Reading Log
I like to read on the web, and bookmark most of it on my Raindrop account. Fellow Internet person, this list is as close as you can get to my personal stream of thoughts.
"As so often seems to happen, Koolhaas got there first"
Following the surprise success of architectural horror flick Backrooms, Edwin Heathcote considers the basis for our morbid fascination with endless corporate spaces.
https://www.dezeen.com/2026/06/16/backrooms-movie-edwin-heathcote-opinion/
unread – last week- architecture
- society
- culture
Unoffice Hours
A webring for people offering Unoffice Hours.
https://unofficehours.com/- unread – last week
- community
Oh Good, Screwworms Are Back
You say you want to know more about the horror bug that we eradicated only to discover it is making a comeback? You are in luck.
https://www.marginallycompelling.com/p/oh-good-screwworms-are-backidle.news — On the Difference Between Rest and Idleness
Why the wellness industry loves rest, fears idleness, and has spent a great deal of money to keep you from noticing the difference.
https://idle.news/blog/on-the-difference-between-rest-and-idleness/- unread – 2 weeks ago
L'Affaire Siloxane
How antiperspirant fumes nearly got NASA to evacuate the space station
https://mceglowski.substack.com/p/laffaire-siloxane- unread – 2 weeks ago
How building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight
My client was a utility company, and they had a big problem...
https://www.mohkohn.co.uk/writing/html-first/- unread – 2 weeks ago
- web
- development
- design
- business
Opinion | My Students Can’t Read
archived 2 Jun 2026 01:48:26 UTC
https://archive.ph/WY1ykAdvice for New and Aspiring Consultants
A couple years ago a family member who was thinking about starting their own consulting company reached out to me, and I wrote up a long answer to them about what I had learned so far that I hoped …
https://free-dissociation.com/blog/posts/2026/05/advice-for-new-and-aspiring-consultants/Kevin Powell
Helping you fall in love with CSS.
https://www.kevinpowell.co/article/tell-someone-you-appreciate-them/How to deal with your kid leaving
My child is in high school and I’ve been in deep mourning for the last two years that they’ll (likely) be leaving me first for college, and then for...life!
https://buttondown.com/monteiro/archive/how-to-deal-with-your-kid-leaving/Post de @standplaatskrk.pl — Bluesky
https://bsky.app/profile/standplaatskrk.pl/post/3mkb5zu4nm22oAspartame: Once more unto the breach
Like it or not, there’s a clear scientific consensus
https://dynomight.net/aspartame/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,...
https://newsletter.ownyourweb.site/archive/own-your-web-issue-18-curators/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.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/3000-website-lie-you-both-agreed-stefan-iordan-qlzaf/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.
https://brennan.day/the-end-of-eleventy/A Primer on Long-Duration Life Support
Life support is the hardest technical obstacle to the human exploration of Mars.
https://mceglowski.substack.com/p/a-primer-on-long-duration-life-supportThe Last Quiet Thing
Your possessions came alive. Now they won't stop talking.
https://www.terrygodier.com/the-last-quiet-thingThe 49MB Web Page
A look at modern news websites. How programmatic ad-tech, huge payloads and hostile architecture destroyed the reading experience.
https://thatshubham.com/blog/news-audit“This Is Not The Computer For You” · Sam Henri Gold
Sam Henri Gold is a product design engineer building playful, useful software.
https://samhenri.gold/blog/20260312-this-is-not-the-computer-for-you/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.
https://jacobharr.is/personal/i-dont-vibe-code.html