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WorldWideWeb: A Simple Web Server Utility for Mac, iPad, and iPhone
Early today The Iconfactory released their latest app, a simple web server utility called WorldWideWeb. Solidly developer-focused in scope, the app serves files from a local directory to an automatically generated URL, making these files available to any device on your local network. While there are sure to be more inventive use cases for such
WorldWideWeb, Part II • The Breakroom
The Mac and Web have a long history together. From the very beginning, Mac OS X included the ability to run an Apache web server by clicking a Start button: About a decade ago, things started to change. Since then it’s gotten harder and harder to start a simple web server for testing HTML, CSS, […]
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Absurd Images From Thin Air 🖼
Xbox bringing new gaming features to Microsoft Edge
Better cloud streaming is coming to the Microsoft browser.
What Makes for a Good Blog? | 43 Folders
My friends at Six Apart recently asked me to make a list of blogs that I enjoy. I think they're planning to use it for their new Blogs.com project. Unfortunately, I'm late getting it to them (typical), but if it's still useful, I'll post it here in a day
The Lotus philosophy applied to blog design – The Jolly Teapot
Among the results: a new Blot template available to all.
Meta names new head of engineering as current leader steps aside
Another exec change atop the social media giant
Apple’s kind of a bank now
Apple Financing is handling the new Pay Later service.
The ugly economics behind Apple’s new Pay Later system
Apple’s BNPL service is at odds with the brand’s image.
The Art of the World Premiere
Trailers come and trailers go. Expectations rise and reality come crashing back as the game approaches release. Sometimes, the right…
Meet Rupi Kaur, Queen of the 'Instapoets'
With almost 2 million followers, Kaur has made her straightforward poetry about love, heartbreak and womanhood a global sensation
A Remark.as Meetup (another one!) - Events - Discuss Write.as
So this past Saturday, June. 4, 2022, there was the Remark.as Meetup, and it was a lot of fun to chat with the folks there, so we think it should be done again! This Saturday, June 11, 2022 at 1:00 PM CST is the next time we wanted to get together there, in the Remark.as Cafe in the chat box above the comments area. Nothing else needs be done, just show up and enter the chat and start meeting people! Fun to discuss things with other bloggers/writers. Hope to see/meet any/all of you there ...
Soldiers were given $4 for ‘invasion money’ on D-Day in 1944
Deb Kiner, pennlive.com On June 6, 1944, Howard Whitman, New York Daily News Correspondent representing the combined American press, described the soldiers boarding ships headed to the beaches of Normandy. Whitman said American soldiers were eager “to get on with the Big Show.” The Big Show was D-Day during World War II...
Better podcast data coming for iOS apps
Apple has fixed a headache for analytics; and TikTok is now connected to Headliner
Letter from the Editor: Electronic Music in the Age of Technological Evolution · Feature ⟋ RA
Announcing our BBC Radio 1 takeover and a series of future-focused topics launching across our platform in June.
Open-Tent Policy 🎪
Urban Commuter
Lessons learned from commuting to large cities
The Unmeasured Self — Hide the Eraser
I long resisted any sort of fitness trackers. I realized a long time ago that whenever I found out about the measure of a thing that just...
Victims of History | Federico Perelmuter
The novels of Argentine writer Antonio Di Benedetto capture the contradictions of life in Latin America in the middle of the 20th century.
The Almighty Gun | Rafia Zakaria
Worshipping at the altar of gun rights has turned the U.S. into a society that tolerates episodic rituals of child sacrifice.
Letter of Recommendation: Do Away With Letters of Recommendation
Such vetting requirements are at odds with so-called institutional diversity efforts.
Sheryl Sandberg calls it quits
She was Silicon Valley's most famous COO. Did she stay too long?
The Washington Post Needs to Get It Together
It’s melting down over retweets
Apple’s macOS Ventura leaves trusty 2015 MacBook Pro behind
Apple is no longer giving major updates to Macs pre-2017.
Automation Academy: Tips for Optimizing Your Shortcuts for macOS Monterey
The Macintosh Desktop Experience: A Pre-WWDC 2022 macOS Check-In
WWDC 2022 Keynote: By the Numbers
Whenever Apple holds a keynote event, the company shares a variety of numbers related to things like user counts for certain products, software performance improvements, and customer satisfaction. With the company announcing the future of key platforms like iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS, there was unsurprisingly a lot of data mentioned during today’s WWDC