Every day, millions of hyperlinks quietly stop working — old URLs that once pointed to real content now route to error pages, domain squatters, or absolute nothing. Link rot is the internet's least glamorous crisis, and it's steadily hollowing out the web's ability to function as a collective memory. Nobody's fixing it, and the reasons why say everything about how we built this thing.
Jul 21, 2026
Every link you've ever bookmarked is on a countdown timer. The internet doesn't preserve history — it actively buries it, one broken URL at a time. And the people doing the burying often have very good reasons to want the past gone.
Jul 20, 2026
Password managers were supposed to be the cure for credential chaos — one vault to rule them all. Instead, they've quietly become the most attractive targets on the internet, stuffed with every secret you own and, apparently, secured with the digital equivalent of a screen door. We need to talk about this.
Jul 20, 2026