Oscar Wilde said there are only two great tragedies in life: one is not getting what you want and the other, appropriate for today’s news, is getting it. Renault’s CEO Luca de Meo told journalists yesterday that beloved sports car brand Alpine is coming to the United States. He also told journalists that the brand […]

Apple apps that you download from Microsoft’s store.

“To code, or not to code, that is the question…” Indeed. And Shakespeare would have loved the drama that followed. This fiery debate around code versus

Now that we have that Oscars business behind us (mostly), let's raise our glasses to 2021, shall we? You'll live in our hearts as being "slightly less

Mastodon is amazing … so far. But can it hold up?

I bet you're wondering how we got here...

I’m creating a new multi-column Mastodon and Pleroma client app, Fedistar.

Of course, all these third-party apps will still have to compete with Mastodon's own app, which has been seeing its own improvements.

The fediverse is a breath of fresh air for writers and social media

We’ve searched the Forza Horizon 5 car list to find the fastest top speed, drag, and drifting cars in the entire game.

Inspired by and forked from kettle11's world builder prompt for ChatGPT, this is a bare bones adaptation to show how low can be the lift ...

Five years ago, I started a journey to build a better Mastodon client – one focused on performance and simplicity. And I did! Pinafore is the main Mastodon client I’ve used myself since I fir…

Thoughts on Twitter, Mastodon, and owning your data

If you can’t use Twitterific or Tweetbot, you’re not alone.

Saving articles and links from the Internet for later isn’t new, but it’s something that has drawn renewed interest from developers over the past year or so, including the makers of Matter, who are reexamining the approaches of the past through a modern lens. Apps like Instapaper and Read It Later, which became Pocket, pioneered

Mastodon’s success has somewhat taken its creator Eugen Rochko by surprise, but he's steadfast on maintaining its nonprofit nature.

Joel Esler, Sourcefire, Snort, Immunet, ClamAV, Apple, and Network Security. This is my blog.

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...

Everyone is salivating ATM about the idea of GPT competing with google search / giving GOOG competition ‘for the first time in 20 years’ — maybe… > But what I am personally more excited for / waiting for is for someone to seriously challenge gmail (which for me is a way higher lock-in product than google search)… with AI. All the startup attempts to dethrone gmail come ...

Here's a quick look at another trio of useful little tools for the Linux desktop that can help you quickly and efficiently tackle some si...

This morning, trawling the Computer Science sections of Arxiv, as I do most mornings, I came across a recent paper from the Federal University of Ceara in Brazil, offering a new Natural Language Processing framework to automate the summarization and extraction of core data from scientific papers. Since this is more or less what I […]

The 500+ mile electric cars have arrived.

Since Elon Musk took ownership of Twitter, some of its users have migrated to Mastodon, an alternative social platform.

What did I learn from a week on Mastodon? It’s… complicated

Twitter’s new owner has a vision that sounds a lot like a scrappy little social network that already exists, with one key difference.