Blip

Fast file transfer from person to person (desktop, mobile).

Charge your worth

As designers, we’re ‘worth’ what clients pay for our work.

How will SGE impact your organic traffic?

Estimate Google Search’s AI effect on your website.

2023: the year of AI

The most significant releases, partnerships, and debates.

Google algorithm updates 2023

An overview of all confirmed updates of the year.

2024 SEO and content trends

Top predictions from 27 industry experts.

CSS Peeps

Generate your avatar with a single HTML ‘div’ and CSS file.

The web is fantastic

As long as we are not talking about the entire web.

Ambiphone

Ambient music and sounds for work and relaxation.

The web renaissance takes off

The powerful comeback of the people’s web.

RSS Anything

Transform a list of links on a website into an RSS feed.

How Google perfected the web

The impact of search engine optimization on website designs.

Scaling the design ladder: seeing like a designer

“The biggest value of design is not building better products.”

What’s next for Mozilla?

Mozilla’s approach to incorporating AI into Firefox.

Getty Images launches generative AI by iStock

An affordable way for businesses to safely use AI visuals.

Introducing the GPT Store

The GPT Store helps you find custom versions of ChatGPT.

Google sitemaps ping endpoints no longer work

The search giant has officially deprecated the feature.

Generative AI has a visual plagiarism problem

The copyright minefield with Midjourney and DALL-E 3.

The internet used to be fun

Handpicked articles on the joy of personal websites.

People and blogs

Where people talk about themselves and their blogs.

“If you learn something the hard way, share your findings with others. Sharing knowledge is an unreasonably effective way of helping others.”

Where have all the websites gone?

Why are we so unhappy with the state of the web?

Prompt engineering

Ways to get better results with generative AI.

Ways to measure the success of your newsletter

The best newsletters use carefully selected metrics.

Learnings from over 100 website migrations

Prioritize tasks wisely before your site goes live.

A million ways to die on the web

Common reasons for website shutdowns and content loss.

“I’m unsubscribing from email newsletters and adding them to my RSS feed reader instead, so that I can ignore them in a different place.”

“If your newsletter doesn’t have an RSS feed, I’m not reading it. Why would I want more emails, ever.”

Platform Tilt

How rival browser vendors show bias against Firefox.

Apple is finally allowing full Chrome/Firefox on iOS

The company has to comply with new EU regulations.

The feature trap

Why feature centricity is harming your product.

Notes on search and AI

How will the future of search affect our website traffic?

Google Search’s cache links are officially being retired

Say goodbye to ‘cached’ webpages as Google sees them.

No analytics

Is web analytics still worthwhile for a blog?

“‘Why would anybody use my app in VR?’ isn’t the right question to ask yourself. It’s ‘do I want my users to have to take off their headset to use my app?’”

“Blogging is not dead, blogging is life.”

The SEO Starter Guide got a makeover

Google has overhauled its SEO guide for beginners.

“A browser that browses for you. A code editor that writes code for you. A chatbot that does the chatting for you. Interesting times.”

Googles new love for user generated content

Reddit and Quora have gained massive visibility recently.

We’ve been waiting 20 years for this

“The indie web may be back, likely in a way we least expect.”

GOODY-2

The ethical AI chatbot that leaves many questions open.

“When people say ‘RSS is dead’ what they really mean is ‘we couldn’t figure out a way to monetize RSS.’”

Your customers are not always right

Should heavy demand drive us to build the feature?

2024 is the year of the OpenStreetMap vector maps

OpenStreetMap is about to make a big jump forward.

How to intentionally show up in Google’s SGE

Ways to protect your website from a drop in visitors.

Google updates image removal documentation

Clarifications on how you can delist your website images.

Not all TLDs are created equal

The risks of country-code Top Level Domains.

Apple breaks iPhone web apps in the EU on purpose

It’s not a bug that broke iPhone PWAs in the EU.

Gemini 1.5

Google’s AI model boosts performance and long-context grasp.

