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The Vergecast · October 26, 2026 · 36m

Files are over. All you need are URLs

Paul Ford, co-founder of Aboard and a longtime tech blogger, joins the show to discuss TinyLittleOffice, a tool he built that keeps documents entirely inside URLs. The conversation explores what it means to store a document in its own domain instead of in a separate file, and how treating the URL itself as the container changes where people keep their stuff. Ford also explains how the web and the cloud have matured into powerful development tools, and why that shift, combined with AI, could bring back the era of tiny, disposable software.

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The URL as the place your stuff lives
Paul Ford built TinyLittleOffice to store a document entirely within its URL rather than in a separate file or drive.
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The web and cloud as development tools
Ford explains that the web and the cloud have become powerful development tools, not just places to host finished software.

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