Flash Back: An “oral” history of Flash(goodinternetmagazine.com)

35 points by surprisetalk 1 year ago | 34 comments

Why I email complete strangers(goodinternetmagazine.com)

197 points by karakoram 4 months ago | 89 comments

Unhooking from Amazon Ebooks(remysharp.com)

45 points by Timothee 1 year ago | 54 comments

Peter Thiel's Apocalyptic Worldview Is a Dangerous Fantasy(jacobin.com)

124 points by robtherobber 10 months ago | 103 comments

The day I locked everyone out of the company intranet(dancowell.com)

152 points by dfcowell 3 years ago | 110 comments

Tim Burton: The internet makes me quite depressed(bbc.com)

9 points by tartoran 2 years ago | 5 comments

A website to destroy all websites(henry.codes)

726 points by g0xA52A2A 9 months ago | 354 comments

An essay by Henry on henry.codes arguing for personal, handmade websites as an alternative to the corporate, platform-dominated web.

I skipped to the ending(danangell.com)

520 points by BHSPitMonkey 3 years ago | 322 comments

A personal blog essay by Dan Angell reflecting on starting to make websites as a child in 2003 and how his path into a software career turned out.

How to post when no one is reading(jeetmehta.com)

598 points by j4mehta 1 year ago | 240 comments

Personal blog essay arguing creators should keep publishing through years of obscurity, since mastery and audience take a long time to build.

LLMs work best when the user defines their acceptance criteria first(blog.katanaquant.com)

411 points by dnw 7 months ago | 368 comments

Substack essay from Vagabond Research arguing that LLMs produce plausible rather than correct code, using a simple database primary key lookup test as an example.

So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe(cole-k.com)

546 points by montroser 3 months ago | 550 comments

Blog post complaining that Reddit now requires users to log in to access the plain-HTML old Reddit interface, citing safety.

Microfeatures I love in blogs and personal websites(danilafe.com)

831 points by fabianholzer 2 years ago | 349 comments

A blog post cataloguing small convenience features the author likes in blogs and personal websites, inspired by Hillel Wayne's language microfeatures article.