Anil Dash

medium.com/@anildash · Personal blog · on HN since 2015

Anil Dash, a tech writer and entrepreneur, writes on the web's design, social media, JavaScript, and the ethics of tech.

What HN saysHN commenters link his Medium posts on the web's missing building blocks and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, though one notes the irony of discussing web centralization on Medium.
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What HN people wrote when they linked it

tannhaeuser · 2018-04-16
Worse, linking to Amil Dash's article on medium [1], of all things, makes complaining about oligopolization of the Web kind of inconsequential. [1]: https://medium.com/@anildash/the-missing-building-blocks-of-the-web-3f…
onewaystreet · 2016-04-27
The second half of this piece states the fear pretty well: https://medium.com/@anildash/how-to-look-at-the-chan-zuckerberg-initia…

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