Blogosphere on D'Arcy Norman, PhD

Building my own custom standalone comments app

dnorman@me.com (D'Arcy Norman) — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 14:23:14 -0600

Surely, one day, eventually, I will write a blog post that isn’t about vibecoding some bauble into existence and actually get back to something deeper. I think learning how vibecoding (and coaxing some form of LLM to do stuff in general) is an important thing to understand, not just read about. I’m absolutely not an AI Evangelist, but this work has changed my perception of LLMs and agentic tools as they (rapidly, so rapidly) increase in capacity. This is not that day.

Anil Dash - The lost infrastructure of social media

dnorman@me.com (D'Arcy Norman) — Thu, 11 Aug 2016 15:14:26 +0000

A great summary of various bits of tech that made the early blogosphere¹ so alive and vibrant in ways that hasn’t been captured or reproduced since. How can tools give individuals control over what they create, where they publish, who they follow, what they read, and how they share? These are currently controlled almost exclusively by one of two companies for the majority people on the modern internet. Something amazing, powerful, and enabling was lost in that transition.