Worth Wandering: HTML Energy
HTML Energy reminds us the web is still something a person can make— open a text file, write some HTML, and you have a website.
Inspired by html.energy · Laurel Schwulst & Elliott Cost
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Worth Wandering: Ytoo!
Ytoo! is a one-person web portal built to send you somewhere else—dense links, hand curation, fake ads, and a guestbook that proves people use it.
Inspired by ytoo.org · VegBao
Joshternet.org Is Live
Joshternet.org is live as the public home for the Joshternet—still PRE-JOSH, with three draft RFCs and room for other Joshes to find what is wrong.
Inspired by joshternet.org
MCP Is Finally Becoming Boring HTTP. Now It Needs Real Agent Delegation
The July MCP spec makes remote servers ordinary HTTP. The harder problem is issuing sub-agents verifiable, narrow authority instead of one giant user token—and that is what makes real autonomy safe enough to want.
Inspired by blog.modelcontextprotocol.io · David Soria Parra and Den Delimarsky
I May Have Accidentally Started the Joshternet
After finding 2,000 Joshes on the independent web, draft RFCs for a decentralized Joshternet—/.well-known/josh, stay on your own site, Joshness is declared never derived.
Inspired by github.com
Against Platforms — Geert Lovink
Waiting on the shelf after current reads — a look at platform culture from Geert Lovink.
Aaron Swartz Was Prosecuted. Meta Torrented Shadow Libraries at Industrial Scale
Curious Quail’s comparison of Aaron Swartz’s JSTOR prosecution with Meta torrenting LibGen and Anna’s Archive for Llama—the cases are not legally identical; the proportionality is hard to ignore.
Inspired by blog.curiousquail.com · Curious Quail
I Found More Than 2,000 Joshes on the Independent Web
Joshing You lists 2,083 Josh-named personal sites. Wandering the directory restores finding something because you were not looking for it—and this site’s Now page is in there.
Inspired by joshing.you
Ian Cortina Put a Real Telnet BBS on a Casio VX-4
Ian Cortina, EI3LH, hosts a working telnet BBS in BASIC on a Casio VX-4’s 8 KB of RAM—bridged by a Pi Zero W at 4,800 baud—proving constraints can be the whole point of a networking experiment.
Inspired by ei3lh.eu · Ian Cortina
Translation Taught Him How Information Should Flow
A Hacker News comment on “My server is a phone now” uses theme and rheme to explain why known information comes first—and how years of Japanese-to-English translation taught one reader to reorganize English for natural flow.
Inspired by seg6.space · seg6.space
The Website Is Often the More Private Version
Why the website is often the more private version of a service than a native app—browser sandbox boundaries limit device access in ways store apps do not, while still leaving room for tracking if third-party scripts load on the open web.
Inspired by nooneshappy.com · No One's Happy
Atom Is Better Than RSS in Ways That Actually Matter
Chris Morgan’s case for Atom over RSS—not novelty, but clearer text constructs, summary versus content, and fewer parser guesses—while podcasting remains the stubborn RSS exception and twenty years of RFC 4287 still wait for wider adoption.
Inspired by chrismorgan.info · Chris Morgan
AI Agents Should Use the Same Web as Everyone Else
Jim Nielsen on why AI agents should not get a private machine entrance to the web—arguing agent investment should fix semantics and accessibility for humans first, not invent a first-class path for models alone.
Inspired by blog.jim-nielsen.com · Jim Nielsen
Google Used to Be the Company Everyone Wanted Sending Them Traffic
Google’s AI results reduce publisher clicks while still needing crawled original work—arguing the old search partnership is flipping into a trap that may consume the open web Google depends on.
Inspired by futurism.com · Victor Tangermann
Bitchat Brings Bluetooth Mesh Chat to the App Store
Bitchat Mesh is an open-source Bluetooth mesh messenger now free on the App Store—no accounts or cellular needed—arguing the radio-like idea is compelling wherever coverage fails, if enough nearby people are also running it.
Inspired by radicle.network
AI Is Consuming the Web It Depends On
Stephen Follows breaks down how AI traffic helped overwhelm The Numbers, a vital independent film-data site—arguing that AI’s appetite for reliable human-maintained sources may make those same sources too expensive and dangerous to keep online.
Inspired by stephenfollows.com · Stephen Follows
We Buried the Web Under Too Much Gunk
Dave Winer’s How the Web Got Gunked argues platforms replaced replaceable web parts with accounts, proprietary feeds, and locked-in writing—offering a simple test: if a piece cannot be replaced without permission, it is not part of the open web.
Inspired by daveverse.org · Dave Winer
A Clubhouse Through SSH
late.sh by Mateusz Piorowski is a cozy SSH clubhouse—chat, music, arcade, news, challenges, and ASCII art—where your key is your identity, no passwords or OAuth, and connecting still feels a little like finding people on a BBS.
Inspired by late.sh · Mateusz Piorowski
AI Can Contribute Without Owning the Architecture
Dave Winer treats Claude as a valued contributor to RSS.chat while keeping the interoperability layer human-owned. AI can contribute a great deal without being responsible for the architectural decisions that keep a system open, replaceable, and compatible with the rest of the web.
Inspired by Dave Winer
A Solid Underdog for the Open Web
rss.chat does not need to dominate the web—it needs enough people willing to use it, test it, and show there is still another way to create social software.
Inspired by scripting.com · Dave Winer
