Look, Another AI Browser

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Yesterday, OpenAI announced Atlas, its AI browser. To the surprise of literally nobody, it’s Chromium with AI slapped on top. Perplexity also has a browser: it’s called Comet, and it also is Chromium with AI slapped on top. Then we have DIA, which is, you guessed it, Chromium with AI slapped on top. I think Opera also has one of those Chromium browsers with AI slapped on top.

I code sites for a living (allegedly), and I honestly cannot overstate how uninterested I am in all these new browsers. Because these are not new browsers: these are Chromium frames with AI slapped on top.

The thing I found more interesting about the whole OpenAI announcement was Sam Altman tweeting: «10 am livestream today to launch a new product I'm quite excited about!». This is coming from someone who’s allegedly running a company that’s building a tool that should usher in a new era where computers will replace most of human work, where we’ll all have a super intelligence always available in our pockets, ready to dispense infinite wisdom.

And yet he’s quite excited about a fucking Chromium installation with AI slapped on top of it. I guess building an actual browser, from scratch, is still a task so monumentally difficult that even a company that is aiming for super-intelligence can’t tackle it.

October's Thoughts and Interviews

Look, another AI browser


22nd

10 pointless facts about me


21st

A newsletter-related PSA


20th

Five least favourite tech topics


18th

AliceInterview


17th

From the Summit 2.0


17th

On concrete examples


16th

Linda MaInterview


10th

My issue with the two sides


10th

Safari and iOS 26: PSA and a rant


8th

On public online behaviour


5th

Blake WatsonInterview


3rd

Making things obvious


1st

2025 September

New site, kinda


30th

Scoring books


27th

Kris HowardInterview


26th

Digital fatigue


25th

Robert BirmingInterview


19th

RIP my minimal phone setup


16th

Two quick news items


12th

Jack BatyInterview


12th

On em dashes


10th

Blogs don’t need to be so lonely


6th

I guess they did not, in fact, make it


5th

Louie MantiaInterview


5th

On my August challenge


2nd

August

CourtneyInterview


29th

You will not believe what I just wrote


25th

Tom CritchlowInterview


22nd

AI this, AI that


17th

Loren StephensInterview


15th

First update on the August challenge


10th

AlexandraInterview


8th

Sticking with it


7th

Emma GotoInterview


1st

July

August Challenge


30th

The July experiment: week four


28th

On books and assumptions


26th

Marisabel MunozInterview


25th

Why this matters


25th

The July experiment: week three


21st

Alex SiracInterview


18th

On using Apple products


17th

RSS feeds


16th

The July experiment: week two


14th

BSAGInterview


11th

The July experiment: week one


7th

A gift to myself


6th

Rewiring the brain


5th

Nick SimsonInterview


4th

Random mid-year update


2nd

June

IndieWeb Carnival: Take Two


30th

Experimental June: week four


29th

On complaining


28th

David WertheimerInterview


27th

Minimal New Page


25th

Experimental June: week three


23rd

Dave RupertInterview


20th

Digital chains


19th

On corpses, selfishness, and ownership


16th

Experimental June: week two


15th

James A. ReevesInterview


13th

A moment on the fields


8th

Experimental June: week one


8th

Non-negotiables


7th

BenjiInterview


6th

A moment with climbers


6th

May

Sebastián MoníaInterview


30th

On Browsers, AI, and the web


29th

Experimental June


27th

The web != the web


24th

Seth WerkheiserInterview


23rd

A moment with a pizza


19th

Celebrating kindness


17th

Watts MartinInterview


16th

Web Accessibility. A follow-up.


15th

Your license is a scam


14th

Web Accessibility. Help needed.


13th

Sharing, helping, connecting


11th

AnhInterview


9th

A moment with waves


6th

Labeling the mind


5th

A moment with concrete


4th

A thought on AI and creativity


3rd

Alexandra Deschamps-SonsinoInterview


2nd

Tomorrow


1st

April

IndieWeb Carnival: Renewal


30th

FrillsInterview


25th

Fixing the mind


25th

Jeremy KeithInterview


18th

When a side project finds you


12th

JeddaInterview


11th

A moment with long shadows


6th

Matt WebbInterview


4th

Online counterculture


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March

MayaInterview


28th

Ko-Fi Wishlist


27th

The cost of getting too big


26th

Ben BorgersInterview


21st

A moment with snow and trees


15th

KeenanInterview


14th

How personal should a personal site be?


