{"slug": "web-wanderings-august-2026", "title": "Web Wanderings (August 2026)", "summary": "A personal blog roundup for August 2026 highlights the decline of RSS adoption, attributing it to Google's actions, and features commentary on AI coding tools, including a critique of Meta-owned personal superintelligence and Steve Yegge's frontier coding AI work. The post also covers topics such as UK 5G issues, a Commodore flip phone launch, and smartphone camera effects on well-being.", "body_md": "Some things I found whilst wandering the web last month.\nI love that\nthis web site\nis hosted in a plastic box in a garden in South East London.\nThe story of\nhow Google helped destroy RSS adoption\n.\nDon’t be a\nmeat proxy\n.\nThere’s still hope\nfor user-first software.\nI like using AI for coding, for sure, but I don’t want\na personal super intelligence that’s owned by Meta\nthanks.\nHow to photograph a solar eclipse\n. There’s\na big one in Egypt\nnext year.\nWhy is the UK's 5G so bad? Let\nBuffering Britain\nexplain.\nCommodore (yes,\nthat\nCommodore) are launching an old-school flip phone and\nit looks amazing\n.\nVS Code inside a terminal\n🤯\nThe WilderNet\nis a site for sharing and discovering independent writing from around the web. Might be worth adding your blog, this blog, or other Pagecord blogs if you're keen!\nA wonderful\ntribute to Dolly\n💔\nBoketto: The art of doing nothing\n.\n“Every day is a thousand attaboys and at least one big oh shit”.\nSteve Yegge is pushing coding AI at the frontier\nand it’s fascinating.\nWhat are smartphone cameras doing to our souls\n?", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/web-wanderings-august-2026", "canonical_source": "https://olly.world/web-wanderings-august-2026", "published_at": "2026-09-01 10:50:19+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-01 10:53:31.409876+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-products", "ai-research"], "entities": ["Google", "Meta", "Commodore", "Steve Yegge", "Pagecord", "WilderNet"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/web-wanderings-august-2026", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/web-wanderings-august-2026.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/web-wanderings-august-2026.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/web-wanderings-august-2026.jsonld"}}