Feeds from people participating at the IndieWebCamp Düsseldorf, May 2025.
The end of websites?
@kevinpowell asking important questions here:
https://youtu.be/Xpk7soxvOMY?is=PEXcsjf9Dnwo5-8f
Ready
Background; foreground
Oh! Listening to my favorite podcast @shoptalkshow reminded me that I forgot to connect the dots to another, probably totally unrelated detail: that Chrome just shipped with the Prompt API and a 4GB Gemini Nano model, despite pushback from other browser makers.
https://matthiasott.com/notes/lazy-and-prompt
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by cumulative layout shift.
Matthias Ott
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Ad Infinitum
✍️ New post: Ad Infinitum
Google announced the biggest change to Search in 25 years at #GoogleIO. But where are the ads…? 🤔
19.05.2026
Of course, there will still be ads. And auctions as well. And not only will that determine which ads show up, but how many words the LLM is writing about a product. They call it “prominence allocation”. The ad is in the generated content.
(Thanks @sijmen for the hint!) https://blog.reachsumit.com/posts/2024/08/ads-llm/
So Google is basically killing their main product? The ingenious money machine that made them billions? Or am I missing something … I mean: where are the ads? 🤔
https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/19/google-search-as-you-know-it-is-over/
Setting type so big Figma loses track of where the text boxes end. That’s the way. ☺️
@NaN “Server go boinks!” 😂👏
(g💀💀d luck! 🤞🖤)
18.05.2026
Wonders of Web Weaving, Episode 2
The second episode of Wonders of Web Weaving is out: In Episode 2, I chat with Alexandra, the author of xandra.cc, a founder and barista at the 32-Bit Cafe. We talk about, among other things, building indie web communities, communicating the possibilities of having a personal website to new audiences, and more. I hope you enjoy the episode! Wonders of Web Weaving has an RSS feed you can use to follow along from wherever you get your podcasts.
17.05.2026
16.05.2026
My favourite typewriter
@webrocker Gutes Spiel! 🤝🤗
15.05.2026