Web Wanderings (August 2026)

Some things I found whilst wandering the web last month. I love that this web site is hosted in a plastic box in a garden in South East London. The story of how Google helped destroy RSS adoption. Don’t be a meat proxy. There’s still hope for user-first software. I like using AI for coding, for sure, but I don’t want a personal super intelligence that’s owned by Meta thanks. How to photograph a solar eclipse. There’s a big one in Egypt next year. Why is the UK's 5G so bad? Let Buffering Britain explain. Commodore (yes, that Commodore) are launching an old-school flip phone and it looks amazing. VS Code inside a terminal 🤯 The WilderNet is a site for sharing and discovering independent writing from around the web. Might be worth adding your blog, this blog, or other Pagecord blogs if you're keen! A wonderful tribute to Dolly 💔 Boketto: The art of doing nothing. “Every day is a thousand attaboys and at least one big oh shit”. Steve Yegge is pushing coding AI at the frontier and it’s…