Wooden’s 8 laws of learning

Explanation, demonstration, imitation, repetition…

Introducing Lumo 2.0

“The most powerful private AI.”

The AI Compass

Which of 30 AI archetypes are you?

Cloudflare’s economic layer of the AI web

The shift from ‘pay per crawl’ to ‘pay per use’.

Bring back crappy forums

What if we had stuck with them?

My review of Uruky

Uruky compared to the Kagi search engine.

SmoothCSV

Edit your CSV files intuitively the way you want.

OpenAI is shutting down Atlas

But its AI browser ambitions are still growing.

The problem is prompt debt

“You can’t be model agnostic if you’re hand-tuning prompts.”

HyperTexting

Your social timeline powered by the open web.

All the futures

You don’t want to be left behind.

Introducing Precursor

Cloudflare strengthens bot detection with behavioral signals.

The State of Open Source AI

Where open AI is winning and where it is exposed.

25 years of visual search innovation

Google revamps its image search with a browsable gallery.

The reverse information paradox

“You essentially pay for intelligence twice.”

Is your browser up to date?

Why keeping browsers updated remains a challenge.

What the Floccus?!?

Another look at cross-browser bookmark synchronization.

Decoy Font

A font that fools AI when reading images.

Why I stopped ‘creating content’

When business language misses the human side.

The future of the website

“Not dead. Not even close. But different.”

Why I don’t care if content is AI-generated

“Scepticism about all online information is justified.”

This could be the golden age of the internet

“We have all the ingredients for a renaissance of little apps.”

Kill the Cookie Banner

How you can help and take action.

How to get the most out of AI

Be a student, a scientist, a detective, and a surgeon.

Google AI Overviews changing the game

Climbing the same old ladder won’t yield the same results.

Should you use AI for a task?

Ask if the doing is the whole point.

Lessons from writing for billions of users

“Some lessons are about words. All are about people.”

Search Console’s AI search report

What the new report can help you diagnose.

Your audience isn’t that valuable

The “low virality, high authority” content strategy.

The two types of content AI can never make

“It’s easy to differentiate your content from AI.”

Best Google Analytics alternatives for 2026

Find the right web analytics tool for your needs and budget.

New EU guidelines for AI labelling

How it affects companies with EU operations worldwide.

Zero click searches at an all-time high

“More people than ever stay in Google’s ecosystem.”

TIME is serving AI bots a different website

Humans get HTML; AI crawlers get Markdown with ads.

The Idea Machine

Stuck on what to build next?

Local AI models will not win

How might local models win anyway?

The end of Google Search as we know it

“Google’s success is now kind of your problem.“

Building AI search around people

Mozilla partners with Exa for open AI search in Firefox.

Startpage comes to Firefox

The privacy-first European search engine lands in Firefox.

Be a hater all you want, AI’s here to stay

“Our kids will be wondering what all the fuss was about.”

AI is lying to us, and nobody seems to care

“The best thing it can learn to say is ‘I’m not sure.’”

How much of the web is written with AI?

Since ChatGPT, a third of published pages show AI signs.

AI images can perform like stock photos

But spotting signs of AI may still erode trust.

Newsletter CTA in your website header/navigation

Make your newsletter sign-up impossible to miss.

Newsletter CTA in your website footer

Make your website footer a solid driver of sign-ups.

Google Search rolling out passthrough URLs

Goto redirects make search scraping harder for bots.

Google updates Site Reputation Abuse policy

Parasite SEO is now handled differently in the European Economic Area.

Hardcore IndieWeb

Run your website independently for only $0.01/day.

Do it 14,000 times slower

Every writer already knows the trick.

Designers/developers’ biggest time wasters

Where your hours go and how to reclaim them.

RIP My Build

Your side project deserves a proper funeral.

GDPR is good, judging by who hates it

Privacy’s loudest enemies are its best promoters.

Reading and writing are interfaces

“Let’s not pretend AI invented slop.”

The workslop tax

“Thanks to AI, I saved hours on my work!”

Grok Bot for designers and product teams

Compared to Claude Cowork, Hermes Agent, and OpenClaw.

Why we should anthropomorphize AI agents

”It’s a much better way to predict their behavior.”

The State of Ecommerce 2026

How AI is reshaping the shopper journey.

Usenet-Rewind

Search newsgroup discussions that predate the modern web.

Preferred Sources in Google Search

How to add the button to your website.

Mozilla and Mistral’s open browser partnership

Private AI arrives in Firefox Smart Window beta.

The most important product decision

“Ask what they killed and the room goes quiet.”

“A collection of personal websites and an RSS reader can produce a surprisingly good Internet. It will probably be a smaller one. That’s fine.”

Shotbox

Drop a screenshot, add a background, add some padding.

Marketing funnel vision

“Careful, remember what happened the last time.”

Proton partners with Apertus

Swiss sovereign AI arrives in privacy-first Lumo chatbot.

Google AI ranking factors

The expert guide to getting cited by Google AI.

I don’t like passkeys

“A poor fit for personal security.”

Multimodal Google Search performance reporting

Search Console now surfaces visual search insights.

When should you disclose AI use?

Enter PACED to untangle the AI disclosure paradox.

Pixel Area

Every pixel is a person’s place on the web.

Email has never been free

“The question is only who pays for it, and how.“

Building a certificate authority for everyone

Cloudflare becomes a CA at global scale.

Can you take your AI memory with you?

The lock-in isn’t the model, it’s the memory it holds.

Google Analytics 2026

New features that turn reporting into insightful analysis.

Take the work, keep the money

“The more we learn about how AI does business, the more unfair it looks.”

“You won’t be replaced by AI, but you might be replaced by someone who knows when not to use it.”

No Sloptober

“Think of this as a fast for your mind!“

Don’t paste the AI, please

“When someone asks you something, they want your answer.”

Windows and Mac keyboard differences

The keyboard gotchas no web app escapes.

How to turn off AI Overviews in Google

A guide for Chrome, Edge, Firefox, and Vivaldi.

DuckDuckGo No-AI as default search engine

A guide for Chrome, Edge, Firefox, and Safari.

BIGWORDS

Full screen signs, timers and messages.

Crest

“The browser for life after Arc.”

Mozilla introduces Firefox Enterprise

Reclaiming the browser your organization runs on.

Misconceptions about RSS

Debunking the myths that hold RSS back.

An intelligent new shopping cart

Google launches universal cart in the U.S.

More ways to connect with the web

Google puts the web back into AI answers.

What we lost when we lost comments

No blog or newsletter comments, no community.

Tiny Little Office

Where your documents are their own links.

OpenFatigue

The open platform for being tired.

The best private browsers

Which browser deserves to be your new default?

The web is more than enough

Building rich apps in the browser is easier than ever.

A farewell to Arc

The innovative Arc browser sunsets on December 22, 2026.

Lumo creations

Proton’s AI now creates web pages, code, and documents.

Is AI visibility a marketing boondoggle?

“Traffic from AI assistants is nearly non-existent.”

Making websites shouldn’t seem so hard

The case for websites that start with content.

“Does AI mean everyone can ship now? No. Shipping was never just writing the code. It was about figuring out the shortest and most pragmatic path to the finish line, solving all the little problems that crop up along the way.”

Long live the web

"The web is one of the finest inventions of humanity.“

“I want the web that I grew up with to remain: direct linking, independent publishing, view-source culture, and the ability to publish and browse without permission from an authority. I want its openness, its diversity, its weirdness. All of it.”

Easy is taken

Why AI fundamentally can’t make work easy.