Store state in the browsers url is great advice. Just like you try to build (web) components (in any of those web frameworks) in the most stateless fashion (using @Input() decorators or any other way to send state down into a component), using the URL to store this information might be a good choice.

The only downside I see myself is autocompletion of urls with the appended state information when trying to browse the webpage, e.g. instead of going to example.com/posts the browser autocompletes example.com/posts?filters=a+b+c&category=foo&brand=bar. I then have to delete all of those parameters to get rid of these filters.

Nothing new: after getting komooted , BendingSpoons buys AOL .

I just had a look at the list of people and investors.

I think this mix reflects quite well what the company does:

1. Buying great companies with lots of users
2. Reducing Selling, General & Admin and (OPEX), keeping the services running without introducing new features
3. Selling and milking user data

It now seems as if we have reached a plateau in AI development. Improvements in LLM are slowly coming to a halt, and the difference between GPT 4.5 and GPT 5 appears to be minimal. I don’t believe that AGI can be achieved by only training with more and more data. I don’t even believe that the LLM era will last¹. I have always believed that this is not the way to create true (artificial) intelligence. The recent article “Sakana AI’s CTO says he’s ‘absolutely sick’ of transformers, the tech that powers every major AI model” gives me a similar feeling. Especially the following paragraph made me think:

I hate this feature and I wished YouTube would get rid of it or provide a way to disable it. This is the kind of dictation that reduces the overall user experience.

When I wrote my post on the YouTube auto dubbing I couldn’t imagine thanking YouTube for this feature. YouTube lost their soul throughout the years with strange business decisions, their push against ad blockers, and awful creator support. Just to mention a few.