A vision for the "small web", small software, and small architectures.

Welcome to my yearly post about stuff I’ve loved in the last year. I love doing this because it reminds me how amazing the Mac/iOS app ecosystem is these days. I can’t list every app I use in this

Can you believe it's been 6 years since my last Tools list? Tools have changed, ...

Motorola Razr Minus (2023).

If, as starting graduate students, you are following my first key advice of reading on a regular basis scientific manuscripts related to your field of research in general and your project in partic…

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Apple has introduced Freeform, and users on multiple devices can now use the app. But is it worth doing so? We investigate.

The Washington Post tech columnist Taylor Lorenz talks to host Ben Brock Johnson about her new book, "Extremely Online," where she argues that we've been paying too much attention to the Elon Musks of the world and not enough to everyday internet users.

A technique used by Google researchers to reveal ChatGPT training data is now banned by OpenAI.

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Find out details about the SongShift 6.0 update that just released to the App Store. SongShift 6.0 features an entire redesign, in addition to large SongShare updates, song recognition, tags, and more.

pThere is currently little reporting or research about the quality or veracity of the content that is circulating on Twitch. However, the Amazon-owned platform has become its own thriving corner of the internet, cultivating a user base that is culturally influential, young, politically engaged, and easily mobilized/p

pVirginia Heffernan’s Twitter bio once described her as “something like a critic.” Her reluctance to fully embrace the title is understandable, given that most of what passes as technology criticism today tends either towards gadget reviews or curmudgeons bemoaning the loss of what makes us human. Somewhere along the line, critical writing about technology became […]/p

I have recently been working on a personal web project that involves a lot of testing on my iPhone. While I would usually just have my iPhone to the side on my desk to test my changes in real-time and take screenshots, I was looking for a solution to mirror my iPhone’s screen directly on

I've written a tool for creating a searchable archive of all your Reddit data.

“We think that language models and AI give us the ingredients to make a new kind of software”

Atlantic writer Tim Alberta grew up in the evangelical church, the son of a pastor. His book, The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory, examines why so many evangelicals are ardent Trump supporters.

The tech industry is supposed to be the cradle of innovation—but it’s become a redoubt of waste and unproductivity.

Yesterday, Apple released Apple Music Replay, its annual recap of Apple Music subscribers’ listening habits. The site is beautifully designed with images of artists coming to life with video when you’re not scrolling the page. Included this year are: A highlight reel Top artists Top songs Top albums Top genres Top playlists Top radio stations

From Slack to the dinner table, honesty really is the best policy

Canary Mail stands out among email clients thanks to privacy-minded encryption features and built-in AI that can write messages for you.

Marcos Tanaka’s Play has become the way I watch YouTube, which isn’t something I expected would happen as much as I’ve enjoyed the app since its launch early last year. The app, available on the iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple TV, started as a way to save YouTube links to watch later. That made Play

Google just plugged Bard into a variety of its products — but the AI chatbot might not be the helpful assistant that Google wants it to be.

Ace reporter Wayne Ma has a new scoop about a feature likely coming to Siri in iOS 18. The upcoming...

Apple has been expanding its computing budget for building artificial intelligence to millions of dollars a day. One of its goals is to develop features such as one that allows iPhone customers to use simple voice commands to automate tasks involving multiple steps, according to people familiar ...

As part of my ongoing experiment with third-party web browsers for the iPhone, I recently stumbled upon a new indie browser for iOS, which I was instantly drawn to thanks to its adorable name. Quiche Browser is a beautiful browser developed by Greg de J that focuses on UI modularity and small quality-of-life enhancements. The

From table hacks to CSS kludges, these are some of the techniques that helped web developers get their fancy pages on the internet.

We all know updaters in Shortcuts, they have been there since Workflow was introduced. Like Shortcuts they come in many different variants all with their strengths and weaknesses. Recently a new member on the Discord Shortcuts server published his version of an updater called “ Very smol updater “ this name sounded funny to me … Update in a different way Read More »