The left is missing out on AI: ‘…ceding debate about a threat and opportunity to the right.’
Computing
2026-03-04: A GUI for the Substack archiving process
2026-02-25: 📚 Finished reading This Is for Everyone by Tim Berners-Lee.
2026-02-21: Companies are trying to force their employees to use generative AI
2026-02-19: Researchers find that using X's algorithm shifts people's political views to the right
2026-02-17
2026-02-16: How to archive even paid Substacks - converting them into an eBook
2026-02-10
Stop generating, start thinking: Arguments against letting Claude Code et al just blindly do your whole job for you.
2026-02-08: Where to view and download the recently released 'Epstein files'
2026-01-29
Phantom Obligation: ‘The guilt you feel for something no one asked you to do.’, and how software design can exacerbate it.
2026-01-11: It looks like some clever coders have figured out how to remove DRM from newer Kindle books now. …
2025-12-31
When Online Content Disappears: On link-rot - ‘A quarter of all webpages that existed at one point between 2013 and 2023 are no longer accessible’
2025-12-28
Okay, so age verification is pretty painless. It’s still not a good thing. At all.: ‘It doesn’t work. It’s intrusive. It creates new vulnerabilities.’
2025-12-27
Why RSS matters: RSS has always seemed like one of the increasingly few unconditionally good aspects of the internet to me.
2025-11-16: Easily download all your completed Datacamp course materials for future offline usage
2025-10-28: OpenAI estimate that a million people a week show suicidal intent when using ChatGPT
2025-10-26
The Majority AI View: Perhaps there’s a silent majority who think that we should just treat it as a “normal technology”?
2025-10-25
ChatGPT’s Atlas: The Browser That’s Anti-Web: Bad UI, doesn’t actually let you see the web, and uses you as a way to snaffle up data it otherwise wouldn’t be able to.
AI eats leisure time, makes employees work more, study finds: “their effect has been to make people work more while benefiting less from their labor.”
2025-10-20: Talks I attended from New Scientist Live 2025
2025-08-21: Join in the Archive Team and help save at-risk online content into the Wayback Machine
2025-06-20: WhatsApp deploys advertising and accidentally leaks someone's personal information via its AI assistant
2025-05-20: The SingleFile extension lets you easily archive complete webpages
2025-04-23
RIP to the Google Privacy Sandbox: Third-party cookies will continue in Chrome.
2025-04-13: TIL: Microsoft Windows does not include country flag emojis. Somewhat unbelievable I only just …
2025-04-05
A new security fund opens up to help protect the fediverse: Money to help find and fix those sometimes-critical bugs.