Well, it happened. We knew it was coming. A prick pulled the plug. And what bothers me most about it is how Space Karen did it. My mom passed away just before Christmas. Her decline was something everyone in the family saw coming and we prepared for her demise. It still hurts like hell, but […]

Thoughts on Twitter, Mastodon, and owning your data

Is Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 too much for your PC to handle? Well, you can at least play the 1982 version in a browser.

Thousands of users have joined Mastodon since Elon Musk took control of Twitter. Founder Eugen Rochko says that's been a vindication

An email has been going around the internet as a part of a release of documents related to Apple’s App Store-based suit brought by Epic Games. I love this email for a lot of reasons, not the least of which is that you can extrapolate from it the very reasons Apple has remained such a […]

Aulia Masna of Macworld Indonesia interviews Loren Brichter, the creator of Tweetie for Mac and iPhone.

Discord, Mastodon, and other services are bustling as Twitter fans make backup plans for their online social lives.

Twitter has a new CEO. And he'd like to see your code, please

Read to the end for a good meme about British politics

When WhatsApp was sold to Facebook in 2014, it had almost half a billion monthly users, but a team of just 50 people running everything. Compare this to Twitter, which today has a staff of 7,500 to manage half the number of users. Yet Musk is the crazy one here for suggesting that maybe Twitter could operate with a mere TWO THOUSAND em...

Now what does that flattened Möbius strip logo remind us of?

Most people think of Telnet as "that thing I used to use to remotely access servers." But a few hearty souls are still keeping their Telnet services online — and it's a great way to experience some good old-fashioned time-wasting fun!

Twitter is rolling out the ability to edit tweets to Blue subscribers in Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

The software industry makes amazing tools for itself, while doctors and scientists are stuck with old code. Tech needs to quit hacking and start listening.

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.

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

Don't hate the technology, hate the implementation.

Shazam — one of the most beloved and popular music discovery platforms in the world — turns 20 today.

Plus: Decades-old security flaws, a wave of startup layoffs, and multiple “thousand-year” rainfalls.

by Elizabeth Feinler and John Vittal

The NYTimes iOS team has been working on our style guide for over a year and we finally decided that it’s time to share it with the Objective-C community.

The three guests will talk to Swisher about Steve Jobs.

Not an artistic judgement. Just a technical one.

Influencers in the wild.

Navigating a strange new world through tech.

This mockup is much more readable.

Alan Kay recently gave his 1970's Xerox Alto to Y Combinator and I'm helping with the restoration of this legendary system. The Alto was t...

Way before social media, listservs acted as a glue that held the web community together.