Web Wanderings (August 2026)

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.

Some things I found whilst wandering the web last month. I love that this web site is hosted in a plastic box in a garden in South East London. The story of how Google helped destroy RSS adoption . Don’t be a meat proxy . There’s still hope for user-first software. I like using AI for coding, for sure, but I don’t want a personal super intelligence that’s owned by Meta thanks. How to photograph a solar eclipse . There’s a big one in Egypt next year. Why is the UK's 5G so bad? Let Buffering Britain explain. Commodore yes, that Commodore are launching an old-school flip phone and it looks amazing . VS Code inside a terminal 🤯 The WilderNet is 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 A wonderful tribute to Dolly 💔 Boketto: The art of doing nothing . “Every day is a thousand attaboys and at least one big oh shit”. Steve Yegge is pushing coding AI at the frontier and it’s fascinating. What are smartphone cameras doing to our souls ?