Own Your Web – Issue 18: Curators:
So what becomes valuable, in a world like this? Not more content. We are drowning in content. What becomes valuable is someone you trust, saying: This is worth your time. Here’s why.
That’s curation. And it’s not new.
A superb entry from Matthias on blog curation (packed with great links)
Sunday, April 5, 2026
From the first Fast Company article I’ve read in years:
All I know for sure is that using Surf leaves me feeling better about the state of the internet. I am aware that the net is rapidly filling up with AI-generated slop, and that, furthermore, the technology’s impact on search and advertising threatens to disincentivize humans from bothering with the medium at all. But for now, there’s still lots of great stuff out there—and Surf is a refreshingly inventive way to find it.
I’ve been playing with Surf this week. I had the iOS beta months ago, but some kind of bug made me lose interest. Now, however, I’m having great fun making feeds and calmly reading through others. Love it.
Sunday, March 29, 2026
From Thereallo:
The official White House Android app has a cookie/paywall bypass injector, tracks your GPS every 4.5 minutes, and loads JavaScript from some guy’s GitHub Pages.
Put me down as “unsurprised”.
Friday, October 10, 2025
The main person behind Tiny Tiny RSS is to shut down the project on November 1st:
The reasons for this are many but the tl;dr is that I no longer find it fun to maintain public-facing anything, be it open source projects or websites. As for tt-rss specifically, it has been ‘done’ for years now and the “let’s bump base PHP version and fix breakages” routine is not engaging in the slightest.
Sad news, but I’m sure the project will be forked and kept going in some vain.