“When you think about it, the phrase ‘earning a living’ is really quite vile.”

The Scope Creep

A challenge for still motivated project managers.

Firefox expands fingerprint protections

”It remains committed to fighting for your privacy.”

Introducing AI, the Firefox way

Mozilla’s browser gets AI Window, an opt-in browsing assistant.

The newsletter paradox

Your newsletter grows when you do nothing.

Vivaldi, yea or nay?

First impressions of the AI-free browser.

Custom annotations in Search Console

The new feature lets you add notes to your charts.

Smartify everything

“Why does every product have to be ‘smart’ now?”

Europe’s cookie nightmare is crumbling

Browsers might replace cookie‑consent pop‑ups.

Service outage

How a major internet outage affects productivity.

Rewiring Mozilla

“We’re doing for AI what we did for the web.”

Introducing group chats in ChatGPT

OpenAI’s group chats simplify teamwork with AI.

The GDPR proposal officially unveiled

How the European Union aims to simplify regulations.

Weaving a web of agents

”We’re moving from browsing to doing.”

AI sends 1% of website traffic

Most of the AI referrals are from ChatGPT.

My two-part desk setup

Living and working between an analog and a digital space.

Why clients come, stay, and leave

“Confusing one phase for another gets us in trouble.”

The hidden cost of shipping too fast

Moving quickly doesn’t mean fast progress.

Web monetization is still inching along

Why micropayments over the web remain complicated.

The internet needs an AI off switch

“People want the human internet back.”

Chasing the social media algorithm

“What about our actual audience?”

Company mission, vision, purpose

Are they useful, or academic nonsense?

Google Search hallucinates preview text

Does it replace meta descriptions with AI now?

My website is approaching Google Zero

”Should I just opt out of Google Search altogether?”

Website task flowchart

“Throw phone and laptop into the sea.”

Decades of marketing

“The more things change, the more they stay the same.”

“The world’s greenest AI is here”

Ecosia rolls out new AI-powered search features.

Five AI browsers, same problem

“You’ve got to be fairly adept at prompting.”

The 2025 State of Digital Agencies

It’s still rough out there, but slowly improving.

Searching the IndieWeb

Find real people, real projects, and real writing.

“It’s not about using ‘AI’, it’s about being seen to use ‘AI’. Look at us! We’re cutting edge!”

Opting out of search engines

“Your actions count. Act consciously.”

“The promise AI companies make to investors is that there will be AIs that can do your job, and when your boss fires you and replaces you with AI, he will keep half of your salary for himself, and give the other half to the AI company.”

Simplicity is mastery

Why clear messages win minds, hearts, and markets.

Stop asking AI about how it works

“The model is just confidently hallucinating its own 'reasoning.’”

Why RSS matters

“The future of the web depends on simple, open standards.”

Slop

Merriam-Webster’s 2025 word of the year.

Mozilla’s next chapter

“Firefox will evolve into a modern AI browser.”

A guide to Web Guide

What our hybrid search future might look like.

Firefox is adding an AI kill switch

A switch to turn off all AI features.

Google’s spam problem is getting worse

”Spam is back in search. And in a big way.”

Newsletter lessons I wish I knew

20+ newsletter operators share their experiences.

Ad blockers helped kill the open web

“We failed to innovate monetization.”

“So many people are against AI because they see how it functions as a system for taking away from those with the least, to give even more to the already highly privileged.”

2025 LLM year in review

Paradigm changes that stood out this year.

The rise of industrial software

The collateral damage of AI code factories.

What’s next for AI in 2026

“Content is AI until proven human,” and more.

Why blogging will be huge in 2026

“The era of earned audiences is just beginning.“

A website to destroy all websites

How we can bring the web back to humans.

”A blog alarm clock lives inside me. As time passes, an uncomfortable pressure builds up until the alarm finally goes off, rattling my bones and my soul. Snoozing isn’t an option; the only way to turn the alarm off and release the pressure is to publish a blog post.”

