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2026

September

Sep 6 AI Slop Isn’t the Same Thing as AI-Assisted Work AI AI slop authorship human creativity writing
Sep 2 The Case for Owning Your Online Identity digital ownership domain names Fediverse independent web online identity RSS

August

Aug 29 Why Old Software Sometimes Feels Better computing history digital ownership old software retrocomputing software design
Aug 25 What Is Gemini and Why Would Anyone Use It? Gemini Gopher independent web Open Standards plain text
Aug 21 The Strange Persistence of IRC chat internet history IRC online communities Open Standards
Aug 17 Can You Still Use an Old OS on the Modern Web? Linux old operating systems retrocomputing web browsers web standards
Aug 13 What We Lost When Websites Became Platforms decentralization independent web internet history personal websites platforms RSS
Aug 10 Why RSS Never Really Died Feed Readers Google Reader Open Standards Podcasting RSS Web History
Aug 9 Why I Left Cloudflare Cloudflare decentralization DNS privacy self-hosting web infrastructure
Aug 9 Why Dead Parrot BBS Exists BBS culture Fediverse Gemini personal web RSS self-hosting