About

Maciej Cegłowski is a Polish-American programmer, essayist, internet commentator, and the founder of the beloved independent bookmarking service Pinboard.

He is widely celebrated for his legendary conference keynotes and essays—such as “The Website Obesity Crisis”, “Haunted by Data”, and “The Internet With a Human Face”. Throughout the past two decades, he has been one of the web’s sharpest and most prescient critics of surveillance capitalism, web bloat, privacy degradation, and the systemic incentives of advertising-driven tech monopolies.

On his iconic personal website idlewords.com, he publishes rich, satirical, and intellectually formidable essays spanning internet history, digital preservation, aviation, travelogues, and the ethics of computing.