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"I believe we’re far from reaching our full potential."

Few apps have made a more valiant effort to rescue us from indolence than Things, the to-do list app for Mac and iOS from German software developer Cultured Code. When it debuted as one of the...

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A list of executable file formats that we don’t really use anymore. That said, if you want to load up an Adobe AIR application, we can’t stop you.

Our podcast goes through all the products announced.

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An education in “juice,” how to protect your shins, and keeping 12,000 daily tons of garbage at bay.

Developers can now use 1Password to set up and use SSH keys to sign Git commits, building on 1Password’s already robust support for SSH keys.

Chromebooks are mainstream but many people don’t grok Chromeboxes. Some wonder what’s the point of Chromeboxes and what to use them for,...

programming, language design, and human factors

Luckily, I don’t have to use this kind of title often. But when I do, there’s a good reason: this year’s beta release cycle for all of Apple’s operating systems has been a mess. The months since WWDC in June have been a terrible experience for both customers and developers alike and the literal center […]

Essay on the benefits of speedy software, and how it affects user perception of engineering quality and overall usability

The gripping inside story of YouTube, the company that upended media, culture, industry, and democracy—by a leading tech journalist Across the world, people watch more than a billion hours of video...

It’s all about the iPhone.

In 2010, the original iA Writer introduced focused writing with Markdown. Twelve years later, iA Writer opens the doors to a simple and friendly knowledge management system with wikilinks.

A piece of writing aiming to be academic must be 'clear, concise, focused, structured and backed up by evidence'. We believe that Markdown writing tools make it easier to focus on content and thus support the main aim of academic writing. iA Writer has a couple of tricks up its sleeves that other apps do not.

Ronn is a fantastic, simple tool that leverages the Markdown you use every day to create man pages for your command-line software.

Converting a man page to markdown is a three step process: installing a tool that can convert the source of a man page to markdown finding the location of the man page source doing the actual conve…

Progressives aren’t the only ones who need free-speech protections.

What comes next.

Is this wave of internet idealists any different from the last?

We’re just about to reach 40 million annotations! Here’s to all the annotators out there: We share this milestone with each of you. Read all about it — and find out what else we've been up to lately.

Evan Spiegel isn’t going down without a fight.

The new GitHub Issues - September 1st update

The academic search engine’s policy on name changes is out of step with other search tools and publishers.

How to automatically connect via cellular when there's no Wi-Fi.

As promised, I’ve updated Read2Text as a standalone binary using the Swift versions of Readability and HTML2Text. In the process I made it a whole new tool called Gather . You may recall that name

Gather is constantly improving at this point, and a lot of its rough edges have already been polished. I’m loving all the feedback I’m getting, both for fixing bugs and for adding new features. It’s

The turmoil associated with Elon Musk’s bid to purchase the company was a breaking point.