worth reading: ???-january 18, 2024

(happy very belated new year! featuring some extra links because I fell into the time vortex of November and December)

two great pieces from The Verge on SEO optimization:

“The people who ruined the internet” by Amanda Chicago Lewis
“The Perfect Webpage” by Mia Sato and Richard Parry

everything else:

“A Coder Considers the Waning Days of the Craft” by James Somers
“The Last Lighthouse Keeper in America” by Dorothy Wickenden
"Wolf Spiders, Actually, Are All Around” by Sabrina Imbler
“What killed the fight scene? And is it finally coming back?” by Ryan Broderick
“Invisible Ink: At the CIA’s Creative Writing Group” by Johannes Lichtman