Posts from June 2025

10AM — Can Directories Rise Again?. I sure hope so, but I don’t think many people will put in the work to dig through directories as long as they can access no-effort curated content 24/7.

The only resistance to the current advance of AI is humanity. We are relearning that humans can see through the bullshit. There are examples everywhere.

This is why I love blogs with many links as they are chronologically ordered lists of links curated by humans. I trust humans more when they are posting for the sake of collecting content, instead of posting for reach, and likes and comments and going viral. Because such people don’t see through the bullshit, they contribute to it.

1PM — The hardest working font in Manhattan. Gorton, the font doing the work, is so ubiquitous, once you’ve read this piece you’ll see it everywhere.

9AM — Classic Web posts “screenshots of classic websites and blogs from Dot-Com, Web 2.0 and the 2010s.” Spelunking in the Wayback Machine, indulging in old-fashioned web design is one of my favourite past times. So this is right up my alley.