Articles

The small things Manifesto

A manifesto written by Andrew Roach proposing that we should try to do things on a human scale again, instead of trying to design everything to scale infinitely.

Writing when tech has broken the web's social contract

An article discussing how writing on the Internet is changing because of AI

If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing

Cory Doctorow writes about DRM and the bullshit of digital “ownership”

Forget Comcast. Here's the DIY Approach to Internet Access

A Wired article about a Spanish engineer who built up a distributed wifi network to provide Internet to his town because telecom companies wouldn’t.

Designing Windows 95's User Interface

A retrospective from someone who worked on the Windows 95 user interface detailing the design process and iteration that went into creating an interface that was accessible to both first-time computer users and existing power users.