Why Generation X will save the web
Politicians want to regulate the internet as if a handful of companies are the open web. Why? Because for their young policy staffers, that's the only web they've ever known.
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Because everyone is entitled to my opinion.
The world’s most dangerous tech project
It might be yours.
How to create a world as age appropriate as apple pie
One of the many problems I have with the UK government’s determination to build an “age appropriate” internet that will be the “safest place in the world to be online” is that this goal is entirely subjective and inachievable. It attempts to create internet regulation through undefined emotive rhetoric. A tweet conversation this morning has spurred me to pour a cup of tea and share this story about what happens when “age appropriate” is allowed […]
One perfect shot
Only a fellow Glaswegian could have composed this photo.
Conference talk: WordPress’s role in a changing web
I delivered this talk at WordCamp Vienna 2020. Entitled "WordPress's role in a changing web", I wanted to explain how fragile the open web is becoming, share a case study in how to keep it open, and spell out why the time for the WordPress project to act is now.
About that WordPress autoupdates thing.
There was a call for comments ahead of this weekend’s scheduled panel discussion at WCUS on the autoupdates plan. I’ve been asked to respond to it from my perspective, so I will.