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Jia Tolentino's first essay collection, Trick Mirror, contains startling insights arrived upon through the New Yorker staff writer's own bizarre life experiences, many of which took place right here in Houston.

Christianity formed my deepest instincts, and I have been walking away from it for half my life.

What’s next?

When Twitter shut off API access, third-party apps were left high and dry. One app chose to pivot to become a Mastodon app.

It's high time we escaped the barbed-wire-fenced private domains of Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg. You don't need to search long for a key — at least if you know where to look.

We're releasing the Segment Anything Model (SAM) — a step toward the first foundation model for image segmentation — and the SA-1B dataset.

Scrivener for academic writing with Zotero : A robust setup for academic writing in Scrivener including references and bibliography, output to PDF and docx, and live preview.

A simple, searchable, themeable archive of your public tweets

by Darius Kazemi, Dec 31 2018 April 7th, 2019 is going to be the 50 year anniversary of the first ever Request for Comments, known as an...

It’s an exciting moment for classical music, and Apple’s new dedicated music streaming app is the perfect way to experience it.

In a frank conversation, the Apple CEO offers new insight into his leadership—and explains how he has refashioned the world’s most creative company (from its privacy policy to its Oscar-winning movies to what’s coming next) on his own exacting terms.

Post doesn't want to be just another Twitter clone.

The strength of Soulver lies in its flexibility. Full-fledged spreadsheet apps like Numbers and Excel have their place. However, day-to-day life requires calculations that don’t demand that level of horsepower and benefit from contextualizing numbers with text. It’s the kind of math that happens in notebooks and on the back of envelopes. By combining elements

Repairing LaunchServices database, rebuilding it from scratch, and controlling individual app entries – all using this undocumented command.

GitHub Issues & Projects - April 6th update

100 gecs share the story behind their nostalgic inspirations, working with their idols, and relying only on the essential

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A few weeks ago, I wrote about a new feature we added to the Jetpack plugin: a “Share to Mastodon” button. Nice, right? Mastodon is getting more and more popular, and it makes sense to …

Between 2019 and 2022, groups of Tesla employees privately shared via an internal messaging system sometimes highly invasive videos and images recorded by customers’ car cameras.

Users hate getting logged out, and designers make interfaces that reflect that.

How one button redefined our relationship to music.

I started simming as a pandemic hobby, and now I have a pilot’s license.

A special series from The Verge.

They’ll start rolling out in the “coming days.”

Back in January, I wrote about building an automation for my pal Lex that would generate a list of open meeting times for him to send to potential clients. Lex and I both use the Fantastical calend…

I just discovered that every copy of macOS ships with a hidden PDF of Satoshi Nakamoto's Bitcoin whitepaper. But why?

When Twitter changed hands last November I switched to Mastodon; ever since I’ve enjoyed happier and more productive social networking. To enhance my happiness and productivity I began workin…

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