"Link in bio" is a smoker's cough

Anil Dash wrote yesterday that "Link in Bio" is a slow knife. I'd call it a smoker's cough, a nagging reminder that you're using a toxic product.

Jamie Zawinski has been blogging about this problem for years. It's in that post that I saw the perversity of Instagram giving us all exactly one link. One single hyperlink per user.

I found both those posts via links, using RSS.

Speaking of jwz.org, read the site content for 10 minutes and then look out your window at the snow or sky. You'll see some strong purple after-images.