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Jonathan Wold and Luke Carbis cohost a podcast called Crossword, focusing mainly on WordPress and the open web. They occasionally invite guests to join them, and it was my pleasure to join them on their latest episode:

John Gruber’s Dithering podcast with Ben Thompson was the original inspiration for Crossword’s 15-minute format. Five years later, John joins Luke and Jonathan for a wide-ranging conversation covering open versus closed platforms, the history and impact of Markdown, and a missed opportunity in WordPress. Luke goes on about the good old days, Jonathan starts thinking about a rival platform, and John makes a prediction for the ten-year follow-up episode.

While their usual format is a Dithering-esque 15 minutes, these special “perspectives” interviews run long. And unsurprisingly, mine ran long. I don’t write about the open web as much as I used to but I care about it as much as ever. I express some of my deep concerns about Substack in particular in this interview.

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It’s shark season, and nobody knows that better than Alice Games, the developer behind the upcoming marine dentistry simulator, Shark Dentist: an aptly named horror roguelike in which you play — you guessed it — a shark dentist. Despite its rather amusing title (“Shark Dentist” absolutely sounds like the kind of show you’d find airing […]

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iCapital, which makes tools for wealth managers to invest in alternative assets, raised $820M+ at a $7.5B+ valuation, bringing its total funding to $1.5B+  —  iCapital, a fintech platform for alternative investments and investors, has raised more than $820 million in a funding round that takes …