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Last Week in Fediverse – ep 66
The EU pilot for the fediverse comes to an end, but the European Commission will stay on the fediverse; Ghost announces that they will support ActivityPub and build a fediverse news reading client, and Mastodon creates a U.S.-based non-profit.
The Apple Jonathan: A Very 1980s Concept Computer That Never Shipped
In the middle of the 1980s, Apple found itself with several options regarding the future of its computing platforms. The Apple II was the company's bread and butter. The Apple III was pitched as an evolution of that platform, but was clearly doomed due to hardware and software issues. The Lisa was expensive and not [...]
WordPress.com Owner Buys Beeper, App That Enabled iMessage on Android
Automattic Inc., the internet company behind popular online blogging service WordPress.com, acquired the messaging app at the heart of a recent dispute with Apple Inc.
Clipchamp is Microsoft’s new video editing app for Windows 11
Windows finally has a better video editing app again.
Pipe Dreams: The life and times of Yahoo Pipes
In 2007, a small team at Yahoo! briefly changed how we program the internet. This is their story.
A Teenager Has Remade Myspace and Everyone Is Loving It
How To Not Die By A Thousand Cuts. Or, How To Think About Software Quality.
Not a weighty meandering 300 page Zen dialogue on Motorcycle Maintenance. Merely a meandering blog post in which one contemplates /Quality/ of software products.
Advent of Computing: Episode 126 - IBM Compatible (No, Not Those)
This episode wraps up the System/360 trilogy by taking things back to where they started for me. We will be looking at System/360 clones, how they could exist, why they existed, and why IBM didn't crush them. We close with a discussion of how these earlier clones impact our understanding of the IBM PC story. The truth is, by 1981 IBM was no stranger to clones. This is the culmination of a wild story, so prepare! Selected Sources: - ICL: A Business and Technical History - Impact Report by INPUT
The Arc of Collaboration - kwokchain
The arc of collaboration is long and it bends in the direction of functional workflows. Why Slack is an Else Statement, there is no distinction between productivity and collaboration, and why the Slack of Gaming may be Discord but the Discord for Enterprise is not Slack. Disclaimer: I currently use every product mentioned in this … Continue reading The Arc of Collaboration →
Electron is flash for the desktop
What is slack doing? The process was in the background when this happened. I wasn't even interacting with it - I was in a meeting. I only noticed because my laptop fans were whurring when I got back. Restarting slack seemed to fix it for now. But that's not abnormal
Nobody Ever Gets Credit for Fixing Problems that Never Happened
An early spatial experience
Long before Apple Vision Pro, there was QuickTime VR.
The moral case for iMessage on Android
It’s bad for Apple but good for humanity.
The myth and reality of Mac OS X Snow Leopard
Flappy Dird: Flappy Bird implemented in MacOS Finder
Unity who??
Google’s product graveyard: the company’s best, worst, and weirdest ideas
While some of Google's failed products genuinely deserved to die, others were undernourished, misunderstood, or just ahead of their time
The History of Cover Flow
Over the last decade or so, Apple has been hard at work in simplifying the user interfaces that power its myriad platforms. I've welcomed most of that work, but it's hard to deny that we've all lost some things along the way. Today, we look at a UI element that started life in iTunes, but [...]
When XML in Word Became Illegal
Plus! A Sonos v. Google surprise, a 101 case rejects cert, and Celgene's REVLIMID
Apple's mission to make the Mac safer is slowly destroying it
Overzealous security measures are ruining the simplicity of the macOS experience.
Michael Tsai - Blog - macOS 14 Sonoma
30 years of the web down under: how Australians made the early internet their own
What did Australians do online in the 1990s? Shared bioinformatics data, made cyberfeminist zines, cruised the information superhighway …
How the iMac saved Apple
Twenty-five years of the iMac.
90's tech culture was a jumbled mess
A tour through WIRED's old "Fetish" product review section
Digital Typography Technology: The Cold War TrueType Created
A discussion of the ways that large tech companies helped to define the evolution of computer typography. One battle made the CEO of Adobe really mad.
Instagram Announces New Text App | Instagram Blog
Spotify to buy podcast ad company Megaphone for $235 million
Spotify said it has agreed to acquire Megaphone, which offers technology for podcast publishers and advertisers seeking targeted slots on podcasts.
Video: driving Gran Turismo's icons
The game that put the Skyline, RX-7, Supra and NSX into our living rooms is 20
A prayer wheel for capitalism
How to make better software with systems-thinking
Reddit CEO doubles down on attack on Apollo developer in drama-filled AMA
Reddit’s unpopular decision to revise its API pricing in a move that’s forcing third-party apps out of business has taken a weird turn. In an AMA hosted today by Reddit co-founder and CEO Steve Huffman, aka u/spez on the internet forum site, the exec doubled down on accusations against the developer behind the well-liked third-party […]