7th

JamesInterview


7th

A moment with someone flying to the moon


5th

February

Marco GiancottiInterview


28th

Audience of one


28th

The cost of doing the right thing


27th

Ben WerdmullerInterview


21st

Ephemeral content


20th

Confidently incorrect


18th

Max KapurInterview


14th

Context


8th

Lou PlummerInterview


7th

Identity


6th

January

Donny TruongInterview


31st

A moment after the rain


28th

Sharing “Unplatform”


27th

A better list of blog platforms


26th

Tiny corners


25th

AvaInterview


24th

Modern discourse


23rd

Awful people are everywhere


22nd

Ugh, I’ll have to make myself a portfolio again


22nd

Photography


20th

Shenanigans


19th

Short Long Form


18th

Annie MuellerInterview


17th

The internet is now five websites


16th

On Meta’s moderation changes


15th

IndieWeb Carnival: On the importance of friction


14th

Bloggers at the right time


13th

Toscana


12th

A moment of relaxation


11th

Steven GarrityInterview


10th

A moment amongst the trees


10th

A moment in a back alley


9th

A moment with the two towers


8th

A moment with some leftover Christmas spirit


7th

Blogging: you’re doing it right


6th

Blog Questions Challenge


5th

On Spotify


4th

Pauline P. NarvasInterview


3rd

Just because you can doesn’t mean you should


2nd

Twenty Twenty-Five, codename “Output”


1st

2024 December

Was 2024 a good year?


31st

A solved Bluesky conundrum


31st

The Bluesky conundrum


30th

Kindness in a transactional world


29th

Jatan MehtaInterview


27th

A moment on my favorite bench


27th

On featured images in blog posts


26th

Meta blog post


24th

ZinzyInterview


20th

On asking


16th

Moonlight


15th

Sunday update


15th

Chris DeLucaInterview


13th

Digital responsibilities


12th

Topic blockers


9th

Erica FusteroInterview


6th

Life on pause


6th

The correct amount of ads is zero


5th

On blogging, substacking (?), and owning digital real estate


4th

Personal philosophy


1st

November

Lucy BellwoodInterview


29th

On Bluesky


22nd

EmInterview


22nd

Media diet


21st

An appreciation of the “mark all as read” button


16th

Small scale is the best scale


15th

Sara JakšaInterview


15th

Housekeeping


14th

A moment of natural therapy


11th

Dalton MaberyInterview


8th

Regaining focus


7th

An afternoon of early November


6th

Westley WinksInterview


1st

October

A moment in yet another Airbnb


31st

Denny HenkeInterview


25th

Constraints in video games


18th

Steyn ViljoenInterview


18th

Creation and Curation


14th

Chris O'DonnellInterview


11th

A Ko-Fi PSA


5th

Xanthe TynehorneInterview


4th

A moment with morning light in the kitchen


3rd

IndieWeb Carnival: multilingualism in a global Web


2nd

On personal websites and social web


1st

September

Justin DukeInterview


27th

Internet commentary


26th

It should be easy to say “My bad, I was wrong”


24th

Giles TurnbullInterview


20th

Thoughts on the new iOS control centre


19th

Discovering new blogs is stupid hard


16th

Naz HamidInterview


13th

The EU vs US iPhone debate


9th

Steve LedlowInterview


6th

IndieWeb Carnival: Power Underneath Despair


5th

On People and Blogs and courtesy


5th

The internet used to be great


3rd

The social web


1st

August

Marty DayInterview


30th

On email addresses (again)


29th

My software stack is old


28th

Yelling at the web clouds


27th

Thoughts on symbols


24th

Robert KingettInterview


24th

On the value of context


20th

On hobbies, side projects, and money


17th

PloumInterview


16th

IndieWeb Carnival: Rituals


13th

Fifty shades of people and their blogs


11th

Georgie CookeInterview


9th

Digital nudges


7th

The “blowing smoke up your ass” theory of AI


3rd

Anne SturdivantInterview


2nd

July

Thoughts on politics and communities


29th

A moment among the trees


26th

Daniel MillerInterview


26th

On goals, online projects, and the usefulness of money


24th

Mismatch


22nd

Thoughts on digital communities


21st

Luke HarrisInterview


19th

Should you give up social media?


