BlogMix 2023 Wrap-up Vol. 1
For the new year, I’m sharing my favorite bookmarks of 2023 to my microblog. I will post “blogmixes” as a series of volumes. I don’t know how categorized these will end up, but I plan to post the entire collection on my main site towards the end.
As a caveat for the entire BlogMix series, any links I share are because I thought something about the content was interesting, important, wonderful, horrible, or otherwise noteworthy. Including a link does not necessarily mean I agree with a particular message. I considered labeling the links where I don’t agree, but that felt like it took the fun out of the project a bit. We’ll see. This is a new and evolving idea for me.
For this first volume, I included some posts and articles that I’ve either read, rediscovered, or revisited in 2023. I’ll almost certainly do another volume of just posts. Enjoy:
The Death of Decentralized Email
Early Modern Memes: The Reuse and Recycling of Woodcuts in 17th-Century English Popular Print
The World’s First Costume Book: François Desprez’s *Collection of Various Clothing Styles* (1562)
You are never taught how to build quality software
The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet
A History of Link Blogs – Angry Robot
A look at search engines with their own indexes
Your Board of Directors is Probably Going to Fire You
An Ode to Pen & Pixel Album Covers
Against an Increasingly User-Hostile Web - Neustadt.fr
How we’ve enshittified the tech economy
How We Apologize Now - The New York Times
A credible threat to (and from) commercial social network silos/1
Dan McKinley :: Choose Boring Technology
Capitalism is dead: long live Technofeudalism
Weird Twitter: The Symbolic Construction of Community through Iterative Reification
A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden
Communal Bonfires — Open Indie
The Dark Forest and the Cozy Web
How to Take Back Control of What You Read on the Internet
Street Fighter: The Movie — What went wrong
The new rules for how to behave in polite society - New York Magazine
What Kind of Man Was Anthony Bourdain?
What are you willing to do? On the case for civil war
A Brief history of the New Balance 997
A Brief History of Lapel Pins | Metal X
Restaurants Take the Din Out of Dining (Published 2015)
Cult Classic: The History of New Balance’s Made In USA 997
Check back for the next 2023 BlogMix volume!