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Joining the IndieWeb Zine Pop Up

On Saturday I joined an IndieWeb pop up about zines, hosted by Morgan. The meetup was about both zines and the intersection of zines and personal websites – the affordances of each medium, how the mediums compare, where the mediums intersect, and more. I helped take notes (no...

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The end of websites?

@kevinpowell asking important questions here:
https://youtu.be/Xpk7soxvOMY?is=PEXcsjf9Dnwo5-8f

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Ready

When I start writing, sometimes I go to the search engine on my website to see if I have written about a topic before. I did this when I was writing background; foreground. I had been thinking about the contrast between backgrounds and foregrounds for a while, so I wondered i...

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Background; foreground

In a way, I carry my website with me wherever I go. Technically, my website is a few keystrokes away on my phone, but I think the presence of my website extends beyond the technical. Having a website encourages me to write, I think, because I know I have a place to put and sh...

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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

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I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by cumulative layout shift.

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Ad Infinitum

At Google I/O this week, the company announced the biggest change to Search in 25 years. The ten blue links? Gone. Instead, you get “generative UI” – custom interactive widgets, built on the fly by Gemini. You get “information agents” that monitor the web for you around the ...

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✍️ New post: Ad Infinitum

Google announced the biggest change to Search in 25 years at #GoogleIO. But where are the ads…? 🤔

https://matthiasott.com/notes/ad-infinitum

Dan’s Polaroids

19.05.2026

A singer with eyes closed, singing behind a microphone.
Recording and rehearsal.

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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/

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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/

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Setting type so big Figma loses track of where the text boxes end. That’s the way. ☺️

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@NaN “Server go boinks!” 😂👏 (g💀💀d luck! 🤞🖤)

@NaN “Server go boinks!” 😂👏

(g💀💀d luck! 🤞🖤)

Dan’s Polaroids

18.05.2026

A puzzle of a turtle underwater.
Finished another side project.

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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.

Dan’s Polaroids

17.05.2026

Me and my SX-70 partially visible in a narrow kitchen mirror inside a wooden hut.
We said goodbye to the cozy little hut we occupied for the weekend.

Dan’s Polaroids

16.05.2026

A view of the Rhine from a hillside with a castle and a child in the foreground and a little town in the background.
More hiking and more views today.

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My favourite typewriter

This is my entry to this month's Bear Blog Carnival, on the topic of our favourite thing in a niche hobby. Thank you for hosting, Kami! This was a fascinating topic to think about. Alternative Text My favourite typewriter is the one I have: a Royal typewriter, likely decades...

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@webrocker Gutes Spiel! 🤝🤗

Dan’s Polaroids

15.05.2026

A field with a leafless tree on top and big summer clouds in the sky.
We hiked a little.