Interconnected
Matt Webb — Designer, technologist, and co-author of Mind Hacks
A blog by Matt Webb. My notebook and space for thinking out loud since February 2000.
interconnected.org/homeI would know its presence only by the slop it left behind, slop as ectoplasm from where the ghost has been.
Matt Webb has been thinking out loud on Interconnected since February 2000, making it one of the oldest personal blogs still running. Posts wander freely between AI, design philosophy, computing futures, and cultural observation — a piece might start with a forgotten HTML file on his laptop and end at the idea of computers as haunted spaces. The joy is in the unexpected connections, drawn by someone with 26 years of practice at following curiosity wherever it leads.
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Filtered for electricity and mayonnaise
1. Rain panels? Rain panels. researchers have found a way to capture, store and utilize the electrical power generated by falling raindrops, which may lead to the development of rooftop, power-generating rain panels. – The Debrief, Forget solar panels. Here come the rain panels (2023) Reading the citations on the original paper, it works kinda but research is ongoing. Science rather than technology still. RELATED: Wild Video Shows Entire Mountain Range in China Covered With Solar Panels (2025)...
mist: Share and edit Markdown together, quickly (new tool)
It should be SO EASY to share + collaborate on Markdown text files. The AI world runs on .md files. Yet frictionless Google Docs-style collab is so hard… UNTIL NOW, and how about that for a tease. If you don’t know Markdown, it’s a way to format a simple text file with marks like **bold** and # Headers and - lists… e.g. here’s the Markdown for this blog post. Pretty much all AI prompts are written in Markdown; engineers coding with AI agents have folders full of .md files and that’s what they pr...
90% of everything is sanding e.g. laundry
What mundane pleasures will I be robbed of by domestic robots? Sometimes I feel like my job at home is putting things into machines and taking things out of machines. I don’t mean to sound unappreciative about “modern conveniences” (modern being the 1950s) because I take care of laundry and emptying the dishwasher, and I love both. We have a two drawer dishwasher so that is a conveyer belt. And I particularly love laundry. We generate a lot of laundry it seems. There was a tweet in 2025: "woodwo...
Singing the gospel of collective efficacy
If I got to determine the school curriculum, I would be optimising for collective efficacy. So I live in a gentrified but still mixed neighbourhood in London (we’re the newbies at just under a decade) and we have an active WhatsApp group. Recently there was a cold snap and a road nearby iced over – it was in the shade and cyclists kept on wiping out on it. For some reason the council didn’t come and salt it. Somebody went out and created a sign on a weighted chair so it didn’t blow away. And thi...
Do today’s work today
You couldn’t go a week in the 80s as a kid in Britain without someone saying "Oompa-Loompa stick it up your jumper." You did this action too, pumping your hand to make a weird bulge under your jumper through a hoop made with one arm and a pretend arm made from an empty sleeve. Oh here’s a YouTube. Entertainment before the internet! (I never know if “jumper” is a word outside the UK? A sweater, a pullover.) It’s funny how these things come into your head after honestly decades. I think it’s about...
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