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.”

The end of the free tier

“Free tiers should attract users rather than trap them.”

Map of the web

The web universe with 50,000 sites/blogs and links.

A good image tells a good story

How to choose visuals that support your narrative.

Apple to unveil AI-enabled Safari browser

What to expect in the upcoming Safari 18 release.

Making product value obvious

Why do we so often fall short of this easy aim?

How to know when to use AI

A simple decision-making aid may help.

Microsoft Edge continues upward trend on PC

The current browser market shares (StatCounter).

Save the web by being nice

“Let’s take the time to be nice to just one site a day.”

We can have a different web

“We can restore the things we loved about the old web.”

Stackradar

Tech tools to transform, streamline, and scale your work.

No, I don’t want to fill out your contact form

“They are often just a worse experience for everyone involved.”

“The simplicity of HTML and CSS now feels like a radical act. To build a website with just these tools is a small protest against platform capitalism: a way to assert sustainability, independence, longevity.”

What are you interested in?

Discover website authors’ passions in a fresh way.

GPT-4o

OpenAI’s new model masters audio, vision, and text.

Google brings ‘web’ search, and an AI opt-out button

“It could be an incredibly popular change to Google’s search engine.”

When online content disappears

“38% of webpages from 2013 are no longer accessible.”

Is the planet the missing member of your project team?

Ways to design with the environment in mind.

What Mozilla is adding to Firefox next

Vertical tabs, profile management, and local AI.

RSS blogrolls are a federated social network

Blogrolls as a decentralized way to discover content.

How and why to make a /now page on your site

Share where you are in your life’s journey.

Slash Pages

A guide to common pages you can add to your website.

Hacker Search

What readers of Hacker News think about any topic.

Leaked Google Search API documents

What SEOs can learn from the data leak.

An even faster Microsoft Edge

Microsoft aims to speed up browser interactions.

PayPal plans ad network using purchase histories

The website payment provider will monetize user data.

How I’m using ‘AI’

Where AI can have its uses in day-to-day work.

Defending accessibility to skeptical stakeholders

How to support the world’s largest minority group.

Google warns

Sites that are inaccessible on mobile will not be indexed.

Is Google’s search algorithm hurting smaller websites?

“Making ‘helpful’ content is not enough.”

How to browse the web with the keyboard alone

There are very few keys you need to use.

Want more clicks?

A study suggests using simple headlines.

Turning the tables on AI

What if we used AI not to think less but more?

AI does not build your engineering team

“Writing code is the easiest part of software engineering.”

A fresh look at blogrolls

“We can use them to bootstrap a new kind of social network.”

What does it feel like to read RSS feeds?

Feeds offer curated content without distractions.

Scary Google page indexing spikes

What if Search Console reports them for your site?

Where does SEO come from?

From early web discovery to the SEO industry of today.

The internet isn’t for humans anymore

What does it mean that bots use it now more than we do?

“RSS isn’t dead; it’s the secret weapon of info-savvy rebels.”

“When someone reads a book, watches a video, or attends a live training, the copyright holder gets paid. Why should derivative content generated with the assistance of AI be any different?”

The internet is a series of webs

“The future of the web isn’t just open source code, it’s open creativity.”

Choose how you want to navigate the web with Firefox

Mozilla experiments with AI services in Firefox Nightly.

A local-first codebase supports more collaborators

Why the local-first development approach is “crazy helpful.”

Consent, LLM scrapers, and poisoning the well

A Luddite approach to more ethical AI use.

First test version of Opera One R2 browser

Opera unveils the newest version of its flagship browser.

Fighting bots is fighting humans

The downside of protecting content from AI scrapers.

CriticGPT

OpenAI now uses AI to spot errors in ChatGPT’s output.

How to avoid features that flop

Quick feedback with one-question surveys.

Microfeatures I love in blogs and personal websites

Delightful website features for your inspiration.

Flameshot

An open-source, cross-platform screenshot tool.

Google warns of soft 404 errors

They can impact a website’s crawlability and indexing.

Zero-Click Search Study 2024

“Google continues to send less and less to the open web.”

Should I remove this blog from Google Search?

To delist it, or not to delist it, that is the question.

Firefox arrives with selective translation

“It has been a while since Firefox received some meaningful feature additions.”

Fixing websites is a growth opportunity for freelancers

How modern website creation offers a business chance.

Web content, the social contract, and copyrights

How can we deal with website copyright violations?

Google now defaults to not indexing your content

“Small bloggers or niche websites face a much higher bar for inclusion.”

Private Browsing 2.0

Apple aims to set a new standard for private browsing.

Mozilla disappoints us yet again

Firefox collects user data for ads unless you opt out.

The four newsletter growth quadrants

Newsletter growth often requires a mix of strategies.

How many people actually recommend?

What the results of four longitudinal studies reveal.

Google shortener links will soon be unavailable

What you need to know if you are a goo.gl user.

Macro vs. micro conversions

How they can help you optimize your product for success.

The Boagworld Show

The renowned web design podcast is coming back.

Apple Maps on the web launches in beta

Users worldwide can now access it from their browser.

Google is the exclusive search engine on Reddit now

The exclusivity stems from a multi-million dollar AI deal.

Bing’s updated AI search will make site owners happy

It breaks with other search engine’s zero-click layouts.