Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.
What the ephemerality of the Web means for your hyperlinks
Hyperlinks are a powerful tool for journalists and their readers. Diving deep into the context of an article is just a click away. But hyperlinks are a double-edged sword; for all of the internet’s boundlessness, what’s found on the Web can also be modified, moved, or entirely vanished. The fragility of the Web poses an […]
You Might Debate It — If You Could See It
Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.
The Evolution of Creativity
Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.
Saying “No” In an Age of Abundance
Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.
Disaster, doubt, and the origins of hypertext
Hypertext and the World Wide Web are built on a complex network of ideas that originate in the military and ecological disasters of the short 20 th Century, 1914--1989, and in a world-spanning intellectual effort to prevent their recurrence. Though that effort now appears to have failed, and though the tragic story of the 20 th Century has not, it seems, concluded, we may learn profit by examining the concepts and ideals on which hypertext was built.
The AI Aesthetic
Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.
The story of this blog so far: 'AI', the death of web dev, and feeling like an outsider
Writing at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland
Make It Work vs. Make It Good
Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.
Icons in Menus Everywhere — Send Help
Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.
FediForum | Growing the Open Social Web un-workshop, 2026/03/02
ChatGPT's Atlas: The Browser That's Anti-Web - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
No Longer No Sense of an Ending
This is my first feature piece on Contents Magazine, about harnessing the properties of hypertext and the Web for superior reader experiences and business results.
social hypertext
http gave us hypertext. atproto gives us social hypertext.
The web we lost
A melancholy reflection about what happened to the web mixed with some positive imagination about to do about it.
A new app, HyperTexting, turns the open web into a scrollable social media-like feed | TechCrunch
marking off AI slop / seo spam pages experimenting with collective action on the whole internet
HTTP gave us hypertext, atproto gives us "social hypertext"
Building on some of @chrisshank.com's work, what if we had browsers that were atproto-native? orange link = in your PDS green link = in the…
What Was the Internet?
Google Reader was building the wrong future
We Build On Hope @ PublicSpaces Conference 2026
Against the dark forest
J. R. Carpenter || A Handmade Web
The web was always about redistribution of power. Let's bring that back.
