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I first got online in 1993, back when the Web had a capital letter — three, in fact — and long before irony stretched its legs and unbuttoned its flan

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This is my bag of tricks — loose notes, design patterns, rules-of-thumb, tools, cheatsheets, gimmicks, leverage points, descriptions of systems, key questions, risks, and unknowns.

Exploring ways to build social infrastructure around books and reading on the open web

How I built myself a simple wiki using folders and files and published via Jekyll

It seems blogrolls are making a comeback. I didn't have one the last time around they were a thing. This is exciting — here's mine! 😀 Each blog listed has

We were magicians and the web was our magic

Everyone wants to be like Steve Jobs and his powerhouse company. It’s not as easy as it looks.

Siri and Apple's use of AI has been severely held back by caution and organizational dysfunction, according to over three dozen former Apple...

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"Hokay. So. Here's the earth..." If you were on the Internet in the early aughts, you probably already know exactly where the above sentence comes from. It's the first line from "The End of the World," the zany 12-year-old animation that depicts an…

At the apex of the New Balance line-up is the 99x series. And standing at the summit of that numerically erratic sneaker monolith is the 997.

On the road in rural Wisconsin, the author knocks on the doors of houses that bear the darkest American symbols and flags, behind them finding guns, ammo, and a modern philosophy of civil war

Despite growing pushback to Facebook's metaverse pivot, Zuckerberg structured his company so that it's nearly impossible for him to be ousted.

How to text, tip, ghost, host, and generally exist in polite society today.

Nothing fuels online discourse like fights over language. New terms will popularize in a subculture then trickle into the zeitgeist until…

Remember when "epic bacon" was the height of comedy?

Establishments like Untitled are becoming more serious, and sophisticated, about acoustics and noise reduction.

Art often draws inspiration from life — but what happens when it’s your life? Inside the curious case of Dawn Dorland v. Sonya Larson.

Mathematics on creating the group's iconic logo and producing its latest album.

Just Blaze says he made the beat for "Public Service Announcement" in 10 minutes, shortly after "The Black Album" was handed in.

One of the strange things about the reaction to the invasion of the Capitol was how few of those dismayed by it...

A mystery industry in the United States is putting a lot of glitter in their products–and they don’t want you to know about it. A little under a year ago, the New York Times published an article all about glitter. In it, journalist Caity Weaver went to Glitterex headquarters, one of the top glitter manufacturers...

The failure of the Feminist Industrial Complex

Timnit Gebru came up through Big Tech. When she switched careers from building AI to examining how it can spread racism and inequality, the giants kept courting her. Then she crossed an invisible line, and Google forced her out. Is Silicon Valley’s system of in-house ethics really going to protect us from the industry’s favorite toys?

He was so damaged, and yet he showed us so much of the world.

There is an alternative to corporate bubbles online — it’s called the IndieWeb. Build your own personal websites, control your online presence, and learn on your own terms.