Links to cool stuff I’ve read. Updated whenever I remember to. Subscribe to the feed for updates.
- June 24, 2026 Bookmark: What Is a Dickover?
dickover n. : a modal panel, popover, or curtain presented by a website or app, deliberately obscuring its own content to frustrate the user with an unwanted, unnecessary, mandatory interaction; e.g. asking the user to accept “cookies”, subscribe to a newsletter, install the website’s mobile app, agree to terms of service, or anything else that the user couldn’t give two shits about.
- June 23, 2026 Bookmark: Blogger Archetype Quiz
This quiz has been making the rounds in the Indieweb. Here’s what I got:
You are a Explorer
To you, the web feels like a library that’s open all hours and has everything you could ever imagine! You love reading others blogs, and know how important readers are to the whole of the indie web community!
- June 11, 2026 Bookmark: How the Blog Broke the Web
Here’s a radical question for my corner of the internet: what did we lose when blogs took over?
- June 9, 2026 Bookmark: The Archivist In Me Turned This Blog Into a Book
Wouter turned the last ten years of his blog into a printed book.
- June 3, 2026 Bookmark: Resurfacing posts
I really like how blogs have the potential for accumulating and making connections over long spans of time. That’s why I made an “on this day” feature to automatically surface old posts
- May 18, 2026 Bookmark: The first time around
If you don’t have time to do it right at first, how will you have time to fix it later?
- May 12, 2026 Bookmark: Asking platforms to do better won't work. We need to force their hands
If there were a dictator of the internet who intentionally set out to destroy your ability to get accurate information, the result would look a lot like what’s already on your screen.
- May 12, 2026 Bookmark: Why light-weight websites may one day save your life
I read this post and it inspired me to add a print stylesheet to my site.