18th

One hundred


14th

Andrew StephensInterview


12th

A moment walking towards the sunset


9th

Some more thoughts on TBC


9th

A moment with my 35th bday


6th

Anton PodviaznikovInterview


5th

A moment of morning light


5th

Shared reality


2nd

On being humble and accepting success


1st

June

The Mimo Diaries: Feedback and Directory


30th

Everything is freeware


29th

Alison WilderInterview


28th

Ads hypocrisy


27th

Fighting bots


23rd

A moment of blissful relaxation


22nd

Jennifer Devastatia del GatoInterview


21st

On “What Money Can’t Buy”


19th

Blocking bots


16th

Jessica NickelsenInterview


14th

Celebrating failure


12th

The money conundrum


11th

JF MartinInterview


7th

How to converse online


6th

They might not make it


3rd

Slashes


1st

May

Matthew GrayboschInterview


31st

AI and the English language


30th

Bearblog is fun


29th

Consumption-to-creation ratio


28th

Rebecca TohInterview


24th

A moment with a birthday good boy


23rd

My blogging workflow


21st

A moment of daily practice


20th

A moment with a choice


19th

A moment from a misty morning


18th

Om MalikInterview


17th

Curation, search, and the future of the web


15th

It’s fun to do silly things


14th

A comment on the Apple iPad ad controversy


12th

Sharing too much about too little


11th

Riccardo MoriInterview


10th

The webs


9th

On guestbooks


8th

The kitchen s(l)ink post


5th

Cory DransfeldtInterview


3rd

IndieWeb Carnival: Natural creativity


2nd

April

The web is not dying


27th

VeroniqueInterview


26th

Too little, and too much, self-promotion


25th

Re: Growth is a mind cancer


24th

Simone SilvestroniInterview


19th

A comment on comments


16th

Tracy DurnellInterview


12th

On video podcasts


10th

Matt SteinInterview


5th

IndieWeb Carnival: Good enough and the search for perfection


2nd

Pay per scroll


1st

March

Why I write


31st

Adrianna TanInterview


29th

Writing about writing


25th

Growth is a mind cancer


23rd

Taylor TroeshInterview


22nd

Why I don’t write dev posts


21st

A moment with a bunch of fun sheep


20th

From ink to pixel to ink


19th

Sara JoyInterview


15th

A moment with a sunset


14th

Housekeeping


12th

Digital walled gardens


9th

Brad BarrishInterview


8th

Guestbooks are cool


7th

It’s Time to Give Up on Everything but Email


5th

IndieWeb Carnival: Accessibility in the Small Web


4th

IndieWeb Carnival: Roundup


3rd

Cassidy WilliamsInterview


1st

February

Chris Coyier smells like donkeys


29th

On POSSE


27th

IndieWeb Carnival: February is almost at the end


26th

I have a new* website


25th

Society and technology


24th

Herman MartinusInterview


23rd

On dreams and goals


18th

Peter RukavinaInterview


16th

Ai and Robots


14th

On climbing and design


13th

Housekeeping


12th

Phil GyfordInterview


9th

The great list of all the blog platforms


8th

A rant on ARC Search


7th

Routines


5th

The Mimo Diaries: Streams and Menus


3rd

Winnie LimInterview


2nd

On digital relationships


1st

January

IndieWeb Carnival: Digital Relationships


31st

Best laptop of 2024


30th

A People and Blogs PSA


27th

Ran PrieurInterview


26th

Positive Internalization


25th

Private conversations in public


22nd

Tom MacWrightInterview


19th

Indieweb Carnival


18th

If a human does it


16th

On enjoying the process


14th

Rachel SmithInterview


12th

The Mimo Diaries


10th

A moment with a great book


6th

Arun VenkatesanInterview


5th

Answers to my analytics inquiry


3rd

Create more. Consume less.


