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Own Your Web – Issue 18: Curators

Hi All! 🤗 The Latin word curare means “to take care of.” It’s the root of curator – a person whose work is not to create, but to care. To select, to arrange,...

• unread – today
• _internetvivant
• internet
• culture
• society

Jeffrey Zeldman Presents - The Courage to Stop - State of the Web

Brevity was always a discipline. Now it’s a statement.

• unread – 5 days ago
• _internetvivant
• web
• communication

A $3,000 Website Is a Lie You Both Agreed To – Stefan Iordan

You paid $3,000. The agency kept 40% as overhead and margin.

• unread – last week
• business

The Future of Everything is Lies, I Guess

• unread – last week
• software
• llm
• technology

The End of Eleventy

Build Awesome is a rebrand of 11ty/Eleventy, backed by a successful $40k Kickstarter. But this attempt to monetize static site generators repeats the same mistakes that killed Gatsby and Stackbit—and misunderstands who actually builds static sites.

• last week
• web
• business
• development
• sustainable

Personal website redesign

Andy Bell is completely redesigning his personal site from scratch and breaking down each part to educate and hopefully, inspire you to build your own corner of the internet.

• unread – last week
• personal
• website
• design
• web

A Primer on Long-Duration Life Support

Life support is the hardest technical obstacle to the human exploration of Mars.

• 3 weeks ago
• technology
• space
• science

The Last Quiet Thing

Your possessions came alive. Now they won't stop talking.

• a month ago
• technology
• attention
• health

The 49MB Web Page

A look at modern news websites. How programmatic ad-tech, huge payloads and hostile architecture destroyed the reading experience.

• a month ago
• web
• technology
• attention
• psychology
• darkpatterns

“This Is Not The Computer For You” · Sam Henri Gold

Sam Henri Gold is a product design engineer building playful, useful software.

• a month ago
• creativity
• culture
• hardware
• computer

Why I Don’t Vibe Code | jacobharr.is

A “brief” accounting of various reasons why vibe coding has just never clicked for me personally as a developer.

• a month ago
• ai
• code
• work

Mike X. Nichols (@mikexnichols.bsky.social)

i often think about this review

• 2 months ago
• _internetvivant
• tech
• culture

Sounds on The Web

Sound is the forgotten sense in web design. Used well, it adds feedback, personality, and presence that visuals alone cannot achieve.

• 3 months ago
• design
• web
• interface
• audio

How I changed my personality in six weeks

Based on emerging research showing people can shift their core personality traits, Laurie Clarke tried tweaking hers. Here's what happened.

• 3 months ago
• psychology
• health
• personality
• therapy

Rami Ismail's Top Games of 2025 | Giant Bomb

Rami Ismail's Top Games of 2025 - A guest list for GiantBomb.com's 2025 Game of the Year extravaganza.

• 3 months ago
• gaming
• culture

The f*** off contact page - Nic Chan

How to get people to NOT contact you

• 4 months ago
• design
• web
• _internetvivant

Stop doing UX cheerleading

Design is being hijacked to create legitimacy for bad ideas. We can do better.

• 4 months ago
• design
• bullshit
• tech
• product

Drinking The Largest Beer At The Airport Makes Everything Better

An essay by Austin L. Ray

• 4 months ago
• travel
• life
• culture

I'm Great At Baby Steps Because I Walk Like That In Real Life - VGBees

CW: medical talk, surgical talk, bones, car accident In late May, an uninsured Lexus driver ran a yellow light and pulled in front of me...

• 4 months ago
• relationships
• health
• game

The Pelvic Floor Is a Problem | WIRED

archived 20 Nov 2025 17:45:34 UTC

• 5 months ago
• health
• exercise
• medicine