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Web Wanderings (May 2026)

I didn't come across a whole lot of interesting links this month. Or maybe I did and just forgot to make a note of them? That's probably more likely. Either way, here are a few things I discovered and liked.

  • As time passes, the larger our collection of digital stuff grows. Maybe whoami.wiki can help? "Your personal encyclopedia, written by agents". It's inevitable, but I'm not quite ready to hand it all over just yet.
  • I visited New Orleans with work in 2023. I loved it and I want to go back and see it properly. I should probably do this soon because In paleo-climate terms, New Orleans is gone; the question is how long it has.
  • P.T. Barnum wrote “The Art of Money Getting: The Golden Rules for Making Money” in 1880 at the age of 70. His advice is still on point today.
  • As a photographer, I am literally obsessed with the Grainydays YouTube channel.
  • Tapbots are launching Phoenix this summer, their Bluesky client. A tiny company worth supporting. They also make the wonderful Ivory for the Mastodon-inclined.
  • I enjoyed this Radio 4 Americast episode with Scott Galloway – The political fight for American men. An important topic (not just for Americans).
  • I thought I knew a lot about HTML but You don't know HTML Lists quite rightly makes me feel like an amateur. Fascinating.
  • 37signals launched Basecamp 5 and it looks brilliant. If I was still running a multi-employee business, I would use Basecamp, 100%. I'm just a one-man band, so I use the wonderful (and free!) Fizzy, which is also by 37signals. They're on 🔥 these days.
  • California seems to be way ahead with self-driving taxis, and upstart Zoox looks brilliant. The design is polarising, but I'm a fan – they seem very practical. I feel bad for taxi drivers because the writing's on the wall, yet I'd love to see these on the streets of Edinburgh one day.
  • Bubbles is like Hacker News but for independent blogs. I'm probably late to the party, but I love it – what a great idea.
  • Is AI profitable yet? 😬
  • If you’re feeling creative, make your own 8-page zine at home with the awesome Dirty Little Zine.
  • Thank you John Gruber for calling out the veritable scourge of incessant popovers, or “dickovers” as he has christened them.
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