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Fuck|Thank you<br>Published: 2026.06.08 · 11 minutes read<br>Some of the tech giants for the past few years have tried hard to kill the most important tool of the web, links. AI companies have stolen content from the web without ever asking for permission just to wrap it into the soulless chats that keep on forgetting to credit the original authors. They rarely mention where the source of the information comes from. You know, a link.<br>Let’s forget the privacy violations for a sec, Google until recently, was a useful search engine that helped you find the links to the things you’re after. This contract is also broken now, and the new Google interface from now on is here to give you some mashup of general knowledge about the stuff you’re interested in. No links.<br>Fuck you! To all of the companies that obfuscate links. Fuck you! You are killing the web. Fuck you!<br>Thank you<br>Enough of swearing. A bunch of incredible people who made the internet interesting to me are losing motivation to create. My friends who pour their souls into what they do are losing hope. I’m not surprised. My writing has also slowed down, and all I’m spending my days on now is building a product with a little hope I’ll be able to generate some side income in these uncertain times. In a way, after over 15 years of professional software development, I’m not different from all the vibe coders and CEOs of 11 start-ups on LinkedIn at the age of 17. I don’t know what to do.<br>I really hope that all my people will find a way to get out of this state. Despite how disincentivising the act of creating stuff on the web is nowadays, we need it now more than ever. The web is flooded with mediocre stuff, generated nonsense that marketing departments believe is going to improve their SEO and GEO (Generative Engine Optimisation) because that’s the thing now. Bloggers who believe they can become the next Seth Godin overnight. We don’t need any of that, but more than ever we need you, the creator, to persist!<br>Inspired by a great post &ldquo;Reach out and say thanks&rdquo; by Kevin Powell, I just want to say thanks to a few of you. All of you are very special to me. No matter if we know each other in person or I’m an online fan of your content, thank you!<br>Dr. Axel Rauschmayer, thank you<br>Adrian Roselli, thank you<br>Ben Frain, thank you<br>Ben Myers, thank you<br>Chris Coyier, thank you<br>Bramus Van Damme, thank you<br>Dave Rupert, thank you<br>Hidde de Vries, thank you<br>Jake Archibald, thank you<br>Jim Nielsen, thank you<br>Josh Comeau, thank you<br>Rob Hough, thank you<br>Luciano Mammino, thank you<br>Andy Bell, thank you<br>Stefan Judis, thank you<br>Kyle Simpson, thank you<br>Redowan Delowar, thank you<br>Keith Cirkel, thank you<br>Dave Lotorie, thank you<br>Others<br>Dr. Axel Rauschmayer, thank you<br>I learned a lot from your books and I read probably most of your articles on the JavaScript and TypeScript subjects. For years I kept on coming back to your explainers of JavaScript proposals. I’m sure without the knowledge you shared on your blog over the years I wouldn’t be able to progress in my career and be where I am now. Your recent decision about taking your blog offline is devastating but also fully understandable. I really hope you’re well. Thank you!<br>Axel&rsquo;s website<br>Axel on Mastodon<br>Adrian Roselli, thank you<br>Accessibility is something I really try not to break. The internet is accessible by default in most parts and it is us, developers, who made this mess and made websites harder to use for others. I really appreciate your constant reminders about it on your blog, Adrian. Your articles are absolutely top of the league and I massively appreciate all your technical deep dives. Also, I don’t know any other blogger who keeps articles up to date as you do. I don’t think that there is an author whose posts I’ve got saved in my very carefully curated bookmarking collection as I have yours. Adrian, thank you!<br>Adrian&rsquo;s website<br>Adrian on Mastodon<br>Adrian on Bluesky<br>Ben Frain, thank you<br>From great CSS deep dives through the tutorials on code editors to the recent fascinations about keyboards and modal text editors, I’m a huge fan. I hope you’re well, Ben. For what you have shared over the years, thank you!<br>Ben&rsquo;s website<br>Ben&rsquo;s YouTube channel<br>Ben Myers, thank you<br>When your article pops up in my RSS feed, I never skip it. Your explanations of accessibility concepts are super approachable and I love your deep advocacy for the semantic web. I learned a lot from you, dude. Thank you!<br>Ben&rsquo;s website<br>Ben on Mastodon<br>Ben on Bluesky<br>Chris Coyier, thank you<br>Don&rsquo;t know where to start. CSS Tricks was a web bible for me for many years. I read most of the posts there and participated in the comments section under hundreds of posts. Your podcast with Dave for the past years (close to a decade) is a constant source of web info and funny stories for me. No matter what and who you record an episode with, I never skip a thing. CodePen is incredible...