Bookmarks
A curated collection of links, articles, and resources I've found worth sharing. Browse by topic using the tags below, or follow along via RSS.
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Using the iPad as an iPad
Using my iPad as just an iPad has helped me reset my thinking on wants vs. needs when it comes to specs and accessories as well as to rediscover the joys and simplicity of the platform again.
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Apple Annie’s Weblog · Give your blog a name.
Your blog's name is more than you! Your blog is an extension of you and takes on a form itself. Your blog is the best parts of you because you are putting things on your blog that you probably don't put out anywhere else in this world. That's pretty special and your blog deserves a name.
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The state of the web in 2024
Even though a lot of people use large, popular walled web and/or social media services now and still will in the future, there’s a percentage of people who will stop using them. To me, it feels like there’s a clear fracturing happening on the web right now like never before.
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Read-it-Later vs Hoarding.
I barely manage my read-it-later bucket, in fact, I don't think I ever look at it, so why hoard links I am never going to look back?
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Send links to your friends and make the Web a better place
The small web is born from passion, not from chase of profit. Only we can make it flourish like it used to flourish. Simply sending a cool link from time to time to your friends is enough.
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Can We Please Put an End to Overperformed Audiobooks?
Please just read me a story without distraction. I don’t need to hear a variety of voices from a single narrator if a full-cast production is not in the cards.
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Towards a quieter, friendlier web • Cory Dransfeldt
Be kind, be honest and engage on your own terms. Walk away from anything that doesn't serve you and don't be afraid to craft a browsing experience that best suits you. A healthier web is one that's slower, friendly and serves you. Eschew things that make demands of you, insist or impose upon your time and attention.
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Give me a web feed or an API for everything • Cory Dransfeldt
If I'm using your service, if I'm paying for your service, I really need it to have an API or a web feed.
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The Subversive Hyperlink
To some, the hyperlink is dangerous and must be controlled:
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Make a Damn Website
I believe it’s everyone’s imperative to genuinely invest in making websites again. For ourselves, for our businesses, for our interests.
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Why I Blog. You Should Too!
You should start a blog. If you disagree, I certainly understand the hesitancy. I was once like you! I’m here to convince you otherwise.
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The Teenage Web
>Welcome to the Corporate Internet. It didn’t used to be like this. The web used to be a collection of independently-operated sites that we all individually controlled. We used to be so punk rock about the web.
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Which self is this?
Like knowing to use an alias to represent my online persona in my first era, I instinctively knew before and during medical school that my online self, who, while earnest and genuine was also a bit messy and still figuring herself out, was not and never could be the self that was expected to show up to see patients.
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Blogging Isn't Dead. It Never Died. It's Never Going to Die. Neither Is Personal Blogging - Jeffrey Pillow
Blogging isn't dead. Punk rock isn't dead. Zip it.
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You don't need to be an expert to write | James' Coffee Blog
If we were all experts our websites would be boring.
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Why Personal Blogging Still Rules
Remember when personal blogging was a thing? I don’t mean those things tacked on to business sites or any of that ad-riddled click-bait junk. No, I mean blogs that existed to be, well, blogs. If you are under the age of thirty, you perhaps don’t. But let me tell you, kid - blogs were hella cool. Yet for the longest time, I thought that era was dead and gone. That personal blogs had gone the way of the dodo or the fansite. But I was wrong.
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Breaking up with Slack and Discord: why it's time to bring back forums. — Joan Westenberg
The heyday of forums may have passed over a decade ago as real-time chat emerged. But it's time for deeper online discussion to make a thoughtful comeback.
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The Unbearable Sameness of the Modern Web
Also, it’s BORING. It’s BORING AS HELL. Guh, bring back interesting websites, bring back the creativity that the web offers. Bring back frontend devs who aren’t afraid to get down with the mouse event handlers!!
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This website is personal - Frills
Sometimes, I come up with a banger of a blog post idea, only to find myself grappling with writing the content, and eventually adding it to my increasing pile of forgotten drafts.
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A rant on ARC Search – Manu
The problem with search is that it’s full of fucking spam and ads. That’s the problem with search. The solution to search is not to “reinvent the browser” or to use AI to power searches for you. The solution to search is a search engine that is aligned with the users.