New webbed brief from Heydon

https://briefs.video/videos/introducing-webbed-sites/

very much agree with this

Great piece by Jacob Silverman about the growing shittyness of the day-to-day internet experience

https://archive.is/20250419163054/https://www.ft.com/content/5d06bbb4-0034-493b-8b0d-5c0ab74bedef#selection-2009.350-2009.663

Can we find a way back to an internet that puts people in lucid conversation with one another, where books are published after they are written, where anger and insanity aren’t the dominant modes of thought and the defining editorial values are more meaningful than a chumbox of clickbait nonsense? I’m not sure.

ICYI I posted a new vid/pod this week and an accompanying thread about: Everything Is Work Now — Tech products have a work/life balance problem

• Vid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_os9Pp3AYW4
• Pod: https://pnc.st/s/faster-and-worse/7cdb9dc1/everything-is-work-now
• Thread masto: https://hci.social/@fasterandworse/114352163970046171
• Thread bsky: https://bsky.app/profile/fasterandworse.com/post/3lmykmxv6qs2w

Here’s my audio/video dispatch about framing tech through conservation of energy to kill the magical thinking of generative ai and the like podcast ep: https://pnc.st/s/faster-and-worse/968a91dd/kill-magic-thinking video ep: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLHmtYWzHz8

aw thanks

ICYI here’s me getting a bit ranty about generative ai products https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5MQb-uNf2U

how much is templated now? reckon it’ll be 3hrs every time?

I get where you’re coming from but we’re talking about two completely separate layers of abstraction.

If you define data as a material, which you can, then software is going to be a very good means for working with data. It’ll be the best!

But for that to happen you have to have decided that data is the key to whatever purpose you are aiming to satisfy. You’re saying that all purposes are a matter of data manipulation.

I don’t actually say that software cannot be a product, I say that it can’t be categorised as a product in itself. As in, it doesn’t make sense to have “furniture products, exercise products, data products, surveillance products, and SOFTWARE products” - that doesn’t mean something made out of software can’t be a product.

BTW I’m not claiming this is novel, in fact I know it’s not. I’m also not taking it personal, feedback is why I post this shit.

I don’t know what part of my post you are responding to

I hate how much firefox has been growing to this point of being the best, by a smaller and smaller margin, of a fucking shit bunch

This is great, thanks for sharing

It’s probably more sensible for me to try writing short bits too, instead of faffing around with videos

really, thanks for listening! It’s fun making them and nice to know they are being listened to

holy shit, I really don’t know if this is real or a joke

thanks! It might be uncommon because it’s a real pain in the ass to keep it short. Every time I make one I stress about how easily my point can be misunderstood because there are so few details. Good way to practice the art of moving on

😅

the woman who is quote tweeting in the twitter screenshot above. I don’t want to write her name for search indexing

LB creeps me the f out (sorry, not much else to add)

imagine if actual roadmaps just said “we want to tell you how to get there” “we hate giving you bad directions” “we will make sure you get there at some time in the future”