Several optimisations and changes I've made to my single user mastodon instance.

Matthew Simmons writes about the open heart of a user known as Beebee.

Bun B is half of the legendary hip-hop group UGK. His partner, Pimp C, died in 2007. Their new album is UGK For Life.

Mona is a brand new, highly customizable Mastodon client from Junyu Kuang, the developer of Spring, which is one of the few remaining third-party Twitter clients that still works and pioneered many of the features found in Mona. Mona, which is available on the iPhone, iPad, and Mac, is a power-user app through and through.

After taking a bit of a sabbatical in 2022, I’m back into Write.as and WriteFreely development. My views on the product naturally change ...

ust head to your blog's Customize page, and enter the URL you want to verify. If you’re on Mastodon, simply add a link back to your Write.as blog and it’ll show up as verified! It works by adding a rel="me" link in the `` section of your blog. (Thanks to @rmasoni@m...

A generation is still dying younger than it should—this time, of “natural causes.”

The revolutionary internet is over, and we don’t have much to show for it. A new start is out there, somewhere.

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.

How Mastodon was prepared for Elon Musk’s Twitter to fail.

I know we’re deep, deep, deep into the moral panic about social media being uniquely awful, especially for kids. It’s driving all sorts of nonsense, including the false idea that we’re in a uniquel…

Endurance aloneness, and what the pros have to say about it.

Spotify is launching a feed that will help you discover new artists, podcasts, and audiobooks.

Airship technology has been around for over 150 years, but fell out of favor in the 1930s. Now, interest in the low-emission, lighter-than-air transport is reviving as a sustainable solution for logistics across the globe.

Audio company reveals new details about its big plans for video

OptOut aims to be a daily news app "100% free from corporate media narratives."

DaVinci Resolve is an all in one professional level video editing app that includes color grading, color correction, visual effects, and audio post-production. DaVinci Resolve is available for macO…

Resize Video to Target Size is a shortcut available on Routinehub that allows you to re-encode video files to a specific size using ffmpeg on MacOS.

It’s February 2nd, the day we first launched Write.as in 2015! A lot has happened this past year, both on the web and with the small team...

Welcome to another episode of Last Week in the Fediverse! The major theme of this week is news around technical infrastructure. Mastodon....

The company has lost a major source of inspiration.