Open Tabs October 2026

What’s going on, Internet? If you don’t follow my Bookmarks through the feed, then here’s the bookmarks from October. Enjoy. Bit of a theme this month, the old web was messier and more fun, and running a site now keeps getting harder. Jenny O’Connor on why the embarrassing internet was the good internet. My old fan pages agree. Winnie Lim on why running a personal website is not fun anymore. Rough read. Between AI bots scraping the fuck out of the open web and hackers using AI agents to find holes, no wonder. Aaron’s Early Web Links is a one-person directory of personal homepages, covering all types of personal websites. wulfpaper on why making websites shouldn’t seem so hard. Start with the writing, worry about code and design later. A big alphabetised list of old linkware webset graphics sites. Handy if you’re after that old-school look. For more, check out the bookmarks archive, and subscribe to the feeds if you want these as they happen. Hey, thanks for reading this post in your…