I've been running chaos.social for nearly 5 years. A reflection.

In the State of the Word 2022 annual keynote address, WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg reflects on WordPress in 2022 and aspirations for the coming year.

All technologies bring opportunity and threat, but the scales are rarely balanced.

Powered by video platform Livebox, Tumblr Live is rolling out to US users on iOS and Android.

The feature is currently being rolled out to U.S. users with a global release coming soon.

I spent a fair amount on hardware this year, and most of it was very satisfying. Here are some of my favorites.

The previous version of this Service could only handle short options, like or combined short options like . It ignored long options like because I assumed that long options were verbose enough to

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During much of this pandemic, I’ve been using Fitness+ for yoga and strength training. Those workouts typically involve my iPad, Apple Watch, and usually my AirPods. While this use-case may s…

A new way to flex, or be flexed on?

Do writers need a particular, a more capable, a mechanical keyboard? William set off to the remote realms of the internet to figure it out. Luckily, he found his way back to share his findings with you.

To kick things off, I wanted to start with today's release of my new Mastodon shortcuts — I made deep links out of every section, a handle converter, and a quick way to use Movetodon.org repeatedly.I'm on the platform as @matthewcassinelli@mastodon.social, so you should definitely follow me there — for now, I'm still on Twitter trying to help people move off the platform:

Your favorite car might be near the end of its run.

Recently, I was silently lamenting the fact that I haven't been re-reading enough of the works of Jorge Luis Borges. So, to help remedy t...

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

Check out my collection of Mastodon shortcuts for interacting with your favorite instances. Be sure to get my Mastocuts bundle shortcut as well.

From Leon Vynehall's dynamic instalment for fabric presents to Juba's remarkable connect-the-dots of Afro-diasporic dance music, these are the mixes we had on repeat this year.

Tumblr will add support for ActivityPub, the open, decentralized social networking protocol that today is powering social networking software like Twitter alternative Mastodon, the Instagram-like Pixelfed, video streaming service PeerTube, and others.

A lot of people are giving Mastodon a shot.

As of today, MacStories is officially on Mastodon with its own server for each of its properties and team members. You can find us here: MacStories Accounts MacStories AppStories Club MacStories MacStories Team Accounts. Federico John Alex Silvia We’re not closing down our Twitter accounts (yet), but as you may have noticed, they haven’t been

No one cared who I was, even after I put on the mask.

"It is capitalism that incentivizes the degradation of our news media — disinvesting in local journalism, weaponizing social media to capture our attention and data, and devaluing media workers’ labor conditions."

After Google Reader disappeared, a lot of people drifted away from RSS readers. For many, social networks like Twitter filled the void, leading some observers to declare the death of RSS. However, a funny thing happened in the aftermath of Google Reader’s demise. New sync services arose, and RSS readers flourished on iOS, where competition

Twitter announced yet another version of Twitter Blue, which is launching tomorrow. And in all honesty, if this was announced 6 months ago, I'd be all over it. I mentioned this a few days ago, but it's now official. Twitter Blue will cost $8 a month if you sign up

pCJR · Introducing Red Pen: A Grammar Podcast   There’s a famous scene from the final season of The Wire—y’know, The One With the Newspeople—where cub reporter Alma Gutierrez, new to the show’s (thinly) fictionalized version of the Baltimore Sun, receives a crash course in the paper’s lofty lexical standards: “Gutierrez!” her editor shouts across […]/p

Apple announced today that later this month, it will update its Music app with a new feature called Apple Music Sing. According to Apple’s Oliver Schusser, its vice president of Apple Music and Beats: Apple Music’s lyrics experience is consistently one of the most popular features on our service. We already know our users all

Play “select” Ubisoft PC games via cloud streaming.

Over on YouTube, I streamed for 6 hours on Monday continuing my work on the Shortcuts Library logging process and sharing the shortcuts I'd built on-stream a few weeks prior. I did some experiments on the stream too, including watching Chris Lawley's videos (who appeared in the chat), testing music, and taking longer breaks.