Illich asked counterfoil research to detect a tool’s harm in its first stages. Where that beginning lies on the road to his second watershed, and why it is so hard to see.

The Greeks worshipped Nemesis as a goddess of equity and equilibrium — the balance of life within limits. Over two thousand years, Nemesis shrank into a word for revenge. Today she returns as a term for the structural, endemic harm of modern institutional and technological overreach: medical systems that make us sick, food systems that malnourish, school systems that obstruct learning, communication tools that confuse and divide people, food systems that malnousrish...

A moka pot, a Turkish pot, a French press, an AeroPress, a drip machine, and an espresso machine: which one can I most easily understand, repair, and replace? And which makes the best brew?

Sudo was a plugin that asked WordPress administrators for their password before they did something dangerous. An AI audit found seven ways around it with an active admin session. That points to a fundamental architectural problem that only WordPress core can address.

Keel adds 39 configurable WordPress defaults, shows their real state in Site Health, and identifies the security patch for your own release line.

Only when a person will not do some things are they capable of doing great things.

The last few weeks have been fantastic for anybody who builds plugins and themes for WordPress. Three tools dropped that, stacked together, cover the whole build and deploy process: spin up a site, build something, ship it to the wp.org directory. No Docker wrangling, no "works on my machine," no SVN tap-dance. 1. WordPress Studio now runs on Linux For years the Studio desktop app was a Mac-and-Windows party.

Paste a DOI or BibTeX entry — get a formatted, auto-sorted bibliography in any of nine academic citation styles.

Over the past 50 years, programming required a fluent coordination of the programmer’s hands and mind. Now they’re being separated again.

Personally I think alt-text is valuable for everyone, not for just people with visual impairments. I read alt-text all the time. I'm curious if my theory that a wide swath of people read alt-text is t...

At least 24 chimpanzees have been killed in a war that has split the Ngogo group of wild chimpanzees in two, turning former kin into enemies.

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Structured identity for RSS, Atom, and JSON Feed. An open specification for author context, perspective, and presence in syndication feeds. - tgodier/byline

Folger Shakespeare Library is the world's largest Shakespeare collection, the ultimate resource for exploring Shakespeare and his world. Shakespeare belongs to you. His world is vast. Come explore. Jo...

How to win the war for the soul of the internet, and build the Web We Want.

Today in InfoSec Job Security News: I was looking into an obvious ../.. vulnerability introduced into a major web framework today, and it was committed by username Claude on GitHub. Vibe coded, basic...

Tech Shadow Work launches in 2026 as a biweekly newsletter. Each issue uses a recent moment in technology or tech policy to examine its shadow, asking what these decisions reveal about societal power ...

Could the flawless digital world take inspiration from the Wabi Sabi philosophy to incorporate imperfection and impermanence into digital designs?

This article presents Gerard Genette's concept of the paratext by defining the term and by describing its characteristics. The use of the concept in other disciplines than literary studies and for oth...