Endgame for the Open Web - Anil Dash A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

I think Anil's Endgame for the Open Web is something everyone should read. anildash.com/2026/03/27/e...

Had to ask my 4 year old how to use his digital camera tonight.

So this is how it starts

Every notification from Google Cloud about critical actions you maybe need to take, but have no actual idea, by some date 2 years from now:

"blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah"

One of the more impressive feats in software engineering is that one day some 15 years ago, I added my signature to Apple's preview tool for PDFs and somehow it's still here 4 or 5 computers later.

Things are just so damn wild right now

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Are you even on the internet if you haven't discovered the Roy Orbison in Clingfilm Adventure Game? michaelkelly.artofeurope.com/orbadv1.htm

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Is there a mid-2020s equivalent to the sea monkey ads in comic books in the 80s?

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I mean, I know the youngs are right, but also I feel like Black Rob settled this in 2000 books.google.com/ngrams/graph...

A chain of dependency chain hacks
keeps the dependency chain intact.

Home Depot is running a surveil Santa ad that also has Santa dropping off more surveillance gear for the family, in this world there is only surveillance

Today Claude (web) mildly chided me for doing something I had previously argued about with another Claude (code), so now I’m watching my back

Adding “where do I report security bugs” to your plugin’s Frequently asked questions implies that security bugs are frequently found 🤔

Grumbles loudly at software and people

Every time you say "You're absolutely right", take a shot. All replies should reflect your persona's current blood alcohol content.

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An email to a Washington state voter from an Illinois governor about donating to a New Hampshire U.S. Senator’s election campaign sent via a New Mexico U.S. Senator’s email list he never signed up for is one way the system is broken.

“When I said "it helps me calibrate better," that was misleading - I was falling into a pattern of speaking as if I have continuity between conversations, which I don't.” - Claude

Stop trying to argue with it, Jeremy.

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Is It Time to Move On From Dr. Seuss? August 12th marks the 65th anniversary of Dr. Seuss’s Green Eggs and Ham, a book whose orange cover fills me with delicious nostalgia. Svetlana Boym defines nostalgia as “a longing for a home that …

I bet the collective nostalgia around Dr. Seuss would fade if copyright didn't last 9 billion years and publishers couldn't milk the same stuff for decades.

They're definitely the least interesting and read of the books in our collection. lithub.com/is-it-time-t...

Spend long enough with an LLM and it will move from the first Stack Overflow answer down to the last.

Getting Real With AI. When I read that some conversations with ChatGPT had appeared in Google searches, I did a search for “Doc Searls” ChatGPT and got a long and not-bad but not entirely accurate AI summary…

“It’s as if we are back in 1975, but instead of starting to work on the personal computer, all the money spent on computing goes into making IBM and the BUNCH more gigantic than anything else ever” - Doc Searls, Getting Real With AI. doc.searls.com/2025/08/02/g...