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Every culture produces heroes that reflect its deepest anxieties. The Greeks, terrified of both mortality and immortality, gave us Achilles. The Victorians, haunted by social mobility, gave us the self-made industrialist. And Silicon Valley, drunk on exponential curves and both terrified and entranced by endless funding rounds, has given us…

This is delightful whimsy wrapped up in a sensible chuckle. The sort of gigglesome nonsense that washes over you and worms its way into your ears. There's a hint of caper, a soupçon of cosy crime, and a sprinkling of a love story.

And then there's a massive tonal shift…

Every Friday, I share a handful of pieces that caught my eye at the intersection of technology, media, and society.

This is a sort of holiday edition: looking forward and looking back. Whatever you celebrate, whoever you're with, I hope you've had a lovely week, and I hope the next…

[Tim Chambers]

Dewey Digital founder Tim Chambers has spent a lot of time studying and digging into the open social web, including by creating the Twitter Migration Report. So his predictions are well-informed and worth paying attention to.

He’s split them up into safe, plausible, and risky…

I like using microdata within my HTML to provide semantic metadata. One of my pages had this scrap of code on it:

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   itemprop="datePublished"
   itemscope
   datetime="2025-06-09T11:27:06+01:00">9 June 2025 11:27</time>

The Google Search Console was throwing this error:

I was fairly sure that was a valid ISO 8601 string. It certainly…

What’s going on, Internet? This was a quieter year for beer. I checked in less, tried fewer new things, and enjoyed what I drank more. I leaned hard into IPAs, especially West Coast IPAs, spent more time with Bright IPAs, and reaffirmed my appreciation for the humble APA. 2025 wasn’t…

“It’s an interesting year,” is a line I’ve used many times over the last twelve months, at conferences and in conversations. It’s a useful euphemism, sometimes delivered with a wry smile: we all know what I mean.

But it’s also a cop-out.

It lets me hide. If I say it’s…

My friend Sal has written a book! I was lucky enough to get early access to it.

Code, Chips and Control is an in depth look at cyber security. And I do mean in depth - this literally starts at the silicon wafer level! It isn't just about the trivial…

In the 1980s, Minor Threat frontman Ian MacKaye discovered he was opening for The Damned at a show where tickets cost $13.50. His response was to voluntarily cut his band's pay in half. When MacKaye later formed Fugazi, he instituted a rule that became legendary in punk circles: a strict…