“To be truly countercultural in a time of tech hegemony, one has to, above all, betray the platform.”

As a part of my ongoing 20 Macs for 2020 project, I’ve been releasing weekly podcast episodes featuring the voices of a bunch of people I know discussing the Macs I’ve placed on my list…

Comparison chart of iPad and iPhone (iOS) text editing applications.

Developer, writer, CEO (Postlight)

How Thunderbolt, the ultra-fast connector that recently turned 10, started life with a completely different look. (Fun fact: $400 Thunderbolt 3 cables exist.)

In an internal document obtained by MacRumors, Apple has acknowledged an issue with some iPhone 12 displays exhibiting flickering, a green or gray...

The social media service is tapping into the creativity, intimacy, and authenticity that audio can deliver, a trend that lies at the heart of the current golden age of podcasting.

Microsoft today announced that it is making Power Automate Desktop, its enterprise-level tool for creating automated desktop-centric workflows, available

a close reading of his exit letter to Amazon employees

Historic milestones don’t always line up with large round numbers on our calendars. For example, I suggest that the 1950s ended with the assassination of JFK in late 1963, and the rise of Bri…

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In 2016, grand predictions were issued about the fate of art under the new regime. The culture would suffer, dragged into the morass of Trump’s gaudy, ’80s flair — his ill-fitting suits, overlong ties…

A reflection on DIY in the age of Facebook.

Network topology and the ghost of the digg homepage

After Janette Fennell was kidnapped and locked in a car trunk, she fought her way to Washington to make vehicles safer.

The Vidya Gaem Awards (/v/GAs) are an online award show originating from 4chan’s /v/ - Video Games board. It is an annual award show, with…

Every reader is a reader of crime novels. They want the criminal to succeed because they want to escape, and they want the police to catch the criminal because they want to restore order. The reader has the same attitude toward writing in general. She wants it to be free, and then she also wants to say that the third act was all wrong, or that the story didn’t deliver, or that this time around its heart wasn’t in the right place. But whenever a story seems off, that’s when you know that the author was free. A story isn’t a fucking chair. This isn’t Bauhaus.

The field as is doesn’t deserve to persist. But scholars are hard at work improving things.

Adult Swim has canceled Million Dollar Extreme's show, which gave us experimental proof that self-caricature and impenetrability are explosive when mixed.

Revolutionary movie search engine where you can freely describe a film you want to watch.