On the evolution and growth of fluorescent colors in modern culture—especially in bright, neon, DayGlo form.

With so much hype and hate around Web3, let's take a measured look at what it is and what it can do.

My last post (“The balance has shifted away from SPAs”) attracted a fair amount of controversy, so I’d like to do a follow-up post with some clarifying points. First off, a defini…

Please go ahead, screenshot that NFT - reupload it; hell, use the screenshot as your Twitter PFP despite not having paid a single Wei for it! Yes, I don't care - It's because an NFT's i

If you could properly replace an iPhone battery with a couple of simple tools, Apple would surely just send you the simple tools. But if that were the case there’d be no need for this program.

This document exists to lay out some general principles of running a small social network site that have worked for me. These principles are related to community building more than they are related to specific technologies.

DISCLAIMER: this post is purely for educational purposes, the author assumes no responsibility for potential criminal actions derived from the information contained therein. Hundreds of new web vulnerabilities are discovered every year.Some are communicated to the vendor or to organizations such as MITRE, others are sold on the deep web as sinister intellectual property.Some are

Years of bad decisions finally catch up to them

Building a better internet won't happen by chance or simply maximizing freedom. We have to build systems that support justice. How can we do that?

No-code programming is shaping everything from gaming to website development, and soon it’ll have a role in machine-learning too.

Stacks of wisdom from a great essayist Life Skills Is It Worth Being Wise? A wise person knows what to do in most situations, while a smart person knows what to do in situations where few others...

C: The Boring (and Probably Correct) Choice

She might have done her PhD thesis about Artificial Intelligence under the supervision of John McCarthy, or have a programming principle…

Posted on 2022-05-23

Warner Bros. Discovery is a company that makes a lot of sense, both because of its content and also its strategy, which treats streaming as an additional channel, not a reason-for-being.

“Shadow automation” isn’t yet as big of a phenomenon as shadow IT. But siloed, one-off automation workarounds can easily derail an organization’s overall automation efforts.

Two directions at once.

Posted on Friday 20 May 2022. 1,814 words, 13 links. By Matt Webb.

A timeline of some of the greatest hits in cryptocurrencies, NFTs, and other web3 projects since the beginning of 2021

When I was a wee lad, 28, 29, 30, I knew the C Windows API by heart. I had, in my bathroom, both the technical docs and a copy of Petzold, and I knew it cold, stone cold. Every one of the ~500 calls, all of the arguments, and for most of them, the order of the arguments. I was a good programmer ...

Despite what you’ve heard, the word “imagineering” is not unique to Disney. In fact, it’s a phrase that was first used in World War II corporate propaganda.

Software — noun 1. A collection of instructions that tell a computer how to work.

Once you grok Emacs, you realize that it's a thermonuclear toaster that can also serve as the engine for... well, just about anything you want to do with text. When you think about how much your compu

Posted on Wednesday 18 May 2022. 774 words, 4 links. By Matt Webb.

Posted on 2022-05-15

The iPod is leaving the market, which means that now’s as good a time as any to consider the many audio players it vanquished along the way.

Cheap Tickets, one of the first big digital travel companies, has a hell of a corporate history—one with nothing to do with the internet.

Blogging pioneer Noah Grey on the march of technology, the old internet, and the social media landscape of today.