VOL. XV Builder. Investor. Web obsessive. WIJCHEN, NL
Joost de Valk
Internet entrepreneur from the Netherlands. I'm Group Head of AI & Growth at Your.Online, leading an AI team that builds tools to help entrepreneurs get online and grow. Before that I founded Yoast, the WordPress SEO plugin, and I still invest in digital companies through Emilia Capital.
This blog is where I think out loud about the open web, content management, AI's effect on publishing, and the craft of shipping software that people actually use.
Fixing the plumbing of the web
I shipped specification.website, a platform-agnostic specification of what every good website should ship. Because two recent PRs taught me that patches fix one platform at a time, and the open web has no shared target.
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