Hi, I’m Robert, a web developer & photographer.

Ten years ago, we needed Google Chrome to break the Web free from corporate hegemony, and we managed to do so for a brief period. Today, its dominance is stifling the very platform it once saved from the clutches of Microsoft. And no one, beside Google, needs that.

I'm really sad to see Microsoft switch to Chromium as the basis for their new Edge browser. The web is getting very homogen and that didn’t turn out to be a good idea in the past. Try Firefox for a free web. I use it since a few years and it got…

Carter Sande writes about the current trend to use client-side navigation via JavaScript instead of relying on good old server rendered HTML pages linked via a classic <a> hyperlink.

It’s actually really hard to get it right—loading the new page is simple enough, but you also have to write code to display a loading bar, make the Back and Forward buttons work, show an error page if the connection drops, and so on.

Facebook fishing for our email passwords, Roomba is hovering up all the data on our homes, Amazon is listening to our conversations for laughs, Tik-Tok spying on our kids. And that we see so much dirt on the surface makes it likely that under the surface it’s even worse. The solution for all of this: “Ethics”.

I really enjoy the articles by iA. This one is about the “ethics” the tech industry applies and the difference to ethics.