PeerTube's plans for 2024, Flipboard flips the federation switch, and a lot of links to read.

It’s bad for Apple but good for humanity.

As of a few years ago, iOS started showing a modal warning whenever an app tried to read your clipboard. This was done to prevent apps from transparently monitoring your clipboard and gobbling up whatever was there. Some apps did this for nefarious reasons, while others had practical user-centric reasons

Every time I open the Memories tab in Apple’s Photos app, I feel disappointed. The memories it surfaces always seem to rehash the same events in my life, and they never really achieve to put my photos back in context. This is a big reason why, for so many years, I’ve been keeping a personal

“No one chasing money in media ever chased Twitter. But anyone chasing power found themselves irresistibly drawn to the platform.”

TikTok vs. chatbots

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I’ve been keeping a journal in Day One since at least 2015, and I’ve got to say, the practice has become very engrained in my otherwise chaotic daily routine. Whenever I get asked about journaling, I always say that it’s a habit that can take any form you like. It can take place in a

Today, Apple released iOS and iPadOS 17.2, the second major updates to the operating systems that launched in September and I reviewed on MacStories. iOS and iPadOS 17.2 revolve around two kinds of enhancements: there are a series of updates to built-in apps (mostly Messages, Music, and Camera) and various tweaks to widgets; then, there’s

On July 5, 2023, Meta launched Threads, the newest product in our family of apps, to an unprecedented success that saw it garner over 100 million sign ups in its first five days. A small, nimble te…

It was the blurst of times.

Today I wanted to take a few minutes to share some of my favorite little things you can do in macOS that are tucked out of the way and you might now know about. Whether you've been using a Mac for 30 years or you just bought one today, I

Pastebot’s history window. Last week, I walked myself through the process of realizing the power of macOS Defaults and how, over the two decades of modern macOS, Apple has addressed most of t…

Starting today, all Vimeo users, including those with free accounts, can upload Dolby Vision content to the platform.

The NameDrop feature is a long-overdue but welcome expansion of the NFC chip.

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…

Check out this Jupyter notebook!

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.

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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