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Relative movement

One of the common criticisms I heard for my “space to time” post is that of course both time and space are dual and there’s no point in considering one without the other. This is very true! I also want to highlight that even though they’re dual we are actually quite bad at combining dimensions…

Searching is for the past

It’s probably obvious to everyone, but when we perform online searches, we’re looking at the past.

Published in the past

This is probably the most obvious factor: for search engines to display results, they have to…

The Curse

The best strategy to escape the earth’s gravity is not to go upward in its opposing…

The shrinking RSS pie

We all know that RSS and openness are key to the web’s resilience and independence, yet the RSS ecosystem is still shrinking. It’s because of us, players of that ecosystem: we tend…