2nd

Yet another year of living without


1st

2023 December

Analytics inquiry


30th

Derek SiversInterview


29th

Reflecting on learned things


27th

A moment up high on a lake


26th

Chris ButlerInterview


22nd

Pirating social media


16th

Jamie ThingelstadInterview


15th

I’m taking over Minimalissimo…for real this time


14th

Eli MellenInterview


8th

The personality of a personal website


7th

One a Month


6th

More new mindsets, fewer new technologies


2nd

Nicolas MagandInterview


1st

November

Housekeeping


28th

Human connection


27th

Robin RendleInterview


24th

On creating beautiful things


22nd

On Ad Blockers


20th

Chris CoyierInterview


17th

Conversation enders


15th

App Defaults


11th

Piper HaywoodInterview


10th

The beauty of broken things


5th

Jamie CrismanInterview


3rd

On subscriptions


1st

October

Why I'll never do podcasts


28th

Ray ThomasInterview


27th

A moment with a hardware bug


25th

Jim NielsenInterview


20th

Shoes dilemma


15th

Ana RodriguesInterview


13th

How to make a blog


12th

Internet culture outsider


7th

Andrea ContinoInterview


6th

My issue with the modern NBA


4th

September

Toby ShorinInterview


29th

Bots, Spiders, and Crawlers: The Results


27th

Brian KoberleinInterview


22nd

Bots, Spiders, and Crawlers


20th

Housekeeping


19th

I don't want your data


18th

Kev QuirkInterview


15th

A moment up on the mountains


11th

Rachel J. KwonInterview


8th

Use a custom domain name


7th

Website flexibility


6th

Places on the web


2nd

Manton ReeceInterview


1st

August

Housekeeping


25th

People and Blogs


17th

A moment on the 2nd biggest lake


15th

Self-promotion


5th

Who is to blame?


2nd

Unscalable businesses


1st

July

My three rules for online interactions


31st

The web I want


25th

Carl has a new blog


23rd

Who are you writing for?


19th

Links


14th

I am not a writer


9th

A moment with some proper mountains


8th

On the state of the web


2nd

June

A moment with things not going as planned


30th

Clients and budgets


28th

AI will not replace you


16th

A moment with a cloudy sky


13th

Small communities are the best communities


1st

May

A moment thinking about decisions


28th

Answering machines


26th

I'm taking over Minimalissimo…


22nd

Spotify and the bullshit podcast ads situation


18th

Focus


14th

Poking around my server logs


10th

Financial transparency


9th

Digital simplicity


6th

My verified online presence


5th

April

A moment with my crazy dog


28th

Usernames roulette


26th

Criticising is the easy part


21st

I hate internal linking


19th

Incentives and motivations


13th

A note on Substack


12th

Writing about writing


10th

10000 URLs


9th

Let people contact you


6th

RSS excerpts


5th

March

Sysadmin


28th

Verified human


24th

Writing voice and beginner’s mind


22nd

Bandwidth consumption


20th

Thoughts on an unpolished note


18th

A personal blog doesn't need a homepage


17th

A rant on web font licenses


10th

Minimum viable blog


9th

Monetising online content


7th

I'll read it


4th

Website complexities


2nd

A moment on yet another lake


1st

February

Human curation


16th

How much is a friendship worth?


14th

A moment with a not-so-distant past


13th

Good enough


9th

Consumismo ed integrità morale


8th

Great software is timeless


5th

January

A moment with sand and waves


30th

A less artificial future


27th

Shared understanding


23rd

Unsolicited blogging advice


17th

A moment in Italy's green heart


14th

Quitting


7th

RSS feeds for everyone


6th

Money is one of the reasons why today's internet fucking sucks


5th

A moment of sleepiness


2nd

2022 December

How to start a successful blog in 2023


26th

End of year book review


21st

Free speech absolutism vs the real world


19th

Quirky search engine


18th

On the current decentralisation movement


16th

To the moon


13th

Another year of living without


11th

On public email addresses


7th

How to consume the news


4th

A quick word on scrolljacking and new tab fuckery


1st

November

A moment with real and fake birds


21st

On internet silos


8th

A moment of clouds and light


4th

Letting go


1st

October

On the struggles of the mind


30th

My attempt to answer the question "What is too minimal?"


