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Weekly Musings 203
Weekly Musings 203
Welcome to this edition of Weekly Musings, where each Wednesday I share some thoughts about what's caught my interest in the last seven d...
Weekly Musings 203
Fantastical’s iOS 14 Widgets
Fantastical’s iOS 14 Widgets
Link to: https://www.macstories.net/reviews/fantastical-debuts-powerful-versatile-widgets-alongside-scribble-for-ipad/
Fantastical’s iOS 14 Widgets
Apollo: A Powerful, Modern Reddit Client for iOS
Apollo: A Powerful, Modern Reddit Client for iOS
Reddit is one of those spaces on the Internet that I’ve historically stayed mostly away from. Due to my role at MacStories, however, and a thriving Apple subreddit, I’ve been there more in the past year than all prior years combined. During that time I’ve tried all the best iOS Reddit clients in an attempt
Apollo: A Powerful, Modern Reddit Client for iOS
Bear 2 will have a new price only for new customers
Bear 2 will have a new price only for new customers
Here’s a TL;DR of what’s changing when Bear 2 ships. But we definitely recommend you read the whole post: Existing Bear Pro customers keep the current price as long as you stay subscribed ($1.49/month or $14.99/year USD). Yes, even if you subscribe between now and when Bear 2 ships After Bear
Bear 2 will have a new price only for new customers
The transformation of the word geek
The transformation of the word geek
pIn Liar’s Poker, his 1989 seminal account of trading, Michael Lewis has a chapter called “From Geek to Man.” Here’s what he says about “geeks”: “A geek is a circus performer who bites the heads off live chickens and snakes. Or so says the red American Heritage Dictionary.” When Lewis arrived at Salomon Brothers in […]/p
The transformation of the word geek
News outlets, Twitter, and the fediverse
News outlets, Twitter, and the fediverse
The news cycle is talking about NPR leaving Twitter. This is a good moment to look at a case study of Heise, a big German news outlet, and what joining Mastodon actually means in terms of numbers and engagement.
News outlets, Twitter, and the fediverse
I forgot about the Titlecase API - BrettTerpstra.com
I forgot about the Titlecase API - BrettTerpstra.com
I made a little web service back in 2015 and somewhere in the following 7 years I forgot about it. I’ve been adding title-casing to various projects and plugins and keep writing new code for it…
I forgot about the Titlecase API - BrettTerpstra.com
Migrating Mastodon lists
Migrating Mastodon lists
My original Mastodon account was on mastodon.social. I chose it because it’s the largest instance, it’s operated by the developers of the service, and it runs the reference implementati…
Migrating Mastodon lists
Filters, Content Warnings, and Improving Your Mastodon Feed
Filters, Content Warnings, and Improving Your Mastodon Feed
This article gained traction over the past couple weeks, and it mentioned something that I feel like I keep seeing casual Mastodon users complain about: People relentlessly calling Twitter the “birdsite” Do they???? I got heckled once of twice for calling "Twitter" by it's name like once or twice back
Filters, Content Warnings, and Improving Your Mastodon Feed