Organizing RSS and ATOM feed sources

Ways to categorize your news in a feed reader.

A big list of things you can A/B test

Opportunities for improving every kind of newsletter.

Some words on Webmentions

“There are pretty significant problems with Webmentions.”

The State of Email Trends Report

Email trends and their effectiveness for marketers.

Home screen advantage

Decoding Apple’s ploy to scuttle progressive web apps.

Open letter to Tim Cook

Sabotaging web apps is indefensible. Sign the letter.

Tumblr and WordPress to sell users’ data

The blog platforms aim to monetize it for AI training.

A new chapter for A Book Apart

The famous web book publisher stops new releases.

Apple backs off killing web apps

The company no longer plans to sabotage web apps.

A WordPress ‘firehose’ lets AI access a daily million posts

“Automattic has been selling access to this ‘firehose’ for years.”

RsS iS dEaD LOL

Explore RSS feeds in your Fediverse neighborhood.

About Ideas Now

Connect with people through personal websites.

It’s a process; not a product

“Usability, accessibility, and security are verbs.”

How Google Search crawls pages

Google’s web crawling process demystified in videos.

The wax and the wane of the web

When you think you’ve nailed the web, it evolves.

What web creators should know

Google Search core update brings new spam policies.

What even is a website?

A website can be so many things, to all kinds of people.

Digital Defense

An interactive personal security and privacy checklist.

What’s needed for AI-powered website accessibility

“For AI to put me out of a job, I have to do my job for longer first.”

Email marketing trends that are seeing adoption and success

Generative AI is popular, but weak on performance.

Marking the web’s 35th birthday

A call for reforming the web to prioritize user rights.

Getting rid of crap data

Less data means less energy usage and less waste.

The rise of zombie content

AI spam and the bot economy: what can we do now?

RSS was released 25 years ago today

Born on March 15, 1999, and still alive and kicking.

What’s new in WordPress 6.5

The update will delight creators and developers alike.

The W3C is now investigating the ethics of generative AI

The web standards organization takes a closer look.

Welcome to the IndieWeb

“Let’s make this jungle wild, exciting, and beautiful again.”

Typeahead

An AI-powered screen reader with voice control.

AI is changing writing

“I am putting more I in the ‘AI’ – as a way to stand out and stay ahead.”

Time to ditch analytics?

The downsides of tracking scripts on your website.

I replaced Google with AI for a week

“Perplexity AI can do almost anything Google can.”

The creator economy trap

Why building on someone else’s platform is a dead end.

In-App Browsers

The worst erosion of user choice you haven’t heard of.

AI glossary

The most used terms in Artificial Intelligence explained.

Charting 10 years of the Google algorithm

Google’s ever-evolving search algorithm is heating up.

How fast do websites load In 2024?

A look into web speed using Google’s CrUX report.

You might consider using an image sitemap

Particularly if you have a website with extensive imagery.

Indiedex

Connect with indie hackers, designers, marketers, and solopreneurs.

Google explains how it chooses canonical webpages

Why duplicate pages can be important for SEO.

Distribute ideas, not content

Tie together all content efforts with a central idea.

EchoFeed

Send your website or blog posts all over the web.

Self-Hosted Software

A collection of applications/alternatives for self-hosting.

Who should block AI bots?

There is no confident one-size-fits-all answer.

Evolving the Wolvic interface

Past achievements and future plans for the XR browser.

AI isn’t useless, but is it worth it?

“I’m not sure that a ‘kind of useful’ tool justifies the harm.”

Deprecating third-party cookies

A small step towards a more private web.

The analog web

“What you create on the web can be whatever you want it to be.”

No Web Without Women

Innovations by women within computer science and technology.

Google confirms links are not that important

It looks like links matter less in SEO than ever before.

Google delays third-party cookie demise yet again

No specific timeline was given beyond hoping for 2025.

Net neutrality is back!

“The decision reaffirms the internet remains a public resource.”