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  Lovable is branching out from AI-powered web app creation and into MCP-powered ‘capabilities’. I talk to CTO Fabian Hedin about why agents are the future of SaaS and how Lovable built an architecture for a "company brain." https://www.latent.space/p/lovable-future-of-saas

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  I watched a generic YouTuber today, a handsome guy with all the right YouTuber moves and the right mic and the usual camera tics and jumpcuts…and it was fine, the content was relevant to my work. He had 700k followers, looked good on camera, said the right things, was useful info. But he didn’t have 1% of the personality of @zeldman’s website in 2006. That’s why I miss the open web and the blogging scene back then. https://indieweb.social/@classicweb/117163819328652793

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  GitHub invented pull requests, and for 18 years they've been open by default. But now some of the top AI-native open source projects are shutting PRs off, because they've found a better way. https://www.latent.space/p/pr-not-welcome

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  Columns, underrated! Once mobile took over, I began missing this design pattern. Also it’s a traditional part of media publishing (ref newspapers, magazines). So it felt like a break from that. Oh well, back to our AI chat apps… https://indieweb.social/@classicweb/117202511891496718

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  Another lovely columns design https://indieweb.social/@classicweb/117198736719338131

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  When links ruled the web (great times) https://indieweb.social/@classicweb/117244035315256578

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  So much of this happening right now. Shame on Google for not punishing these companies! Great job Maggie and Futurism for lifting the rock on these critters. https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/brown-brothers-media-ai-slop-empire

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  The state of the web in 2026. Saw this on LinkedIn and it does, unfortunately, sum up Google search right now.

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  The Webpad from 2000, a concept from the Nokia Design Archive. https://repo.aalto.fi/uncategorized/IO_b81c4b91-a275-40b5-9b0b-79e50e55f92a/ (via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49828385)

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  One big difference: it now uses Flash emulator software Ruffle to run the videos (Flash was discontinued at the end of 2020 and is not supported in modern browsers). https://cybercultural.com/p/internet-2000/ https://mastodon.archive.org/@internetarchive/117328502341028006

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  RE: https://indieweb.social/@classicweb/117406072264248619 I must admit, my alt is more active here than I am these days. tbh running @classicweb is one of the few social media things that still gives me pleasure! But if you are a follower of this a/c, here's a chance for you to make some suggestions.

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  Remember when you could express your online personality even on Twitter? And I have to give Maria props, she has stayed true to her personal brand all along. https://indieweb.social/@classicweb/117480200899523546

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  Foursquare was such a fun app back in the day. I really think a big missing ingredient in social media these days is FUN (I hate to say it, but on Mastodon in particular). Let’s bring back the Foursquare vibe, when you can make up silly raps and call yourself the mayor of a cafe. https://cybercultural.com/p/foursquare-raps-by-the-go-bang-mayor/ https://xoxo.zone/@waxy/117479445030719810

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  Here’s my ‘My 9 albums’ list, in chronological order of influence. Hard to narrow down to just 9, of course, and yes I do realize it’s male-heavy other than Lana. But it is what it is, that’s the music that has most impacted me over the years. #my9albums https://www.my9albums.com/s/ltosK7LOVh

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  Inspiring! Also, something for the future curator of @classicweb to post ;) https://cosocial.ca/@daveshea/117509103721736583

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  I was deeply saddened to hear of the passing of @jared this month, from complications after heart surgery, at age 42. Jared was webmaster at ReadWriteWeb during its glory days; he was a much loved member of our team and a beautiful soul. This is one of my favourite photos of him during that time, at our New York event in 2011. RIP Jared, gone way too soon 😢 😢 😢 https://www.yahoo.com/news/weather-news/articles/jared-smith-founder-chswx-weather-144500196.html

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  Some of you old webheads might enjoy my latest post on Latent Space. It turns out the Semantic Web is alive and well, in the form of ontologies being used to keep LLMs honest. https://www.latent.space/p/ontologies-agentic-systems

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  My personal reflections on a hectic and inspiring week in San Francisco, covering the AI Engineer World's Fair. https://agenticweb.news/ai-engineer-worlds-fair/

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  RIP Sam Neill, one of New Zealand’s finest. https://youtu.be/ScAktnImPbQ?si=NOVvMekDSu68lPBL

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  Simon Reynolds, one of my favourite authors, on blogging in the 2000s. He still blogs to this day, unusually running multiple Blogspot sites, one for each book and/or genre he writes about. I subscribe to all of them in my Feedbin / NetNewsWire setup, and dip in from time to time. Also some other music bloggers, especially of the esoteric variety. Alas, tech bloggers aren’t as active these days…or as interesting, tbh. I like that early 2000s energy of the mp3 bloggers.