21st

A moment of sunlight after the rain


3rd

September

Who owns a conversation?


30th

Selfishness


14th

The web is failing us


12th

A moment of urban patience


11th

#Shorts


9th

UHX


8th

August

Passionless Web


16th

A moment contemplating the mountains


13th

Selflessness


9th

On becoming a better designer


8th

Loneliness


7th

July

A few thoughts on RSS


28th

A moment of glowing light


27th

Algorithmic nonsense


26th

Production Values


24th

June

What is worth filling your mind with?


29th

May

Portfolio, Projects and Posts


11th

Links and webrings


5th

A moment reflecting on the past


2nd

April

Communities and free speech


27th

On Web 3.0, capitalism and money


11th

Honest Design


6th

February

Spectrums


18th

On owning your content, complexity, platforms, elitism and a bunch of other related topics


16th

Endless everything


6th

January

A moment on the lake


10th

The new year’s post


1st

2021 November

On finding reasons


22nd

On life


4th

October

Humans and tech companies


25th

A somewhat depressing realisation


20th

The creativity ark


17th

Phones and Social Media


10th

Thoughts on social media


6th

September

On Words and Definitions


29th

Six Seven Eight


27th

Crunching some numbers


25th

Can I ask you a favour?


20th

On September the 19th


19th

Social media and social groups


17th

Social platforms


11th

On the indie web... again


6th

Thoughts on UX


4th

August

On the indie web


30th

Thoughts on communities


25th

Sharing rules


21st

Mistakes and doubts


20th

On audience capture and fast food content


10th

10 years


5th

An update on side projects


4th

July

A moment with old and new


19th

On photographs


14th

Adoption Sponsorships


5th

On discovery and consumption


2nd

June

The internet is not broken. People are.


30th

Sharing is caring


28th

On reading books


26th

Motivations


20th

Online Conversations


8th

Asynchronous conversations


6th

May

What even is a website anyway?


27th

Scaling Up Kindness


21st

What I learned by being #1 on PH and reaching HN front page


20th

The shape of digital interactions


17th

A moment of solitude on the mountains


12th

Should I care about this?


4th

April

Something about the evolution of the web


21st

March

Inspiration overload


23rd

Greed is ruining the web


21st

My love/hate relationship with the web


19th

February

A moment with sun and hot tea


19th

Responsibilities


2nd

January

The curse of the perfect tool


22nd

Thoughts on newsletters


20th

2020 December

We wrote a little something


24th

November

On November the 18th


18th

Since Google asked...


17th

Containers


15th

On monetary support


4th

A moment with mountains and clouds


1st

October

A moment on the trenches


31st

Let's play the internet game


31st

Not a success story


30th

A moment with my brother


29th

A moment on the border


25th

September

Words


15th

A moment on the mountains


13th

A moment with myself up on the mountains


13th

Blogrolls and Links


10th

A moment with a clear sky and a sunset


8th

Manufactured Authenticity


7th

August

Self reflection


14th

On August the 9th


9th

July

Friends' Projects


29th

On July the 27th


27th

On side projects, money, motivations and human connections


17th

Welcome to Manu's website


14th

My internet has no comments


12th

How to start a blog


5th

June

Domain Squatters


30th

On Value


29th

The reachability illusion


17th

On Web Responsibilities


15th

On Random Interactions: Part Two


12th

A quick update on browsers


11th

May

On Random Interactions


20th

On Clutter, Noise, Abundance and Less


18th

On Websites


8th

The May Update


4th

April

On burning out, breaking the law, disappearing and cabin fever


22nd

My new portfolio


6th

March

Stories


29th

Bits and Bytes of Humanity


25th

Subscriptions


9th

For the people who are listening...


