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 ...

Imagine a world without platform lock-in, where no ban or billionaire could take down your social network. That’s what ActivityPub has planned.

Sit in the chair. Open the turbolift. Admire the LCARS.

On the day Sarah Oh got laid off from Twitter last November, her friend Gabor Cselle called with his condolences. Then he made her an offer: Would she help him build a better Twitter? Cselle wasn’t trying to reinvent the social media wheel. He just wanted to return to a simpler time on the ...

Part 2: Local Data Storage — Implementing a database backend in Rust for a Tauri...

Today is six months since Elon took over Twitter and began this bizarre speedrun of the content moderation learning curve in which he seems to repeatedly… not learn a damn thing. Over and over agai…

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...

I’ve been thinking about app scalability a lot lately – most recently in the context of TestFlight, which I find is incredibly frustrating to use, at best, and, on the Mac, often unusable. This isn’t a new problem for me, but I haven’t mentioned it much in the past because I’ve suspected that my experience

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

Right now, it’s really fun to hang out on Bluesky.

Forza Motorsport gets some impressive accessibility features.

What the default settings on the Apple Watch tell us about the move.

Interview with IMCDb.org’s longtime owner and operator to learn what makes this community-supported, car-focused database so unique in 2023

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

How to ask for help properly on IRC so that you get responses faster. Also relevant to forums and mailing lists

After an announcement months ago, Apple Savings is available for Apple Card users to transfer Daily Cash rewards into a high-yield savings account. Here's how to get started.

It's time to find a better way to store your dotfiles. Learn why you should start using a bare Git repository instead.

The CoMo Retro Game Con will take place Saturday, with hundreds revisiting their old Atari and Nintendo game days.

I’m liking outlining in Jesse Grossjean’s latest app, Bike , for my outlining needs. It’s a simple outliner that can save the content of its outlines to Bike files, OPML documents, or plain text. And

The decentralized social network has seen user numbers drop in recent months, but tech-savvy users remain passionate

In this blog post I walk through how to get scheduled send for Messages.app, or "schedule a text message to send later on iPhone", with no third-party apps required!

Work or play, separate tabs into different workspaces for more focus, and overhaul the browser’s look totally in Vivaldi’s new exciting update. Get it now on your desktop for a more personal and…

Welcome to this edition of Weekly Musings, where each Wednesday I share some thoughts about what's caught my interest in the last seven d...

Link to: https://www.macstories.net/reviews/fantastical-debuts-powerful-versatile-widgets-alongside-scribble-for-ipad/

He was the Air Force’s spy chief. Then he went straight to a firm selling spy gear. Now he’s in trouble.