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  RE: https://indieweb.social/@classicweb/116929145754944569 My @classicweb bot is up and running again. Per below, I've been rather distracted with real-life priorities in recent months, but I spent some time with Codex yesterday and today in order to make the bot far more automated. Now it just needs approvals from me once per day, so will post on a regular cadence once more.

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  Today's my first day in a new role: Head of Editorial at Latent Space. From ReadWriteWeb to The New Stack, I've always loved being at the cutting edge of tech x media. So I'm thrilled to join swyx & his team! p.s. given that AI tech talk typically gets a hostile reception on the fediverse, I likely won't post about my work much here. But if you are interested in these topics, I encourage you to subscribe to my articles: https://www.latent.space/

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  This week's Agentic Web News covers the rise of the agentic web as a concept, browsers integrated into the agentic tools of OpenAI and Anthropic, real momentum for the WebMCP protocol, plus further agentic commerce and web development news. https://agenticweb.news/browsers-in-agents-webmcp-momentum/ #AgenticWeb

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  Tim Berners-Lee at a book event. I like his framing of how online advertising pre-Facebook dominance was actually a good thing for the web. Eg it allowed me to employ >20 people in my blogging business, & it wasn’t invading anyone’s privacy. “In the beginning, he said “it wasn’t all bad”, describing how bloggers could have adverts on the sides of their posts and could make some earnings from their work. This was before the advent of targeted ads and marketing, he said.” https://...

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  Well said. “…the web is not a collection of technologies like HTML, CSS and JavaScript. The web is a philosophical choice to build a system that puts humans as its core constituency. The platform of technologies designed with that philosophy in mind may include AI-related systems. But if they are going to be part of the web, then they must be designed to put humans first.” https://mastodon.social/@torgo/116782804517736182

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  Agentrification, Promptotype, Wrapplication: New Words for Work https://aboard.com/more-new-words-for-new-work/ (by @ftrain)

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  My latest newsletter -> This week's market signals suggest the conversation is moving beyond AI models and toward enterprise infrastructure. AWS + Adobe are using MCP to connect enterprise agents, Vercel has launched its eve framework, Okta has published an agent identity roadmap, and Google has proposed an open discovery layer. Together they point to the emergence of an enterprise agent stack. https://agenticweb.news/agent-stack-becomes-enterprise-infrastructure/ #AgenticWeb

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  I will say this about the fediverse: it’s not the kind of place where a company or someone still working there will post “We’re expanding and hiring!” just a few months after it laid off 75% of its staff. Small mercies.

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  Very sad to hear of the passing of Om Malik (@Onmyom), one of the OG tech bloggers. Our blogs worked together at the Crunchies in 2007 (https://cybercultural.com/p/026-rww-redesign-2007-crunchies/) and earlier that year I'd met up with him at a local SF cafe (https://cybercultural.com/p/024-readwriteweb-key-hire-hustle-culture/). Even though we were jostling for position on the Technorati charts at the time, he was the nicest, wisest, most generous with his advice person in Silicon Valle...

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  "Hey...let's be careful out there." Prompted by the immortal words of Sgt. Phil Esterhaus on Hill Street Blues, I look at two lessons from RunSignup’s careful AI rollout: 1. Embed AI where users already work. 2. Move fast — but safely. I also reflect on some of the negative feedback about agentic AI this week — including continued layoffs in our industry and a lack of user trust in AI. https://ricmac.org/2026/05/29/agentic-ai-business-lessons/ #AI #AgenticWeb