Web programming round up

Some web programming articles from this week:

Enshittification

This is a worthwhile read and an interesting and perhaps important perspective: Tiktok’s enshittification. Don’t let the title fool you, the article is about a more general phenomena than relates to Tiktok. I came across the enshittification article today while reading How To Make the Least-Worst Mastodon Threads and about Jedi Blue.

Cory Doctorow writes some interesting stuff, like this: Como Is Infosec: Content moderation is a security problem.

And I learned about fisking, which sounds more risqué than it is. Sounds like what we’ve been doing since forever on usenet.

Popular video games

This is fun: List of best-selling video game franchises. Also good: List of longest-running video game franchises. Before I read the first list my sense of perspective was all off. I certainly hadn’t realised how seriously Mario had nailed it.

I ended up on those Wikipedia pages because I was reading about Capcom. And I was reading about Capcom because I have discovered Fabien Sanglard’s wonderful books.