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A personal space on media technology, web development, and product design — combining opinion, speculation, and practical exploration

  1. 12/19/2017 Front Matters

    Is ZEIT a Lighthouse in Our Web Development Dark Age?

    Exploring ZEIT's Next.js and Now, this post argues that they could be the much-needed blueprints for modern JavaScript development, offering simplicity and efficiency in a landscape overwhelmed by complexity.

    • WebDevelopment
    • JavaScript
    • Next.js
    • Vercel
    • Opinion
  2. 12/20/2016 Trailing Slashes

    Two Years of Iperstudio

    Reflecting on two years of Iperstudio, this post explores a journey of radical ideas and collaborative innovation. It highlights how embracing professional mutualism and redesigning digital spaces led to breakthrough challenges and creative solutions in web design and development.

    • Architecture
    • WorkLifeBalance
    • Collaboration
    • WebDesign
  3. 9/4/2016 Design Cuts

    Mario, A Content Management Friend

    Mario is a headless CMS with a conversational UI, designed to separate content management from delivery. It aims to provide a simple yet powerful way to manage content across various platforms while maintaining a focus on user experience.

    • ContentManagement
    • Fictional
    • HeadlessCMS
    • ConversationalUI
    • WebDevelopment
  4. 3/21/2016 Trailing Slashes

    Mapnaut, Connecting Twitter to Places

    Mapnaut transforms Twitter into a spatial experience. By turning tweets into 'placemarks' and aligning them along a unique 'spaceline,' it reimagines social interaction as a journey through geographic moments.

    • X
    • Maps
    • UserExperience
    • Geolocation
  5. 1/12/2016 Front Matters

    Web Design Isn’t Broken, Yet

    Web Designers face a complex landscape of legacy technologies, but new scenarios like Calypso and headless CMSs could reshape the future of web design.

    • WebDevelopment
    • ContentManagement
    • WordPress
    • HeadlessCMS
    • Opinion
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Axios Media Trends

A reliable pulse on the structural shifts happening across the media industry — M&A moves, platform changes, audience trends. Short and signal-dense, which makes it easy to keep up without the noise.

Digiday

Solid trade coverage of the advertising and media space. Not always groundbreaking, but consistently tracks where the industry's money and attention are moving.

Nieman Lab

Journalism industry analysis with real academic rigor. The annual Predictions for Journalism is worth reading in full every year — a useful calibration on where the industry thinks it's heading.

Stratechery

The sharpest long-form analysis on how technology reshapes media and platform economics. Thompson's Aggregation Theory alone is worth the subscription — it reframes how you think about digital publishing, distribution, and power.

The Information

Paywalled, premium, and worth it. Deep reporting on the technology business that goes beyond press releases — the kind of structural investigations that shape how you think about the industry.

The Platformer

The most consistent, well-sourced reporting on how social platforms operate, fail, and evolve. Essential reading for understanding how content distribution actually works in practice.

The Rebooting

The most grounded, honest writing on what it actually takes to build a media business today. Practical, unsentimental, and often contrarian in good ways.

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