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peoplevsbig.tech

People vs. Big Tech

A growing, global movement fighting for a better digital future.

ilyabirman.net

Design is dead, it’s all evolution now

There’s no design in digital products anymore. It’s been replaced by evolution.

seangoedecke.com

Large tech companies don’t need heroes

It's processes and incentives that determine what happens, not any individual heroics.

chrbutler.com

Progress without disruption

There’s nothing about progress that inherently requires disruption—except our inability to cooperate for stability.

unsung.aresluna.org

How to shoot a screen using a board of keys

The world is divided into two groups: people who know how to take screenshots in a Mac, and...

intertapes.net

Intertapes

Obscure tape finds and their stories.

resonantcomputing.org

The Resonant Computing Manifesto

A manifesto for resonant computing built on five principles that reject hyper-scale extraction for human flourishing.

iterativewonders.com

The word “Computer” meant human (at some point)

Originally named after the person it was meant to replace.

alexharri.com

A deep dive into ASCII rendering

A look at how I used shape vectors to achieve sharp, high-quality ASCII rendering.

tangiblemediacollection.com

Tangible Media

A historical collection of information storage technology—information you could hold in your hand.

blog.avas.space

Privacy is a value we can lose

We’re taking data protection and privacy rights for granted.

youtube.com

The persistence of decay

A funeral for a lighthouse, a sermon in fungus, our vanishing digital media, and the arrow of time.

howbrowserswork.com

How browsers work

A guide for engineers and curious people who use the web every day, but never built a mental model of how browsers work.

technologyreview.com

10 breakthrough technologies 2026

Here are our picks for the advances to watch in the years ahead—and why we think they matter right now.

blog.glyph.im

The next thing will not be big

So we are all — collectively, culturally — looking for the Next Big Thing, and we keep not finding it.

wheresyoured.at

The enshittifinancial crisis

The horrifying result of 15+ years of steering the tech industry away from solving actual problems in pursuit of eternal growth.

vitalik.eth.limo

Balance of power

We like progress—whether in technology, economy or culture—but we fear the most powerful generators of such progress.

maurycyz.com

What an unprocessed photo looks like

Different renditions of the same data.

implications.com

12 outlooks for the future: 2026+

From talent arbitrage and “proof of craft” to hardware moats, ambient listening, homegrown software, and the end of waste.

stickertop.art

Laptop sticker art

A unique collection of laptops adorned with creative stickers from around the world.