Thoughtful opening talk by @reichenstein at #btconf 👏
An important reminder that making the world less ugly and broken takes true imagination and also a bit of … madness.
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Here we go 🖤 #btconf
Hallo Düsseldorf! 🙌☀️
In case you missed it – and still need something to read this Sunday:
Issue 18 of #OwnYourWeb is out. ✨
Curators.
Hope you like it! 🤗
https://newsletter.ownyourweb.site/archive/own-your-web-issue-18-curators/
Leaving Stuttgart on time!🤞
Aaand off to #btconf! 🎉🥳
(And of course it’s proper @marcthiele weather™ ☀️)
See you later in Düsseldorf!
Wann ist eigentlich endlich Schluss mit der Politik für Reiche Fossile?
✍️ New post: At Machine Speed
A few thoughts about @getkirby’s recent security update and what it means for all of us that AI is now finding vulnerabilities “at machine speed” …
Schon wieder! 🤍♥️😁 #VfBSCF
“So what you’re doing is actually more valuable than what I do: you’re doing the things only humans are good at.”
Yeah, that’s called “actual intelligence”. 😉
The first reply to my newsletter issue on AI flooding the web and the value of human curation is … by a Chinese LLM. 😂✌️Well played …
Great to see that @btconf is almost sold out! 🎉🖤
Again: Who’s going to be there, too? Hands up! 🤚
Issue 18 of #OwnYourWeb is out. ✨
Curators.
✷ Personal site of the (more or less every other) week by @henry ✷
With links to posts and tools by
@anarodrigues, @rachelandrew, @adactio, @anildash, @davatron5000, @manton, @robin, and @zeldman
Thank you all for keeping the open web alive! ✊🎉
https://newsletter.ownyourweb.site/archive/own-your-web-issue-18-curators/
I wasn’t quite satisfied with it yet … so I’ll send out the issue a bit later. Which means there is still more time to sign up! 🎉😜
The agents (of non-enterprise customers) were burning too much money: GitHub tightens usage limits, removes Opus from the Pro plan, and pauses new sign-ups for Copilot individual plans.
https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/changes-to-github-copilot-individual-plans/
It’s been a while… but how about a new #OwnYourWeb newsletter issue, going out tomorrow? 😊
Even Claude says this is bad. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Maybe you should have asked your country of geniuses in a vending machine before deploying this… 😉
Can confirm this for Arc, Brave, Edge, Chromium, and Vivaldi on my machine:
#Anthropic secretly installs spyware when you install Claude Desktop
https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/anthropic-spyware/
Alles Taktik 😬
Alles Taktik. Wir wiegen sie in Sicherheit.
Realmadridbesiegerbesieger 🤍♥️
If you feel like flagging the analytics subdomain of someone’s personal website on various DNS blocklists, at least take the time to look up what Plausible analytics is and why a cookie banner might not be needed before labelling it as "BREAKS EU LAW!" *sigh* 🙄
Also: there are only a few tickets left for what might just be Europe’s finest conference on design, creativity, and the Web. ✨ Trust me: this one’s genuinely special. The kind of event that will change you and your perspectives. 🖤
A week from now, I’ll be in Düsseldorf for @btconf 🎉🤗
Can’t wait to be back in the audience – who will join me there? 👋
“Brevity was always a discipline. Now it’s a statement. When everything around you is excessive by default, choosing fewer words takes courage. It says: I thought about this. I edited. I respected your time more than I needed to show my work.”
Wise words from @zeldman 💙
https://zeldman.com/2026/04/15/the-courage-to-stop/
✍️ New post: Design and Engineering, As One
A #longread about a man with a stopwatch, a school in Weimar, and why the gap between design and engineering isn’t an accident.
https://matthiasott.com/articles/design-and-engineering-as-one
14-year-old today: “The option of me becoming a classic coder, one who writes everything by hand, probably doesn't exist anymore, does it? Too bad, it was actually fun.”
😢
Your AI-generated videos of the Moon sure look impressive. But nothing compares to the real Artemis II footage – they’re almost there 😯:
“LLMs can autonomously, and without fancy scaffolding, find and exploit 0-day vulnerabilities in critical software. This is not something that was true even, let’s say, three or four months ago.”
Just released a small but useful update for my little Internet Archive Plugin for Craft CMS. 🏛️
You can now opt individual entries out of automatic archiving via a lightswitch field – and manually send any entry to the Wayback Machine straight from the Craft CP entries index. ✨