Link Dump: May 2026
What’s going on, Internet? In true fLaMEd style, I missed the April update, so here are all the bookmarks from April and May 2026.
- Prepping for the endgame of the open web - The History of the Web Jay’s been thinking about this longer than most. The open web has survived worse, but it still needs us to show up.
- Attenuating the Web - The Darth Mall An interesting pushback — RSS readers strip so much of what makes a website actually worth visiting.
- The conditionally open web Cory puts into words something I keep circling back to. The open web was never really open, just conditionally so.
- My Quest to be the Scrobble King Reaching back to scrobbling to fix what streaming broke about music discovery.
- Ctrl-ZINE Issue.24 Stoked my flossing piece landed in this one alongside ~loghead’s proper smol web rallying cry — issue 24 is a good one.
- Joyful web design Treating playfulness on the web as the point, not a frivolous extra you tack on later.
- Who knows that you blog? That weird gap between blogging publicly and never bringing it up with people you actually know
- Have a Fucking Website “The internet was built on websites that linked to one another”, don’t rent your space inside the walled gardens.
- No, I Won’t Download Your App. The Web Version is A-OK. | Sid’s Blog I will avoid your app if I can
- Own Your Web – Issue 18: Curators Is curation the personal web’s superpower now that half the web is AI-generated, or has it always been? 😃
- How to Surf the Web in 2025, and Why You Should Algorithmic scrolling killed surfing, but David Cain reckons the old web is still there if you go looking.
- A Secret Web The indie web isn’t secret, just hidden by commercial search. Benjamin Hollon on the tools we already have to find it.
- the web as a space to be explored · roytang.net The web isn’t dying. Roy Tang reckons the indie web is still alive and explorable
- Join the Inclusive Front Sara Joy’s manifesto for web folks who reckon building inclusively is just doing the job properly
- Your Ai Hate Is Showing - Matt’s Blog Blanket AI-hate misses the target. The problem is the corporations weaponising it, not the tools.
- The Joys of a Small Social Feed How deliberately following a small number people on Mastodon leads to a more peaceful experience. Has me contemplating my own following count.
- Why I Still Like the Internet Gordon on how blogs are quietly winning again
- The Blogger’s Manifesto Eight principles for blogging that go against the “build an audience” playbook. Staying small and honest is the point.
- How to Hate AI There’s a lot of AI hate going around these days, and Steve’s take is where I think it should actually be aimed. AI is out of the bag. It’s happening. Rather than directing hate at people who are curious, learning, and already using the tools, we could focus that energy on learning, understanding, and educating on the best and safest ways to use them.
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