How do you explain starting a blog in 2023? What possible excuse can there be, on an internet whose only real rule is to never look backward, to hitch your wagon to a 20 year old discarded format? Well, in the words of the kids who are gleefully strip-mining 20 year old culture for music and clothing fashions, blogging was… a vibe.

It's never been clearer that the VC founder's whole outlook on life revolves around how great it is to be rich and how shameful it is to be anything else.

I resigned from The Intercept today in order to pursue a new kind of journalism here on Substack, one more hard-hitting than what’s possible in the corporate world. The Intercept has been taken over by suits who have abandoned its founding mission of fearless and adversarial journalism, and I can’t continue in an environment where fear of funders is more important than journalism itself.

Coercive force will not make anybody happy because it will not accomplish anyone's goals, even those who most want to see the protesters gone.

As the TikTok ban threatens the social media ecosystem, agency execs debate investing in the fediverse.

Bluesky is built by around 10 engineers, and has amassed 5 million users since publicly launching in February this year. A deep dive into novel design decisions, moving off AWS, and more.

This is the story of how Google Search died, and the people responsible for killing it.

After President Biden signs the bill to force a sale of the video app or ban it, the legislation will face court challenges, a shortage of qualified buyers and Beijing's hostility.

CPU performance for web apps hasn't scaled nearly as quickly as bandwidth so, while more of the web is becoming accessible to people with low-end connections, more of the web is becoming inaccessible to people with low-end devices even if they have high-end connections.

Uri Berliner gave a perfect example of the kind of journalism he says he's against.