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.”

Your browser can already speak a page

How to activate read-aloud features on web pages.

AI is much bigger than you think

“Usage of AI is now 56% the size of search worldwide.”

Your browser becomes your WordPress

“It’s a WordPress that stays with you.”

“When a website is slow, the problem usually isn’t the website. It’s the organisation behind it.”

Internet Phone Book, Issue 2

Your chance to be in the next Internet Phone Book.

Generative AI vegetarianism

Saying no to AI as a mindful lifestyle choice.

More reasons to love Firefox

Free VPN, split view, tab notes, new mascot, and more.

Small Web just got bigger

Kagi’s people-first web directory arrives on mobile apps.

Hire me, hire my AI agents

“I bring my agent team to every client pitch.”

How the inbox spam button works

The impact of reporting a newsletter as spam.

Cookie consent management in 2026 (Part 1)

The organizational aspects of a cookie consent solution.

Search referral traffic down 60%

Small publishers suffered most in the last two years.

The old internet is still here

“What’s changed is our expectations.”

VPN now built into Firefox

It includes 50 GB of free VPN-browsing per month.

Wikipedia bans AI-generated content

Only two limited uses are still acceptable.

Is this product ’human-made’?

The race to establish an AI-free logo.

The end of the Open Web

“We’re once again in the process of fucking things up.”

Endgame for the Open Web

A call to reclaim web sovereignty.

“AI sounds like an incredible genius synthesizing the world’s knowledge right up until you ask it about the thing you know about, then it’s an idiot.”

BorderLab

Design social media image borders with live preview.

Human in the loop

Where 10x productivity dies by a thousand approvals.

The five AI moats

Which ideas actually stay safe from AI copying?

“What I think the world and the people need right now is to slow down a bit. We don’t need to work even more and even faster. We don’t need AI for things that are creative and fun and human.”

Ziptable

Just share small datasets inside a link.

Get more done in Chrome

Meet vertical tabs and immersive reading mode.

We’re all doing the same job now

What now, product managers, designers, and engineers?

RSS dependent websites in 2026

Growing an audience without an email newsletter.

New back button hijacking spam policy

Google will penalize sites that manipulate the browser back button.

How accurate are Google’s AI overviews?

Mostly right, but still wrong millions of times every hour.

Your homepage matters again

AI swings the SEO pendulum back.

The AI writing witch hunt is pointless

We have fought this battle before.

Prove that you’re human

Advice for launching a product right now.

Add personality to your newsletter

Fresh ways to make emails feel human.

HoloTab

An AI browser companion that takes action for you.

What SEOs get wrong about AI search

“SEOs agree on what to do, but not what to call it.”

AI and ambition

How AI makes us more ambitious as web builders.

Zero-click search began long before AI

The future of search may look more like the past.

(One) good AI is here

A glimpse into a future beyond corporate AI.

The basement firm

Running a small team of AI agents for fun.

Actually reading RSS feeds

A time-based method for keeping up with web updates.

When the bill comes due

The growing divide in AI tooling.

The Museum of the Human Web

Celebrating the history of the human-built web.

Google AI search will soon show more links

Connecting you directly with the web sources.

The boring internet

“The internet you grew up on is not gone.”

Netizen

A reminder that the web wasn’t built around profit.

Google Search’s AI gets updates

New ways to discover and navigate web content.

Escape from agentic loop

“Human-in-the-Loop is the new doom scrolling.”

Since You Arrived: taken.

Your browser leaks more about you than you think.

The case for local AI

Why running Claude-level local LLMs is the future.

Google AI search optimization for your website

What Google recommends for AI search visibility.

Grabbit

A lightweight screenshot and annotation tool.

The undo problem in AI products

“Even Notepad from Windows 95 had undo.”

A new era for AI Search

”Search can now do more for you than ever before.”

Google Search as you know it is over

”Links will become an afterthought with the coming changes.”

Agentic Web News

Tracking how AI agents are changing the web.

Ad infini­tum

“Google thinks it no longer needs the web to deliver answers.”

WordPress 7.0 is out

”This release takes it to a new level.”

Designing Firefox for the future

A new design direction for the browser.

Ecosia’s AI search just got better

Now mostly powered by a European provider.

What’s a visitor in the age of AI?

Web analytics lost the meaning of a core metric.

Kagi’s Small Web is wonderful

“They are absolutely on to something here.”

Bubbles

Community-ranked posts from independent personal blogs.

The AI Resist List

How communities resist AI harms and build alternatives.

I’ve banned query strings

“I don’t like people adding tracking stuff to URLs.”

Self hosting passwords

“I haven’t used an online password manager in 5 years.“

The new “Make great content”

Build inimitable products to counter Google’s ambitions.

The inversion of purpose

How the agentic web undermines conversion optimization.

AI traffic vs. AI citations

Google’s AI search is more layered than you think.

Spam in the age of AI search

How SEO spam evolves into AI search manipulation.

Kagi is good enough to leave Google Search

“I’ve never once felt the need to switch back.”

Introducing Webstripes

Visualizing the energy efficiency of web pages.

La Carte Blanche

A project definition framework to avoid chaos.

What 846,000 Google searches reveal

Users now stay longer on search results before acting.

Stop writing prompts

Here’s an AI assistant that does it for you.

107 SEO statistics for 2026

Insights and trends that reveal how search is changing.

Why great content no longer works

MIT research shows the shift reshaping SEO.

The future of the web is weirdly human

What if a website wasn’t a document?