Assorted links - April 2026
Arts and entertainment
Please compensate the work you appreciate
A certain Brain Baker encourages you to financially support your favorite artists, especially through ethical means.
Why are there no art movements anymore?
Contemporary art becomes diversified and democratized, as kwist said.
Indie web and online life
Endgame for the open web
Anil Dash wrote about how the open web gets threatened by the bad actors (such as AI bots and problematic people).
How to choose your level of digital sovereignty
The IT Blog breaks down 10 levels of owning your digital life, especially on the Internet world.
No-stack web development
David Bushell explains the issues of a dedicated web development stack.
powRSS Who?
This quiz lets you guess who wrote a specific article on the indie web. Pablo Enoc even wrote about this new method of discovering posts in the public RSS feed aggregator.
Sony's Fun Little Computer Company - VAIO
The history of the Japanese personal computing company, as summarized and showcased by bjiru.
The diminised art of coding
Nolan considers coding as a form of creative expression. (Claude could never.)
Your blog is a radio station
As analogized by Jim Grey:
Every time you publish a post, you are programming your station. You are choosing what goes into rotation. Some post types are your familiars, the topics and themes readers already associate with you. Some are deeper cuts, things that matter to you but may not matter to everyone. Some are experiments, signals sent into the dark to see if anyone recognizes them.
Slices of life
The Bay Area, in photos
Anh shared some photos from her trip to the San Francisco Bay Area.