A year of fighting scrapers on my 1.5 million-page website. What I tried, how I failed, and what’s working now.

Everything this page knows about you, it learned in under two seconds. Without a cookie, a permission prompt, or a click.

An annual journal of literature made to exist on the web.

Websites aren’t dying, but their job is changing: agent-readable surfaces, MCP servers, and verifiable authenticity.

Tired of misleading cookie banners? The EU Commission has finally proposed a solution.

A variety of online machine emulators written in JavaScript. Run DOS, Windows, OS/2 and other vintage PC applications.

What.CD, Oink, and the banalities of streaming.

Google Images is turning 25. Here’s a look back at some major milestones — and new ways to explore and create visual content.

Preserving the cultural artifacts that shaped internet history.

The app that taught us to directly follow our favorite creators.

Recording all the "terms and conditions" I claimed to have read on a computer or phone for 10 years.

We seem to be stuck on a new hurdle: the idea that websites need to function the same everywhere.

Cold email as an enduring protocol for intentional networking outside algorithm-driven platforms.

Every generation of computing believes the interface it loves will last forever.

Enter your available minutes and get a curated Wikipedia reading path that fits your commute.

That means looking back at the unfinished, handmade web to reinvent how we design for AI—and who we become—now.

By mid-2025, roughly 35% of newly published websites were classified as AI-generated or AI-assisted.

A major inflection point as the tech industry’s imperial mindset crumbles under intense social backlash.

A memorial to the weird little corners of the internet that lived on The Useless Web.

A web page that tells you what your browser gave away the moment you arrived. No login, no form, no permission.