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WordPress.com launches paid newsletters
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YouTube removed dislike counts, so this guy made Rotten Tomatoes for YouTube
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Kids trying to play video games on school laptops
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Apollo dev explains how third-party Reddit apps are affected by API changes
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Own your work
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Chat GPT is the birth of the real Web 3.0, and it's not going to be fun
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BuiltWith: $14M ARR, no employees
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Why “go nuts, show nuts” doesn’t work in 2022
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Mcmaster.com is the best e-commerce site I've ever used
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The internet is already over
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The UX of Porn Tube Sites Are Designed for the Ultimate Money Shot
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The OG Social Network: Other People’s Websites
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Let websites framebust out of native apps
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Botspam apocalypse
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52% of YouTube videos live in 2010 have been deleted
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The Bullshit Web (2018)
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Hate paywalls? 12ft.io is the answer
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Twitter is using its embedded JavaScript to hide tweets that have been deleted
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What are you doing, WordPress.com?
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Start Self Hosting
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How to set up a blog with Hugo and Cloudflare, and why you should
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Adblocking people and non-adblocking people experience a different web
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YouTube: Due to limited creator history we're limiting the number of views
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YouTube is testing people now?
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Chess.com vs. Lichess
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Web4 Should Run on LaTeX
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A Conspiracy to Kill IE6 (2019)
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No More Medium – Build Your Own Site (2019)
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On YouTube’s recommendation system
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The Clickbaitification of Netflix
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Why does NBC make it so difficult to watch the Olympics?
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Old Vidme embeds turn into porn after domain purchase
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Reddit’s disrespectful design
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“Older unlisted videos will be made private unless you opt out”
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The Future of Games is an Instant Flash to the past
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Link shorteners: the long and short of why you shouldn’t use them
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Why you can’t buy a thermapen on Amazon (2016)
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Why Lichess will always be free
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Wix and Their Dirty Tricks
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Fuck Medium
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Please support Web Monetization if you want less ads on the web
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A request for Pinboard old-timers
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How To Get Your First 1,000 Users (2011)
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This Community is Available in the App
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Ad block and you don't stop
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How Go helped save HealthCare.gov
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Google, nobody asked for a new Blogger interface
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Classic Google Sites shutting down by September 2021
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I accidentally built a nudity/porn platform
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They redesigned PubMed
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Design like it’s 1999
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The modern web is becoming unusable
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The Pirate Bay is trialing high-quality video streaming
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Startpage is now owned by an advertising company
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Building the New Twitter.com
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Taboola, Outbrain and the Chum Supply Chain
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“New home page seems like Stack Overflow doesn't allow free use any more”
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An Exercise Program for the Fat Web
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Get Your Book, Make It Free
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A Conspiracy to Kill IE6
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Tumblr refugees trying to save its NSFW content
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One of the world’s most visited websites that nobody is aware of (2017)
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Why Are Newspaper Websites So Horrible?
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Reddit’s Redesign
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Ten Hours of Static Gets Five Copyright Notices
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Why I don't use my real photo when messaging with customers on my website
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Text-only news sites are slowly making a comeback
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Why is there so much free porn on the internet? (2016)
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A list of ways to “Break the Internet” for the 48 hours before the FCC vote
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YouTube is cracking down on external links in videos
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On React and WordPress
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The “Million Dollar Homepage” as a Decaying Digital Artifact
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Must answer questions before posting comments to prove you understand news
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Medium and the Scourge of Persistent Sharing Bars
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July 12th: Internet-Wide Day of Action to Save Net Neutrality
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LA Times and ads
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I've removed all ad network code from my blog
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Getting Rid of Comments on Vice.com
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They Live and the secret history of the Mozilla logo
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What it feels like to be the last gen to remember life before the internet
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Some news from LWN
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Emails from a CEO Who Just Has a Few Changes to the Website
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We Are Hopelessly Hooked
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Adblock Plus blocked from attending online ad industry’s big annual conference
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What web developers should know about SSL
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The Story of BuiltWith
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Why Web Pages Suck
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Facebook and the media: united, they attack the web
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Cheaper bandwidth or bust: How Google saved YouTube
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Google sends reporter a GIF instead of a 'no comment'
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How Betty, Who Is 89, Gets Her News
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Our Director of Engineering on the new Wired.com
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Google, Our Patron Saint of the Closed Web
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Ikea C&D's 8-year old Ikea furniture hacking website
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Scribd and Quora considered harmful
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How The Guardian successfully moved its domain to theguardian.com
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Yale censored a student's course catalog site. I made an unblockable replacement
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Yale students made a better version of its course catalog. Yale shut it down
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Start-up NY: 100% Tax-Free for 10 Years?
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Float Label Pattern
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What happened to Priceonomics?
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GoDaddy, Media Temple, and the Horrible World of Web Hosting
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Born of Reddit, Imgur now dwarfs the ‘front page of the Internet’
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Yahoo showed us 30 days of logos. Here’s the one consumers liked best
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Desperate times call for desperate measures
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Tumblr responds to complaints about censorship
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Good Old Games: gog.com and the DRM-Free Revolution
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This Page Is Why The Internet Sucks
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How did my Google Reader logo become the "default"?
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Changes to the Blog
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Your Tumblr is broken. Fix it.
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How Hotel Reservations Work
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WordPress.com accepts Bitcoin
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The Story of the New Microsoft.com
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Usability Hell: London 2012 Olympics Ticketing Fail
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Just how big are porn sites?
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Why Mozilla will support H.264 on OS that comes with it
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Reddit admin: "If SOPA passes it would almost certainly mean the end of reddit"
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Flash is dead. Long live the internet.
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Modern Web Applications are Here
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Companies that make money by distributing misleading versions of VLC
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AT&T's Rube Golbergian Web Form
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The Internet Might Kill Us All
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Don't Forget Your Logged Out Users
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YouTube Videos Now Served in WebM
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How an Illinois rest stop inspired a web page
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How To Get Your First 1,000 Users
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10 Questions for John Gruber Regarding H.264, WebM
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Title Junk
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Google Groups Data To Be Destroyed
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Scribd Puts My Old Uploads Behind a Paywall and Goes Onto My Shitlist
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The Most Radical A/B Test I've Ever Done
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Mahalo's new spam is worse than old
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"Mad Libs" Style Form Increases Conversion 25-40%
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Daring Fireball: "Facebook login"
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Jason Calacanis’ Backup Plan For Replacing Content: Steal It From Wikipedia
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O'Reilly: "We're heading into a war for control of the web."
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Dear Every Site That Paginates Articles
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Google Groups is Dead
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The problems with url shorteners
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Sign Up Forms Must Die
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Nobody knows what's happening online anymore
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A conspiracy to kill IE6 (2019)
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The internet is already over (2022)
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