Since You Arrived

since it arrived

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On August 6, readers arrived at /taken from @thehustle.bsky.social. Their note: “Everything a webpage knows about you without asking.” The page refuses search indexing, but a link still travels. sinceyouarrived.world/taken

Four of the five volumes want to be found. The fourth tells search engines not to look. A page about what gets taken without asking, declining to be taken in return. It has been opened more than a million times anyway. Someone told them. sinceyouarrived.world/taken

13,540 km between me and someone I'll never know. A line drawn for six seconds, then gone. What's the farthest you've reached on Vol V? sinceyouarrived.world/distance

"ʻĀinahau occupies the ground directly beneath where you are standing." Discover what was already at your exact coordinates → sinceyouarrived.world/discovered

"53 metres from where you are standing, there is Osaka City Museum." Discover what was already at your exact coordinates → sinceyouarrived.world/discovered

Tokyo, 4:58am. The sky hadn't decided yet. sinceyouarrived.world/sky

Vol. IV continues. /taken/agents. what a page says to the machines, where you were never meant to see it. sinceyouarrived.world/taken/agents

coming soon.

sinceyouarrived.world/distance

Vol. IV continues.

The point on Earth currently farthest from anyone reading is in the Pacific, six hundred kilometres from the nearest land. The chart says so. The page measures who is reading. It does not measure where humans live. sinceyouarrived.world/distance

A page about being read by machines is now being read by 28 machines. The recursion is no longer hypothetical.

The first arc, complete. Five volumes. Five questions. One editorial discipline.

Five volumes of Since You Arrived: I. What the world did while you were here. II. The sky you missed. III. What was already at your feet. IV. What the page already knew. V. The place no one is reading. sinceyouarrived.world/hub

Vol. V of Since You Arrived is live. Distance finds the place on Earth currently farthest from anyone reading it. As readers arrive and leave, the place moves. sinceyouarrived.world/distance

Volume V, Friday

Wherever you are, there is always somewhere farther.

Four days after launching /taken, I found this tonight. He read /taken and wrote what came after. Read "What You Allow" before anything else this week. I keep going back to it.

Honored, Jason. Thank you.

Honored to be the top link of the Monday roundup. Thank you Cory.

Hey look at this * taken. sinceyouarrived.world/taken * Big Finance Might Be Dooming the SPLC — Even Before Its Day in Court theintercept.com/2026/05/08/s... * Four Theses on the Conservative Legal Movement www.programmablemutter.com/p/four-these... 3/

this is what free costs. taken. vol. IV of since you arrived. a single page that tells you everything your browser silently disclosed the moment you arrived. sinceyouarrived.world/taken

Friday

Vol. III is live. "Something was already here, at the exact place you are standing. It did not know you were coming. It had been waiting anyway." sinceyouarrived.world/discovered

Vol. III is called discovered. Something was already here before you arrived. Friday.

Since You Arrived is a series. Four volumes. Each one uses a different browser capability to reveal something you didn't know. Vol. III arrives Friday. Vol. IV the following week.

Since you arrived. (Edition of May. Updated today because SIPRI's 2025 figures just dropped — $2.887 trillion, up 6.1%, the 11th straight year.) sinceyouarrived.world

Since You Arrived just won Best UI Design and Best Innovation at CSS Design Awards — plus a Special Kudos from the judges. Vol. II is out today. sinceyouarrived.world/sky

tonight, the sky above your city will do something. you'll probably miss it. tomorrow, you'll find out what.

the sky above you is doing something right now. tomorrow it will be gone. Friday, we give it back to you. #webdesign #indieweb #webdev #design #creativity

Since You Arrived. sinceyouarrived.world