Reading Log
I like to read on the web, and bookmark most of it on my Raindrop account. Fellow Internet person, this list is as close as you can get to my personal stream of thoughts.
50 Hours to Draw Some Lines - Doug MacDowell
Hand drawn data visualizations by artist Doug MacDowell.
https://www.dougmacdowell.com/50-hours-to-draw-some-lines.html
unread – 6 days ago- process
- design
- visualization
- data
Taking on the Annoyance Economy - Groundwork Collaborative
https://groundworkcollaborative.org/work/taking-on-the-annoyance-economy/- unread – last week
- economics
- capitalism
- spam
The old world of tech is dying and the new cannot be born
Writing at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland
https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2026/the-old-world-of-tech-is-dying/- unread – last week
- technology
- society
Advice for New and Aspiring Consultants
A couple years ago a family member who was thinking about starting their own consulting company reached out to me, and I wrote up a long answer to them about what I had learned so far that I hoped …
https://free-dissociation.com/blog/posts/2026/05/advice-for-new-and-aspiring-consultants/Kevin Powell
Helping you fall in love with CSS.
https://www.kevinpowell.co/article/tell-someone-you-appreciate-them/La Production de l'espace – Henri Lefebvre
https://api.raindrop.io/v2/raindrop/1724159294/file?type=application/pdf- unread – last week
- space
- urbanism
- architecture
- society
- _internetvivant
How to deal with your kid leaving
My child is in high school and I’ve been in deep mourning for the last two years that they’ll (likely) be leaving me first for college, and then for...life!
https://buttondown.com/monteiro/archive/how-to-deal-with-your-kid-leaving/The Great Zombification
“And so perfect parallel constructions fill the lecture halls, the take-home tests, the school newspapers, and perhaps even the idiom of student chatter.”
https://www.thenewcritic.com/p/the-great-zombification- unread – 2 weeks ago
- education
- academia
- society
Post de @standplaatskrk.pl — Bluesky
https://bsky.app/profile/standplaatskrk.pl/post/3mkb5zu4nm22oAspartame: Once more unto the breach
Like it or not, there’s a clear scientific consensus
https://dynomight.net/aspartame/Own Your Web – Issue 18: Curators
Hi All! 🤗 The Latin word curare means “to take care of.” It’s the root of curator – a person whose work is not to create, but to care. To select, to arrange,...
https://newsletter.ownyourweb.site/archive/own-your-web-issue-18-curators/A $3,000 Website Is a Lie You Both Agreed To – Stefan Iordan
You paid $3,000. The agency kept 40% as overhead and margin.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/3000-website-lie-you-both-agreed-stefan-iordan-qlzaf/The End of Eleventy
Build Awesome is a rebrand of 11ty/Eleventy, backed by a successful $40k Kickstarter. But this attempt to monetize static site generators repeats the same mistakes that killed Gatsby and Stackbit—and misunderstands who actually builds static sites.
https://brennan.day/the-end-of-eleventy/A Primer on Long-Duration Life Support
Life support is the hardest technical obstacle to the human exploration of Mars.
https://mceglowski.substack.com/p/a-primer-on-long-duration-life-supportThe Last Quiet Thing
Your possessions came alive. Now they won't stop talking.
https://www.terrygodier.com/the-last-quiet-thingThe 49MB Web Page
A look at modern news websites. How programmatic ad-tech, huge payloads and hostile architecture destroyed the reading experience.
https://thatshubham.com/blog/news-audit“This Is Not The Computer For You” · Sam Henri Gold
Sam Henri Gold is a product design engineer building playful, useful software.
https://samhenri.gold/blog/20260312-this-is-not-the-computer-for-you/Why I Don’t Vibe Code | jacobharr.is
A “brief” accounting of various reasons why vibe coding has just never clicked for me personally as a developer.
https://jacobharr.is/personal/i-dont-vibe-code.htmlMike X. Nichols (@mikexnichols.bsky.social)
i often think about this review
https://bsky.app/profile/mikexnichols.bsky.social/post/3mes2hozcp22pSounds on The Web
Sound is the forgotten sense in web design. Used well, it adds feedback, personality, and presence that visuals alone cannot achieve.
https://www.userinterface.wiki/sounds-on-the-web