I believe we are at a similar juncture with social apps as we have been with open source thirty five years ago. There’s a new movement on the block. I like to call it “open social”. There are co...
Everywhere.tools is a living collection of open-source design resources. It gathers the experiments, utilities, and side-projects that usually stay hidden in personal repos – and gives them a stage....
I think it’s long past time I start discussing “artificial intelligence” (“AI”) as a failed technology. Specifically, that large language models (LLMs) have repeatedly and consistently faile...
Quiet is a source-available user interface library for the modern Web. It features 88 accessible, performant, localized, and interoperable components along with an optional CSS reset to streamline dev...
Tim Berners-Lee may have the smallest fame-to-impact ratio of anyone living. Strangers hardly ever recognize his face; on “Jeopardy!,” his name usually goes for at least sixteen hundred dollars. B...
At this point, it should be obvious how the market for lemons applies to ill-considered AI-generated content. I’ll let you sketch out that argument yourself since it’s fairly straightforward, and ...
How autonomous can AI agents become? We’re keen to access their power, but afraid of their unpredictability. Fortunately, it’s not the first time we’ve faced this problem. Self-drivi...
A model with surprising predictive power is to treat user effort as a currency that users are spending to buy solutions to their problems. Nobody likes paying it; in an ideal world software would read...
