Cereal Has Strayed Too Far
How breakfast became dessert
The revolt of the reader
Reading is important to me. While I’m not a quick reader nor an especially voracious one, I have found that long-form reading has had a profound influence on me over my life.
And because reading is important to me, writing is too: writing not only allows us to convey our ideas, but the very act forces us to test and distill them — at once making our ideas more robust while providing the vehicle by which to share them.
VC isn’t VC anymore — understanding the rise of Cancer Capital - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
Make a Damn Website
By centralizing not just your content, but yourself, on these sites, you rob yourself the opportunity to be more authentically you.
Taxi drivers rarely die of Alzheimer’s – how complex mental maps and spatial reasoning protect your brain
Working with and living in spatially complex environments may help delay cognitive decline, though more research is needed.
Let Me And A Food Scientist Sample The Abandoned Fish Sauce Terrorizing A Small Canadian Town | Defector
Take capelin, a small silvery fish in the smelt family. Now add salt. Then throw those two ingredients in 110 vats, each of them about 10 feet tall, and let them sit in a defunct factory for over two decades. The resulting stench might haunt an entire community, as it has the people of St.…
Please Return to Your Seat
On the long haul flight
How to survive boiling water
A probiotic paradox
Never Enough
Comparison is the thief of joy.
95 reasons for having your own website
A running list of reasons to have your own website in 2026.
The Lost Joy of Music Piracy: WhatCD, Oink, and Spotify | Pigeons and Planes
What.CD, Oink, and the banalities of streaming.
The Spotify model is like saying your favorite restaurant should just be giving you free food until you decide to buy a t-shirt.
Concept Colors — Quiz
Pick a color for each abstract concept.
Oh Good, Screwworms Are Back
You say you want to know more about the horror bug that we eradicated only to discover it is making a comeback? You are in luck.
but no victory is so complete that it can not be undone by a handful of careless middle managers who don’t grasp the importance of the system they have been charged with maintaining.
Opinion | My Students Can’t Read
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Advice for New and Aspiring Consultants
A couple years ago a family member who was thinking about starting their own consulting company reached out to me, and I wrote up a long answer to them about what I had learned so far that I hoped …
Kevin Powell
Helping you fall in love with CSS.
How to deal with your kid leaving
My child is in high school and I’ve been in deep mourning for the last two years that they’ll (likely) be leaving me first for college, and then for...life!
Post de @standplaatskrk.pl — Bluesky
Aspartame: Once more unto the breach
Like it or not, there’s a clear scientific consensus
Own Your Web – Issue 18: Curators
Hi All! 🤗 The Latin word curare means “to take care of.” It’s the root of curator – a person whose work is not to create, but to care. To select, to arrange,...
In a museum, the curator doesn’t paint the paintings. She decides which paintings belong in the same room, and why that room tells a story the individual works cannot tell alone.
The link – the Web’s most fundamental building block, the thing that connects one human’s work to another’s – is quietly being erased from the experience of finding things online. The search engine no longer says “here, go read what this person wrote.” It now says “here, I’ve already read it for you.” The contract is broken.
What becomes valuable is someone you trust, saying: This is worth your time. Here’s why.
That’s curation. And it’s not new.
In 1994, two Stanford students named Jerry Yang and David Filo started keeping a list of their favourite websites in a directory. They called it “Jerry and David’s Guide to the World Wide Web.” That list eventually became Yahoo! – one of the biggest companies of the early internet. Its foundation was nothing more than two people picking links they found interesting and organising them into categories.
A $3,000 Website Is a Lie You Both Agreed To – Stefan Iordan
You paid $3,000. The agency kept 40% as overhead and margin.
The End of Eleventy
Build Awesome is a rebrand of 11ty/Eleventy, backed by a successful $40k Kickstarter. But this attempt to monetize static site generators repeats the same mistakes that killed Gatsby and Stackbit—and misunderstands who actually builds static sites.
A Primer on Long-Duration Life Support
Life support is the hardest technical obstacle to the human exploration of Mars.
The Last Quiet Thing
Your possessions came alive. Now they won't stop talking.
The 49MB Web Page
A look at modern news websites. How programmatic ad-tech, huge payloads and hostile architecture destroyed the reading experience.
“This Is Not The Computer For You” · Sam Henri Gold
Sam Henri Gold is a product design engineer building playful, useful software.
Why I Don’t Vibe Code | jacobharr.is
A “brief” accounting of various reasons why vibe coding has just never clicked for me personally as a developer.
Mike X. Nichols (@mikexnichols.bsky.social)
i often think about this review
Sounds on The Web
Sound is the forgotten sense in web design. Used well, it adds feedback, personality, and presence that visuals alone cannot achieve.
How I changed my personality in six weeks
Based on emerging research showing people can shift their core personality traits, Laurie Clarke tried tweaking hers. Here's what happened.