December 2021

2021 has been a crazy year, as I’m sure you’ll all agree. Things got weird on the tech front too, with the crypto market going nuts, Facebook rebranding to Meta, and more. Check out my annual summary of tech news below… Notes from the Present 📱 Top 5 Internet Technology Stories of 2021 My second-to-last…

For my column this week, I did my annual review of the top internet technologies of the year. I’ve been doing this every December, in one shape or form, since 2004. I miss the ReadWriteWeb days, as I used to love doing annual roundup stories — and in its heyday, each RWW writer had their…

This week’s newsletter is all about the metaverse, a buzzword that Facebook (now known as Meta) introduced to the mainstream at the end of October. I’m tracking this trend closely, so here are some of my recent notes 👇 Notes from the Present 📱 What is Meta Building? My column at The New Stack this…

Over 2021, I’ve had two parallel writing projects on the go. One, a weekly column tracking the latest trends in web development, published on The New Stack (where I work). Two, an indie website called Web Development History (WDH), where I write 1-2 articles per month chronicling internet history from a developer perspective. So, I…