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The entire Super Mario Bros. movie keeps getting posted to Twitter
A major social media platform with no moderation team is a major social media platform with hilarious DMCA problems.
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There’s a Problem With Banning TikTok. It’s Called the First Amendment.
World wide web internet anniversary
Steve Jobs emails Bill Gates
They are really going out of their way to say that they intend to kill QuickTime, and are being quite threatening and rude about it.
Product Outlook: Write.as and WriteFreely
After taking a bit of a sabbatical in 2022, I’m back into Write.as and WriteFreely development. My views on the product naturally change ...
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Can ActivityPub save the internet?
Imagine a world without platform lock-in, where no ban or billionaire could take down your social network. That’s what ActivityPub has planned.
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Star Trek fantasy: step aboard every Starship Enterprise with this website
Sit in the chair. Open the turbolift. Admire the LCARS.
Copy and Kill: The Ex-Tweeps Hatching a Plan to Knock Off Twitter
On the day Sarah Oh got laid off from Twitter last November, her friend Gabor Cselle called with his condolences. Then he made her an offer: Would she help him build a better Twitter? Cselle wasn’t trying to reinvent the social media wheel. He just wanted to return to a simpler time on the ...
Moving from Electron to Tauri 2
Part 2: Local Data Storage — Implementing a database backend in Rust for a Tauri...
Six Months In: Thoughts On The Current Post-Twitter Diaspora Options
Today is six months since Elon took over Twitter and began this bizarre speedrun of the content moderation learning curve in which he seems to repeatedly… not learn a damn thing. Over and over agai…
Happy Friday! Now you can verify your fediverse / Mastodon / open web website...
ust head to your blog's Customize page, and enter the URL you want to verify. If you’re on Mastodon, simply add a link back to your Write.as blog and it’ll show up as verified! It works by adding a rel="me" link in the `` section of your blog. (Thanks to @rmasoni@m...
TestFlight's Inability to Handle Large Beta Collections Needs to Be Fixed
I’ve been thinking about app scalability a lot lately – most recently in the context of TestFlight, which I find is incredibly frustrating to use, at best, and, on the Mac, often unusable. This isn’t a new problem for me, but I haven’t mentioned it much in the past because I’ve suspected that my experience
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Assessing Driving Styles in Commercial Motor Vehicle Drivers After Take-Over Conditions in Highly Automated Vehicles | IEEE Journals & Magazine | IEEE Xplore
Hip-Hop at Fifty: An Elegy
A generation is still dying younger than it should—this time, of “natural causes.”
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Bluesky is my favorite Twitter clone yet
Right now, it’s really fun to hang out on Bluesky.
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The next Forza will help blind players race by listening to “beeps and boops”
Forza Motorsport gets some impressive accessibility features.
Early History of HTML - 1990 to 1992
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Should we trust Apple with mental health data?
What the default settings on the Apple Watch tell us about the move.
There’s no website like the Internet Movie Cars Database: interview with Antoine Potten
Interview with IMCDb.org’s longtime owner and operator to learn what makes this community-supported, car-focused database so unique in 2023
A Tweet Before Dying
The revolutionary internet is over, and we don’t have much to show for it. A new start is out there, somewhere.
How to ask for help on IRC - RJ's Notes
How to ask for help properly on IRC so that you get responses faster. Also relevant to forums and mailing lists
» Manifesto Early Retirement Extreme: — a combination of simple living, anticonsumerism, DIY ethics, self-reliance, resilience, and applied capitalism
Turn Your Own Wrenches - by Scott Gilbertson
Hands on: Apple's savings account for Apple Card owners
After an announcement months ago, Apple Savings is available for Apple Card users to transfer Daily Cash rewards into a high-yield savings account. Here's how to get started.
How to Store Dotfiles - A Bare Git Repository | Atlassian Git Tutorial
It's time to find a better way to store your dotfiles. Learn why you should start using a bare Git repository instead.
Teen welcomes gamers to his second CoMo Retro Games Con
The CoMo Retro Game Con will take place Saturday, with hundreds revisiting their old Atari and Nintendo game days.
Markdown to Bike conversion - BrettTerpstra.com
I’m liking outlining in Jesse Grossjean’s latest app, Bike , for my outlining needs. It’s a simple outliner that can save the content of its outlines to Bike files, OPML documents, or plain text. And
Thousands fled to Mastodon after Musk bought Twitter. Are they still ‘tooting’?
The decentralized social network has seen user numbers drop in recent months, but tech-savvy users remain passionate
Schedule a text message on iPhone, iPad, and Mac
In this blog post I walk through how to get scheduled send for Messages.app, or "schedule a text message to send later on iPhone", with no third-party apps required!