way. Put some audio in it, and it’s a podcast. […]
2023 is going to be the year of websites—specifically personal websites—and I’m here for it. It seems like the momentum for people to hyper-focus (or re-focus) on their personal home on the World Wide Web has come from the rapid decline in Twitter, since Elon Musk has taken it upon himself to destroy it. Sure, […]
One thing I’ll give Elon Musk credit for is how he’s inadvertently demonstrating how terrible and fragile centralisation is—especially with online communities. Who would have thought a narcissist’s paper-thin ego would destroy social media (read algorithmic ad networks) as we know it? Welcome back, decentralised web! The question is, what falls next?