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A listicle presenting 95 personal, philosophical, and creative reasons for maintaining a personal website, emphasizing self-expression, community, and digital ownership.
The author joined the IndieWeb movement and shares what they learned about its principles, protocols, and how they improved their personal website.
An update on the escalating problem of AI scraper bots overwhelming websites, discussing residential proxy networks and their impact on the open web.
This article proposes running ActivityPub on top of the AT Protocol's PDS, arguing that combining the two architectures could offer better user agency and credible exit while maintaining compatibility with existing federated social media.
This paper proposes a constrained, verifiable agent framework for open-web data collection that shifts LLM output from free-form code to typed JSON collector configurations, achieving zero execution-stage LLM tokens and low latency on 80 tasks.
A survey by WordPress VIP finds that 60% of U.S. consumers are turned off by brands using 'AI' in messaging, and 86% don't fully trust AI, preferring original sources. The report highlights the tension between AI visibility and human trust.
The EU's tech sovereignty plan prioritizes semiconductors, cloud, AI, and data centers while underfunding open source and decentralized social media, revealing a misunderstanding of social infrastructure as core infrastructure.
A survey analyzing over 300,000 web feeds on the top 500k sites reveals that while feeds remain prevalent, most are abandoned or low quality due to automatic CMS generation. The author used AI agents to process Common Crawl data and calls for better feed management practices.
Developer Rodrigo Arias Mallo proposes forking the Web by creating an alternative, simplified HTML/Web specification with goals including strict semantic versioning, a formal unambiguous grammar, and a size-constrained spec to encourage browser diversity. The proposal is linked to the lightweight Dillo browser project.