Spot AI hallucinations like a librarian

How source hunts expose AI’s wildest inventions.

How Markdown took over the world

From blog posts to a cornerstone of web technology.

Blogs Are Back

A privacy-first RSS reader with a blog directory.

Claude Cowork

”Claude Code for the rest of your work.”

Google launches Universal Commerce Protocol

AI agents will operate across the user’s shopping journey.

Wikipedia turns 25

Celebrating 25 years of human knowledge at its best!

AI search predictions for 2026

AI giants move forward, website owners struggle.

ChatGPT Translate

Translate text, voice, or images into many languages.

“The amount of information that’s been shared and compiled as a result of the web is incalculable. It’s one of the greatest achievements of modern history.”

Email newsletter benchmarks

What are good open, click, and response rates?

Give your agent a stopwatch

“Agents are only as good as their feedback loops.”

The third website audience

“AI agents are hungry for cleaner content formats.”

Thoughts on the open web

We need a web where people choose open publishing.

Handy

An application to speak directly into any text field.

The future of AI is not intelligence

“It’s how humans will interact with it.”

Google adds ‘auto browse’ to Chrome

It can perform multi-step tasks on your behalf.

New Yahoo Scout AI search

“It delivers the classic search flavor people miss.”

“Designing future AI systems is not just a technical challenge. It’s a moral, social, and political one: about who gets agency, who bears responsibility, and who ultimately benefits.”

Firefox introduces AI controls

You can also disable all AI features at once.

5 stages of AI adoption

How will our work change with AI?

Two kinds of AI users are emerging

Can a small team now outcompete a big company?

AI Overviews reduce clicks by 58%

“Google Search is becoming zero-click.”

Is blogging in the AI era still a thing?

Authentic and efficient blogging via ghostwriting interviews.

Phantom obligation

Why must RSS readers look like email clients?

Reddit search hits 80M weekly users

A new Google Search alternative emerges.

”Paying for software isn’t paying for a solution. It’s paying for someone else to own a problem.”

AI performance in Bing Webmaster Tools

Bing introduces search insights for AI answers.

The software sovereignty scale

How easy is it to take software away from us?

AI doesn’t reduce work

“The natural tendency of AI-assisted work is intensification.”

IndieWeb and Small Web

How they differ and what they have in common.

Web Rewind

Opera celebrates its 30th with a web time machine.

Current

An RSS reader that’s a river, not a to-do list.

Markdown’s moment

What if Markdown became the new RSS?

Search Console AI configuration goes live

Now AI can build the reports you want to see.

Your domain is your “internet handle”

What if your handle worked on any platform?

“Openness is what makes the Internet the Internet. It needs to be actively pursued if we want the Internet to continue providing the value that society has come to depend upon from it.”

Search Bench

Compare search engines blindly and pick the winner.

Glippy

Check if your website is ready for AI search engines.

A new term to call out AI slop

“AI;DR,” short for “AI, didn’t read.”

Perplexity announces “Computer”

An AI agent that assigns work to other AI agents.

AI makes interfaces disposable

Why monetizing UIs is no longer enough.

Predictable by design

Why LLM-generated passwords are insecure.

“The brands that win in the next few years won’t be the ones with the slickest images, photos, or videos. They’ll be the ones that feel unmistakably human. And I think typography is one of the few places where humanity is still undeniable.”

Anthropic details how Claude crawls sites

How to block the three separate user agents.

Software interoperability

Why open standards surpass walled gardens now.

The AI content risk

“Low-quality AI content can tank your online visibility.”

Mastodon’s new share button for websites

Let users share links on the decentralized network.

Search happens everywhere

41 websites with significant search activity.

“If AI runs on text, and voice is how you naturally create it, then learning to dictate fluently is one of the highest‑leverage skills you can develop right now.”

Ad break

“Should’ve taken the 10.99 ad-free deal.”