5th

February

Meandering Rivers


24th

Web Responsibilities


20th

Smallness


17th

My weird phone setup, two years later


14th

Why I hate money


13th

A moment on a familiar peak


5th

Workspace


3rd

Kind Words


2nd

January

Discoverability


26th

Simple solutions


19th

Faceless relationships


10th

I don't know how to browse the internet anymore


4th

Moments In Time


1st

2019 December

Fashion time


31st

Here we go again


17th

November

Trust


24th

Closing thoughts: Living a simple life is not easy


22nd

Chapter 5: Objects are not everything


20th

Chapter 4: Digital and Physical


19th

Chapter 3: Function over Form


18th

Chapter 2: Design doesn't matter


14th

Chapter 1: The Mindset


13th

Introduction: What Minimalism is and is not


12th

Manu's guide to minimalism


9th

October

Cento


31st

Knowing yourself


22nd

Confidence


20th

Meditations


15th

Websites and complexity


14th

Smart Technology


13th

What makes you happy?


12th

Human debugging


9th

Leaving a mark


6th

Ups and downs


1st

August

Setups


26th

Minimal Technology


20th

Quitting social media


16th

Minimalism and Technology


13th

A Short Hike


11th

Understated design


8th

July

A simple browser


7th

May

Mental Space


15th

Writing, Hiking and Sharing


6th

I want my phone to be a washing machine


2nd

April

Life, money, work, and a bunch of other things


30th

Low tech solutions


15th

March

What does minimalism sound like?


28th

Digital and Work Setup


8th

Minimalism Life


5th

February

Time


22nd

Hello fellow human being


5th

January

Technology of thoughts


21st

Addition by subtraction


20th

Problems and solutions


10th

Digital Hermit


5th

2018 December

Walking


11th

November

A bit of this, a bit of that


26th

Lists are hard


11th

Blogs


7th

Why I stopped using feeds


1st

October

The rhythm of digital life


9th

Seven


8th

Let’s talk Minimalism


7th

September

Timeless design


9th

Another iPhone post


8th

A moment with the sunset and some puddles


1st

August

Do not disturb


30th

Ignore the numbers


19th

Why I love emails


14th

Quiet web


13th

July

A minimal browser


29th

The curation issue


25th

Online authenticity


23rd

There are people on the other side


9th

Who are you?


7th

Typography and spacing in CSS


6th

History of my personal website


5th

Watching The World Cup


4th

Mnmlqts


2nd

June

Mnmllist


21st

Minimalissimo Shop


14th

Be deliberate


11th

A reflection on digital publications


10th

TTRO


10th

Things To Read Online


6th

My “Water May”


3rd

May

"Not so quick" update


16th

The usefulness of preferences


11th

My April without surfing the internet


5th

April

My March with no sweets, cookies and cakes


1st

March

Alessandro Scarpellini


28th

Portfolios


22nd

My weird phone setup


18th

A minimal email client


13th

My February without music and podcasts


1st

February

This is it


15th

A January with no computer before lunch


3rd

January

Numbers and stats


31st

Meditation as a design tool


21st

The Gallery - Version Six


15th

I own a smartphone


3rd

A December with no wifi


1st

2017 December

Year in review, 2017 edition


29th

Opinions


12th

Personal brand is a stupid concept


10th

How to deal with iOS like a crazy person


8th

A November without digital entertainment


1st

November

Being a "digital nomad" is overrated


29th

Designed Space


20th

Collaborations


13th

6.04


6th

An October without phone and tablet


1st

October

Podcast Recommendations


25th

Have fun


18th

Money and Stress


8th

September

A September without gaming


30th

What matters


21st

Declutter


17th

On tools and crafts


8th

My year of living without


7th

Way too many side projects


6th

Looking for something to read?


5th

August

The unappreciated value of silence


16th

Do I need this?


15th

July

Minimalissimo


20th

March

A moment with water and waterfalls


19th

February

Winter is almost over


26th

Style and lifestyle


19th

Self questioning


12th

Deal with it


5th

January

Obstacles


28th

Find something that works for you


21st

I hate you Winter


14th

So far so good.


7th

Habits. habits everywhere.


1st
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