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May 2025

Peek into the tabs of a public-service designer
A civic tech creative who went from customizing MySpace pages to rethinking how public digital services can look, feel and build trust.
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Kristina Bravo
Post the pot pie
Stories about the web you won’t find anywhere else.
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Kristina Bravo
The most L.A. corner of the internet
Before running L.A. Taco, Javier Cabral was a teenage food blogger. Now he’s building the kind of internet he always wanted to read.
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Kristina Bravo
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The syllabus didn’t cover this
Stories about the web you won’t find anywhere else.
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Kristina Bravo

April 2025

Hell Gate’s culture reporter on YouTube's cultural influence, plus the tab that got away
“There was a tab I closed once, and I’m pretty sure it would’ve changed my life.”
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Kristina Bravo
Who’s holding the internet together?
Stories about the web you won’t find anywhere else.
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Kristina Bravo
Inside the newsletter making layoffs feel less bleak
"It’s also meant to illuminate the cracks in our systems and how work, stability and identity are shifting for all of us."
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Kristina Bravo
Stealth wealth TikToks, a dark mode hack and fun web finds
Stories about the web you won’t find anywhere else.
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Kristina Bravo

March 2025

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