Reading Log ForAugust 25, 2025 (#137)
A fair amount this week. A deeper dive into the achor element, thoughts on PHP & jQuery, Substack is definitely a Nazi bar now, and more.
Web Development
- What We Lost with PHP and jQuery - Ibrahim Diallo
- Sit On Your Ass Web Development - Jim Nielsen
- Why semantic HTML still matters - Jono Alderson
- HTML is Dead, Long Live HTML - Steven Wittens
- This website is for humans - Sophie Koonin
- A Few Things About the Anchor Element’s href You Might Not Have Known - Jim Nielsen
- What we learned from creating PostCSS - Irina Nazarova
General Development
- I Know When You're Vibe Coding - Alex Kondov
The Internet
- Take Back Our Digital Infrastructure To Save Democracy - Mike Masnick
- Substack’s Algorithm Accidentally Reveals What We Already Knew: It’s The Nazi Bar Now - Mike Masnick
- Didn’t Take Long To Reveal The UK’s Online Safety Act Is Exactly The Privacy-Crushing Failure Everyone Warned About - Mike Masnick
AI
- Perplexity Doesn’t Give a Shit About Consent - Robb Knight
- Politico’s Rushed Adoption Of Half-Cooked ‘AI’ Continues To Go Terribly - Karl Bode
Business & Finance
- Buy now, pay later is taking over the world. Good - The Economist
Economics
- How an NYC Suburb Is Actually Managing to Bring Rents Down - Rebecca Picciotto
Podcasts
- Kai Ryssdal: Special Coverage from "Marketplace": The Real Costs
- Planet Money: Buy discount Ozempic here now click this link
Politics
- Another Horror Story Leaks Out From Trump’s Favorite Deportation Hellhole - Tim Cushing
- President Of ‘Facts Don’t Care About Your Feelings’ Party Fires Statistician For Reporting Facts That Hurt His Feelings - Tim Cushing
- Trump FCC Abandons Efforts To Make U.S. Broadband Fast And Affordable - Karl Bode
- The America We Knew Is Rapidly Slipping Away - Thomas L. Friedman
Everything Else
- The Analog Life: 50 Ways to Unplug and Feel Human Again - Tanner Garrity